Economic Empowerment
Financial inclusion, livelihoods and workforce programs often need to understand changes that happen over months or years. Formal evaluations remain important, but a lot can happen between those measurement points. A savings group may stop meeting, a trainee may struggle to find work, a participant may encounter a barrier to opening an account, or a small business may change direction. Poket gives participants, micro-entrepreneurs, small business owners, savings-group leads, enumerators, field staff, community members and community facilitators another way to report those experiences as they happen.
How Poket works
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Your team creates surveys and data collection workflows through the Poket Portal. These might cover savings-group activity, training attendance and experience, access barriers, business progress, financial inclusion, employment outcomes or participant feedback. Participants, savings-group leads, trainees, enumerators, field staff, community members and community facilitators can submit information through the mobile application. Responses can include structured surveys, photos, GPS locations and voice notes, and the app can work offline.
Programs can also configure incentives where appropriate. Depending on the project, these could include points, gift cards, mobile-money-related rewards or other incentives selected by the program. Poket can track participation and reward activity, while the actual transfer or fulfilment can be handled by the program or its payment provider. Programs can also use Poket to send reminders, training materials, opportunities, feedback and other resources back to participants. Submissions can be reviewed in the Portal, and Poket can customize AI-assisted verification or qualitative-data workflows depending on the project.
What can program teams see?
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Poket can help teams track participation and activity across groups, cohorts and locations. This can include geographic coverage, participant engagement, recurring survey results, reported barriers and qualitative feedback.
Voice responses can also be transcribed to make it easier to understand the reasons behind changes in participation or outcomes.
What teams can use Poket for
Savings-group and VSLA monitoring
Financial inclusion and financial-access programs
Participant feedback on livelihoods programs
Workforce-readiness and vocational-training programs
Employment-pathway monitoring
Entrepreneurship and small-business programs
Women’s economic empowerment initiatives
Education and skills-development programs
Rehabilitation, re-entry and job-readiness programs
Reward and incentive tracking
Participant recruitment and engagement workflows
Monitoring barriers to participation
Sharing opportunities, reminders and resources back to participants
