We ran a small loan programme for four years. Repayment was 94 percent, which everyone told us was excellent. We closed it last year. The repayment number was hiding the thing that mattered. People were repaying on time by borrowing...
We have finished one of three. I want to write down what went wrong while it is fresh, because every project update I read only lists what went well. We sited the first borehole where the community leaders asked, not where the...
Asking seriously. I have watched several good organisations continue for years past the point of usefulness because stopping feels like failure. I would like to hear from anyone who chose to close.
Hindi was excellent. Tamil was good. Bhojpuri and Santali were poor enough to be unusable for anything official. This is not a complaint, it is a planning point. If your programme depends on a model, test it on the languages your people...