'Sa-Dhan’s mission is to build the field of community development finance in India to help its member and associate institutions to better serve low-income households, particularly women, in both rural and urban India, in their quest for establishing stable livelihoods and improving quality of life. Founded as the Association of Community Development Finance Institutions by SEWA Bank, BASIX, Dhan Foundation, FWWB, MYRADA, RGVN, SHARE and PRADAN in 1999, Sa-Dhan's membership has grown to 229 wi more...
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This paper focuses on smaller banks or microfinance institutions that face a much higher cost-of-service delivery because of the smaller transaction values they handle and the likely more remote and dispersed location of at least some of their customers. The opportunity seems particularly great for them, but implementation challenges also loom larger because of their small scale.
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This Occasional Paper provides insight and guidance on the various ownership-related issues that an NGO MFI may face when transforming into a for-profit institution. It addresses topics such as (i) possible restrictions on the transfer of assets (including grant funds) by the NGO to the transformed institution, (ii) legal limits on an NGO's ownership of the transformed institution, (iii) the issuance of shares in the transformed institution to management, employees and other stakeholders and (iv more...
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Micro-credit expert examines gender perspectives on access to finance and poverty alleviation.
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A non-government organization was launched Monday which will make public the interest rates charged by microfinance lenders. [Nobel Peace Prize winner] Muhammad Yunus… launched MicroFinance Transparency in Bali where Microcredit Summit Campaign, a Washington, DC-based network of more than 3,600 of the world's leading institutions providing tiny loans to 133 million poor clients, mostly in developing nations, has begun a three-day conference
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A summary of principles from World education Australia recognized as good practice in delivering microfinance services.
A wide variety of methods have been used to reach these low-income communities with appropriate and affordable services, reflecting the diversity of contexts and environments in which these services are provided.
While there are no specific methods which are appropriate in every context, these principles are common to the range of institutions involved in the delivery of more...
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Grameen Foundation CEO Alex Counts outlines a new vision of microfinance as a platform, not a product; one that relies on high volumes, not high margins, and that uses limits on private benefit, holistic performance standards, and third-party certification.
Counts redefines the dichotomy between commercial microfinance and pro-poor microfinance to propose a new model that, he argues, could make microfinance both more relevant to the world's poor and more profitable in the long term.
He als more...
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