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Prodem Fondo Financiero Privado: Providing rural Bolivians with access to banking
Prodem’s automated teller network, using smart card technology and voice applications,
enables rural Bolivians to overcome language and literacy barriers to reliably save their
money and gain access to loans. While urban areas have easy access to banks and
savings accounts, the vast majority of Bolivia’s population has been unable to use
banking services. Forty percent of Bolivia’s population, a multilingual society, resides in
rural areas, with an illiteracy rate of 29 percent.
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Read The Development Gateway Special Report - "Information Society: The Next Steps."
>What Works: PRODEM FFP'S Multilingual Smart ATMs For Microfinance
>Increasing Access to Microfinance Using Information and Communications Technologies
>Microfinance Market Niches and Client Profiles in Bolivia
>Lessons from the Field: ICTs in Microfinance
December 5, 2005
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Microfinance and Rural Development
Rural areas are often forgotten by the financial institutions because of the difficulty to reach the clients and because of their extreme poverty. These documents focus on the great challenges of reaching rural areas by financial organisations or institutions. They explore the way products and services have to be adjusted, they explain the specific risks encountered in developing microfinance in rural zones. This collection of documents is based on various concrete cases that help to understand more...
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>Rural Financial Services through State Banks
>Managing Risks and Designing Products for Agricultural Microfinance: Features of an Emerging Model
>Technical Assistance to the Republic of Philippines for preparing the microfinance for rural development project
>Small Farmers in Mozambique Access Credit and Markets by Forming Associations with Assistance from CLUSA
>Financing Agricultural Term Investments
>Challenges in Rural Development and Poverty Alleviation in Eastern and Southern Africa: The Role of Civil Society and Development Institutions
>Rural Development: A Reference Framework
>Rural Financial Services: Implementing the Bank's Strategy to Reach the Rural Poor
October 20, 2005
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Information Society: ICT and Microfinance
New information and communication technologies (ICT) have transformed recent approaches to development on Microfinance Institutions and operations worldwide. This collection of papers and reports explores issues such as the benefits of ICTs for MFIs, how MFIs and the poorest countries could take advantage of the new technologies, and, more specifically, the strategies which can be implemented by using the expansion of information society.

These papers are about implementing efficient stra more...
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>Information Technology as a strategic tool for Microfinance in Africa
>ICT Policy and Rural Poor: Infrastructure and Initiatives
>Increasing Access to Microfinance Using Information and Communications Technologies
>Funding Microfinance Technology
>Micro-finance and ICTs: Exploring Mutual Benefits and Synergy
>Lessons from the Field: ICTs in Microfinance
>IT can be Bangladesh's Super Highway to Prosperity
>Relevance and Priorities of ICT for Women in Rural Communities: A Case Study from Nigeria
>New dgSpecial Report-- Information Society: The Next Steps
September 19, 2005
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Microfinance in West Africa
Worldwide, to develop efficiently and effectively a microfinance institution, proposed products and services must suit with the needs and expectations of the targeted clients, depending on the region they live in and the standard of living they have. This highlight focuses on Microfinance in West Africa. The documents focus on the characteristics of microentrepeneurs and microcredit in West Africa, on the saving mechanisms usually used by the poorest in this region, on the innovations which have more...
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>Rural Savings Mobilization in West Africa:Guard Against Shocks or Build an Asset Base?
>A Survey of Microenterprise in Urban French West Africa
>Mr. Charles Konan Banny, Governor, Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO), and Advisor for the International Year of Microcredit: Q&A on the Importance of Microfinance at the BCEAO
>The Role of Microfinance in African Development and the Commission for Africa
>Savings Products and Services in the Informal Sector and Microfinance Institutions in West Africa: The Case of Mali and Benin
>Microfinance, agricultural banks, commercial banks: what potential partnerships could finance family agriculture?
>Microfinance Regulation in Benin: Implications of the PARMEC -Law for Development and Performance of the Industry
September 5, 2005
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Financial Reporting
The great expansion of the Microfinance sector has led to a more systematic focus on the financial viability and health of MFIs and a greater need to prove transparency of such institutions to keep on attracting investments. A range of tools, as financial indicators and statements, have been developed in order to measure MFIs financial performance, efficiency and sustainability. This collection of papers will provide some keys and guidelines relating to this issue.

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>New Tools for Assessing Financial System Soundness
>Performance Indicators for Microfinance Institutions
>Definitions of Selected Financial Terms Ratios and Adjustments for Microfinance
>Disclosure Guidelines for Financial Reporting by Microfinancial Institutions
>Focus on Financial Transparency: Building the Infrastructure of a Microfinance Industry.
>Financial Transparency: A Glossary of Terms
>Resource for Microfinance Assessments
August 22, 2005
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Aid Harmonization
In the framework of the Development Millennium Goals, i.e., alleviating poverty by 2015, fostering and maximizing the effectiveness of the donors that support financial services for the poorest turns out to be a crucial step. Moreover, the harmonization of aid delivered by the donors, the private sector, the development state and civil society is necessary in order to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their support. This collection of documents will provide guidelines to support the do more...
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>Bishkek Regional Workshop on Harmonization, Alignment, and Managing for Development Results
>Canada Making a Difference in the World: a Policy Statement on Strengthening Aid Effectiveness
>The Donors role as Catalysts
>Aid Effectiveness Initiative: Microfinance Donor Peer Reviews
>Maximizing Aid Effectiveness in Microfinance: Examples from the Field
>Aid for the Poorest? The distribution and maldistribution of international development assistance
>How Donors Can Help Build Pro-Poor Financial Systems (Donor Brief No. 17)
>Mobilising Resources for the Millennium Development Goals
>DG Special Report: Aid Harmonization: What Will It Take to Meet the MDGs?
August 8, 2005
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Marketing / Outreach
The strategic marketing and the operational marketing are fields that the institutions of microfinance have begun to develop more and more. Reaching a targeted clientele and responding most effectively its needs thanks to appropriate tools are not any more the privilege of the big companies. These some articles give the strategic orientations for the marketing development of the MFIs so that they manage to know, to analyze and to respond the specific needs of their clientele. Developing specific more...
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>Making Microfinance More Client- Led
>Expanding Micro credit Outreach to Reach: The Millennium Development Goal - Some Issues for Attention
>Microfinance Outreach to the Poorest: A Realistic Objective?
>Market Research and Client-Responsive Product Development
>Le Marketing au service des IMF
>Marketing in Microfinance Institutions
>Entering New Markets: How Market Research Can Inform Product Development
>Strategic Marketing for Microfinance Institutions
July 27, 2005
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Impact Assessment Methodologies
Analyzing the impact of microfinance interventions is especially important if the interventions are ultimately aimed at poverty reduction. In the most generic sense, impact analysis is any process that seeks to determine if an intervention has had the desired outcome. In the growing literature on microfinance impact assessment, the consensus seems to be that multiple methods as opposed to a single method must be used and that the key is to tap the breadth of quantitative approach and the depth more...
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>Impact Assessment of Microfinance Towards a New Protocol For Collection and Analysis of Qualitative Data
>The use of control groups in impact assessments for microfinance
>Microfinance Impact Assessments: The Perils of Using New Members as a Control Group
>Doing impact assessments
>Comment mesurer la transformation : Évaluation et amélioration de l'impact du Microcrédit?
>Learning from Clients: Assessment Tools for Microfinance Practitioners
>Learning to Use Cost-Effective Impact Measurement Tools
>From Event to Process: Current Trends in Microfinance Impact Assessment
>Measuring Transformation: Assessing and Improving the Impact of Microcredit PART III
>The Social Impact of Microfinance and How to Measure It
>Impact of Microfinance on Poverty Alleviation: What Does Emerging Evidence Indicate?
>Impact Assessment Methodologies for Microfinance: Theory, Experience and Better Practice
April 13, 2005
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Saving Services
Savings Mobilization has long been a controversial issue in microfinance. In recent years there has been increasing awareness among policymakers and practitioners that low-income clients can and do save, and many of the largest, most sustainable institutions in microfinance rely heavily on savings mobilization (Bank Rakyat Indonesia and ASA in Bangladesh are well-known examples).

Often neglected in microfinance, deposits provide a highly valued service to the world's poor who seldom have rel more...
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>Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals
>Savings in the Context of Microfinance - State of Knowledge
>The Provision of Microfinance Services by Savings Banks: Selected Experiences from Africa, Asia and Latin America
>Savings Led Microfinance and the Rural Poor
>The Microfinance Experience with Savings Mobilization
>Savings mobilisation in microfinance institutions
>Savings Mobilisation to Micro-Finance: A Historical Perspective on the Zimbabwe Savings Development Movement
>Savings and the Poor in Zimbabwe: What It Means for MicroFinance Institutions
>Use and Impact of Savings Services Among the Poor in Uganda
>Introducing Savings into a MicroCredit Institution – Lessons from ASA
>Evolution of Savings Products at ASA
March 11, 2005
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How to attract Foreign Investment, and How to Make the Best Use of It ?
The global flow of foreign investments has reached record levels in recent years, expanding at a faster rate than trade and serving as the most important form of capital inflow into developing countries. Foreign investors have also played an important role in microfinance; it is estimated that foreign investors have allocated roughly US$1.9 billion in commercial and quasi-commercial investment in microfinance institutions, filling an important market gap in many developing countries.



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>A Multilateral Donor Triumphs Over Disbursement Pressure: The Story of Microfinance at Banco Do Nordeste in Brazil
>Blue Orchard Finance SA
>Unitus- Global Microfinance Accelerator
>International Micro Investitionen AG (IMI)
>DEG - German Investment and Development Company
>MicroVest
>Foreign Investment in Microfinance: Debt and Equity from Quasi-Commercial Investors
>Microfinance Investment Funds :Objectives, Players, Potential
>Microfinance Investment Funds: Leveraging Private Capital for Economic Growth and Poverty Alleviation (Governance, Transparency, and Account
>Microfinance Investment Funds: Looking Ahead
>The Market for Microfinance Foreign Investment: Opportunities and Challenges
>The Financial Deepening Challenge Fund (FDCF)
>The Multilateral Investment Fund (MIF)
>AfriCap Microfinance Fund (AfriCap)
>See Also: the Development Gateway Special Report on Foreign Investment: Who Gains?
>International Investment Funds: Mobilizing Investors Towards Microfinance
>Public and Private Investments in Microfinance: A look at guarantee instruments
>Microfinance and Socially Responsible Investment in Latin America
>Social Fund Support of Microfinance: A Review of Implementation Experience
>Creating Autonomous National and Sub-Regional Microcredit Funds
January 17, 2005
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