Ana María Blanco de Avedaño is a mother of four daughters who lives in Bogotá, Colombia. In 1988, she got a job as a 'house mother' with the Colombian Institute of Family Well-Being and started a kindergarten and daycare center. In 1993, she decided to move the preschool into her home, but she had no money to pay for the remodeling that was needed or to buy furniture for the children. At this time she heard about WWB affiliate CMM-Colombia. Based in Bogotá, CMM-Colombia has more than 47,000 more...
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This paper was commissioned by the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 2006. The paper focuses on responses of microfinance institutions (MFIs) in coping with the losses that their clients face when human conflicts, disasters of nature, and other crises strike.
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This paper describes the intangible benefits of microfinance. Essentially this paper 1) Looks at social mobilization, empowerment, stabilization, peace-building and solidarity, through social capital enhancement; 2) It reviews literature and draws lessons from conflicts in nine countries in Asia and the Pacific; 3) Emphasizes microfinance experiments in Afghanistan, Papua New Guinea, Sri Lanka and Timor Leste.
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This presentation discusses scaling up issues in microfinance. It states that microfinance can be made available to more number of poor people by increasing the number of service points at which they can utilize financial services.
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This paper discuses the microfinance scenario in Pakistan. It describes the history, outreach, performance and sustainability of microfinance in the country.
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This issue paper reviews the existing empirical studies on the relevance of agriculture on livelihoods of people and contrasts it with the approach of the local government and aid agencies. The paper also examines how rehabilitation effort and poppy trade has shaped the relationship between aid agencies and the farmers. It concludes by recommending a more pragmatic and principled approach to efforts for agriculture development and its impact on livelihoods
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This case study examines how the entry of microcredit into rural and household economies in Afghanistan affects informal credit relations and livelihood outcomes through effects on the overall village economy.
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