whythawk ratings: measuring effective development

1. Electricity Redux - Electricity Quotas Will Work About As Well As Race Quotas
(Analysis/Analysis)

...tricity per month to qualifying homes. 30% of electricity subscribers receive this subsidy. Price provides feedback. If the petrol price rises then we try to drive less. If there are water shortage...

2. Leveraging your good name; the power of a positive credit rating
(Analysis/Analysis)

...y.  Good behaviour is automatically rewarded while bad behaviour is punished.  There is a natural feedback loop – call karma if you like. The Internet, clearly, has a long way to go b...

3. Development organisations need to engage with ratings agencies
(Analysis/Analysis)

...’t have the capacity to invest wisely but would certainly still spend.  Neither would there be a feedback mechanism that would result in an ever-improving standard of investments and produc...

4. How do we prepare nonprofit organisations for the long term?
(Analysis/Analysis)

... which any ratings system should encourage. Financial controls engender discipline and awareness and client feedback encourages a level of service delivery that creates its own demand. How so? Enterpr...

5. The lack of feedback and accountability is fatal to aid effectiveness
(Analysis/Analysis)

... you probably wouldn’t feel as safe. Everywhere in the commercial sector there are external means of feedback to hold those responsible accountable for their actions.  Financial auditors w...

6. The poor have never had it so good ... now what?
(Analysis/Analysis)

...ruption, oligarchs and dramatic differences between rich and poor.  It requires continual scrutiny and feedback. In this new year of 2007 let us start a conversation about development.  In t...

7. 5 What are the specific things that Whythawk measures?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...e who perform the service of the organisation the level of oversight and organisation of the organisation feedback from beneficiaries and clients of the organisation against objective results ...

8. The Feedback Loop
(Analysis/Analysis)

All biological systems require a mixture of measurement and feedback. When feedback breaks down the result is disease. Diabetes is the result of the body’s inability to control the appropriate l

9. 1 Why are development ratings necessary?
(FAQs/Rating FAQs)

...y economic systems, the central ideas of development still rely on instinct rather than quantitive data and feedback. Many of the funding organisations battle to give away sufficient money each year t...

10. Our Analysts
(Static Content)

...ment of his original idea for implementation at such a large scale.  He further wrote the training and feedback manuals to be used in the event and project managed the event. More diverse project...

11. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...roducts and services aimed at the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.  Whythawk generates meaningful feedback by rating social development organisations in terms of accountability and effective...

12. Ratings Methodology
(Static Content)

...e stages are divided into three categories: administrative for internal purposes, sector specific for wider feedback, and responses used for the development of ratings criteria. Scores for each criter...

13. Our Analysts
(Static Content)

...ment of his original idea for implementation at such a large scale.  He further wrote the training and feedback manuals to be used in the event and project managed the event. More diverse project...

14. Why Use Whythawk
(Static Content)

...roducts and services aimed at the fortune at the bottom of the pyramid.  Whythawk generates meaningful feedback by rating social development organisations in terms of accountability and effective...

15. Ratings Methodology
(Static Content)

...e stages are divided into three categories: administrative for internal purposes, sector specific for wider feedback, and responses used for the development of ratings criteria. Scores for each criter...