The Terwilliger Center worked to create a vibrant marketplace of housing choices, which led to solutions that help low-income households improve their shelter in Peru, Kenya, and India. Building on MSA’s previous study about social norms in housing market systems, this second phase used an outcome harvest methodology to explore the links between women’s empowerment and housing finance, especially housing microfinance as provided by Habitat for Humanity’s partners in Kenya.

MSA carried out the study in Kenya, which includied designing the harvest, gathering data, and engaging change agents and people with first-hand experience to formulate outcome statements, substantiating outcomes through in-depth investigation, analyzing and interpreting findings in a full report, and providing support on developing the impact investing fund strategy based on study findings.