How a micro project works?

The main steps involved are:

A poor family (potential beneficiary) recognizes and understands their own needs to help themselves out of poverty.

A micro micro-project idea is formulated micro-project to address this need. Micro-projects are an activity, the budget required; the people involved often a small self help group and the output to be achieved.

This is often only after discussion with facilitators from small local NGOs known as Community Facilitation Partners (CFP).

The CFP perform a poverty assessment of the potential beneficiaries (for example income per family member is less than US$2 per day (a primary UN Millennium Development Goal (MDG) target for poor families). CFPs also validate the integrity, viability and potential of the micro-project.

If the micro-project passes the previous stage, the facilitator assists the potential beneficiaries to describe and cost the micro-project and put it on the MicroAid Projects website using the NGO's micro-computers and Internet links.

A donor sees the micro-project on the MicroAid Projects web site http://www.microaid.org and chooses to sponsor it by making an online donation. From this point on, the donor can track the progress of the transfer of funds, initiation and completion of the micro-project on the MicroAid Projects website.

The funds are transferred to the beneficiaries, who carry out the activities of the micro-project and gain a long term benefit from what they learn.

The beneficiaries write a report on the success of the project, which can be viewed online by the donor.