The First MicrofinanceBank Ltd (FMFB) is the result of the transformation of the microfinance program of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP), with more than twenty years of experience, into a separate, specialised microfinance bank. In 1996, the AKRSP started to streamline its microfinance program separately, with the objective of creating a separate entity, capable of mobilising savings. FMBL has benefited from the long experience and transfer of key employees and technologies from AKRSP more...
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The NGO Stichting Bakens Verzet (“Another Way”) of the Netherlands promotes a Model for self-financing, ecological, sustainable, local integrated development projects for the world’s poor. This work is in the public domain. It can be accessed, downloaded from website www.flowman.nl and used free of charge. The website has been further enriched by a series of four Powerpoint® Presentations in English and French which can be directly accessed from the homepage.The first presentation www.flo more...
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The Alliance responds to the need and demand for an inclusive global forum and platform for cross-sectoral policy dialogue on the use of ICT for enhancing the achievement of internationally agreed development goals, notably reduction of poverty.
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The Africa-Brazil Cooperation Programme on Social Development promotes technical exchanges between Brazil and African countries. Currently, twenty-six delegates from Angola, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Tanzania, the African Union, NEPAD and AfDB are participating in a Study Tour in Brazil.
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The next CGAP/MFMI training course for funders 'Building Inclusive Financial Systems: How Can Funders Make a Difference?' will be held in Kigali, Rwanda, November 10-14, 2008. The course will be held in French.
This one-of-a-kind course is tailored specifically to donors, investors, and policymakers interested in keeping up with the rapidly evolving world of microfinance while gaining practical skills in microfinance appraisal and performance-based management. Join over 480 participants from more...
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Grant Amount: $465,000 over three years to expand its operations in Latin America and East Africa to foster environment conservation and grassroots economic development
Award Year: 2005. SASE Awards/Skoll Foundation. William Foote was an investment banker during the Latin American growth years of the early 1990s. After the peso was devalued in 1994, he spent two years in rural Mexico studying and writing about the financial crisis and its effects on rural people and the environment. He founded more...
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Small grassroots businesses, such as coffee farmer cooperatives and artisan associations are engines for sustainable development and poverty alleviation in rural communities in the developing world. Considered too small and risky for mainstream banks and too large for microfinance, these grassroots businesses are caught in the “missing middle”; they cannot access the capital they need to grow and sustain their operations.
Root Capital addresses this market failure through an innovative lend more...
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