Research Agenda

The research agenda is ESR Center's method for establishing best practices through continual feedback and improvement that will facilitate the economic self-reliance for millions of families around the world.

• Create an Economic Self-Reliance Model:

  Our goal is to create an economic self-reliance model to provide our partners with a model that can help each organization most effectively accomplish its mission.
  

• Enhance the Effectiveness of Practitioner Organizations:

  Because the ESR Center is housed in the Management School at Brigham Young University, we have experienced faculty and students who can help practitioners to become more effective and efficient as an organization.
  

• Promote Interventions with Best ESR Impacts:

  We have experience with numerous forms of interventions including microenterprise, microfranchising, enterprise education, and best business practices. We seek to promote those interventions that will provide the greatest impact on the greatest number of economically vulnerable families.
  

• Measure Success At Family Level:

  We are working with other organizations to locate outcome measurement tools that allow our practitioner partners to constantly improve their interventions. This, in turn, also helps us to understand the economic self-reliance model better and provide input into improving the model as well.