Founder And Director
Imp-Act Consortium
Founder and Director of Imp-Act Consortium (www.Imp-Act.org), a group of 12 organisations in 10 countries promoting the need to manage social performance in microfinance. Anton led the transition of Imp-Act from an action-research programme to a Consortium of 9 practitioner-based organisations: CARD (MFI, Philippines), Microfinance Council of the Philippines (national microfinance network), Microfinance Centre for Eastern Europe (regional network), Grameen Foundation USA (international non-profit), Freedom from Hunger (USA, international non-profit), EDA rural systems (India, international research, training and consultancy), CRS/MISION (Latin America, international non-profit), ProMujer International (Latin America, international microfinance network). Imp-Act supports and promotes the management of social performance in microfinance, providing practical lessons for practice and public policy. Imp-Act developed the framework and principles taken up by international social performance task force and forming the basis of Universal Standards adopted by microfinance industry, commercial social rating offering and international information exchange platform, the MiX. The Consortium’s Practice Guide, Putting the ‘Social’ into performance management’ has been downloaded more than 50,000 times since its launch in December 2008, and is available in Spanish, French, Russian and Arabic and thanks to the work of a Tanzanian consultant is now also in Swahili.