In 1994 the government of Zambia formulated the Agricultural Credit Management Programme to promote a network of private traders capable to take over the business of financing and delivering inputs to small-scale farmers, improving food security and maintaining political support for the...

Monitoring social performance is most useful when it reveals variation in both outreach and impact over time and between clients. Data from a village banking programme is used to compare two methods for assessing each. On poverty outreach, the authors favour monitoring of proxy indicators for...