Marcia Odell is the Director of WORTH, an award winning savings-led women’s empowerment programme combining literacy, business and banking. After overseeing implementation of the first WORTH program in Nepal, Ms. Odell supported the launch of WORTH in seven other countries–Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia, Zambia, the DRC and Cambodia. She is now developing the social franchising of WORTH. Ms. Odell has a Ph.D. from Cornell in economic history and an MBA from UNH’s Whittemore School of Business and Economics. With 25 years of programme management experience, she has a special interest in gender issues and facilitating community change through the Appreciative Inquiry approach.

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