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June 19, 2013 - 2:34am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
India: "MFI delinquencies down 33% in last 6 months: Equifax"
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June 14, 2013 - 3:23pm
from BRAC Blog
This post first appeared on HuffingtonPost.com.
Whenever we think about health services, the things that typically come to mind are doctors, paramedics, ...
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June 11, 2013 - 2:33pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
Prof. Badr El Din A. Ibrahim.
Islamic microfinance- challenges and potentials.
In his article published in CGAP website Mohammed Khaled once asked a valid question: why Islamic microfinance cannot provide what is required by Muslims, as conventional microfinance?. It is ture that ways of conventional microfinance do not meet Islamic countries’ requirements. Moreover, studies conducted few years back shows that about only 2 percent of the microfinance loans ...
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June 11, 2013 - 2:31pm
from Microfinance Africa
Prof. Badr El Din A. Ibrahim.
Islamic microfinance- challenges and potentials.
In his article published in CGAP website Mohammed Khaled once asked a valid question: why Islamic microfinance cannot provide what is required by Muslims, as conventional microfinance?. It is ture ...
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June 10, 2013 - 12:25pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
North Darfur has announced its total commitment to empowering rural women through microfinance programmes as an ideal way of expanding production in the state.
Abu Daoud Suleiman, the North Darfur state Minister for Finance, Economy and Civil Service, expressed readiness to provide all facilities for rural women to enable them to get micro finance funds for their projects, adding that the ministry has opened a special window for women at the micro finance institution in recognition ...
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June 10, 2013 - 12:23pm
from Microfinance Africa
North Darfur has announced its total commitment to empowering rural women through microfinance programmes as an ideal way of expanding production in the state.
Abu Daoud Suleiman, the North Darfur state Minister for Finance, Economy and Civil Service, expressed readiness to provide all facilities for ...
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June 10, 2013 - 2:50am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Swaziland: "54 per cent has no access to financial products"
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June 4, 2013 - 5:03am
from MicroCapital
In partnership with Google, a US-based provider of technology products and services, Equity Bank, a private bank based in Kenya, has announced that the bank will be offering a new cashless payment card system called BebaPay, which is expected to enable users to pay bus fares without the use of cash. Commuters will be able to pay bus fares by tapping their BebaPay card on a card reader, which is expected to make it easier to commuters to transact with operators. Bus operators are expected ...
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June 3, 2013 - 10:56pm
from MicroCapital
The International Finance Corporation (IFC), a member of the US-based World Bank Group, has formed an agreement with Advans Ghana Savings and Loans, a non-bank financial institution and member of Luxembourg’s Advans Group, to improve access to the Business Edge training program in Ghana. [1]
The Business Edge program trains entrepreneurs operating small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) regarding how to increasing their management capacity, efficiency and ...
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June 3, 2013 - 2:26pm
from CGAP Microfinance Blog
In many countries with large numbers of poor Muslims, Sharia-compliant microfinance is one among many interventions designed to bring citizens into the financial mainstream.This is not the case in Sudan. Here, Sharia-compliant microfinance is the government-mandated rule, not the exception. That’s because the country’s banking system went fully Islamic in the 1980s, legislating Sharia principles like risk-sharing, leasing, and interest-free “loans.”
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May 30, 2013 - 8:40am
from Mobile Money for the Unbanked
Great to hear that the second funding round of the Strategic Partnerships stream of The Girls’ Education Challenge is now open. As you may have read previously, this Challenge will provide match-funding to support strategic partnerships that have ...
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May 30, 2013 - 5:01am
from MicroCapital
The government of Australia has committed a donation of USD 6.15 million to support the United Nations Development Cooperation Forum (UNDCF) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in their joint programme titled “Making Access to Finance More Inclusive for Poor People” (MAFIPP), which is implemented by the Bank of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (BLPDR), the central bank of Laos, with the aim of improving poor rural household access to a variety of financial services. MAFIPP ...
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May 24, 2013 - 1:41pm
from Microfinance Nigeria
By Stephen Ssenkaaba, New Vision
A LADDER can only mean one thing: Progress. That is why the Stromme Foundation recently chose this important tool to symbolize their movetowards greater heights in their activities to improve the lives of the poor in Uganda. “We build ladders. Unique, very special ladders. On these ladders people climb to a ...
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May 24, 2013 - 1:41pm
from Microfinance Africa
By Stephen Ssenkaaba, New Vision
A LADDER can only mean one thing: Progress. That is why the Stromme Foundation recently chose this important ...
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May 24, 2013 - 1:05pm
from MicroCapital
Kenyan farmers are using mobile agriculture applications to improve market information such as M-Farm, iCow, Kilimo Salama, M-Pesa and M-Shwari. These agri-technological innovations aim to offer either increased transparency or the extension of financial services to farmers. [1]
M-Farm was developed in 2011 during a mobile start-up competition organized by HumanIPO, an African technology news website, as a transparency tool for farmers [2]. The application ...
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May 13, 2013 - 1:29am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
"Tanzania: NMB Supports Secondary Schools in Igunga"
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May 8, 2013 - 6:30am
from AidData: The First Tranche
China has been a major supplier of development finance and investment to Sudan since the mid- to late-1990s, when the authorities in Khartoum sought strategic partnerships with Asian governments to circumvent Western sanctions. Chinese support has helped ensure that the Sudanese government can extract and export oil. China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) was one of the largest investors in Sudan’s dormant oil industry, helping to build production facilities and a 1,506 km oil ...
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May 8, 2013 - 2:30am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Sudan: "Women's Union Finances Rural Women"
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May 8, 2013 - 2:25am
from Microfinance Gateway News & Opinion
Sudan: "Women's Union Finances Rural Women"
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May 7, 2013 - 6:36pm
from BRAC Blog
This is Moyna. Living in Dhaka’s Kunipara slum, her community health promoter microfranchise covers around 200 households. She sells basic health services as well as a range of products at affordable prices for her neighbors.
The BRAC Birthing Kit, for example, she purchases wholesale from a BRAC social enterprise at 42 cents ...
