By Anne Gaboury and Mariol Quirin of Developpement Internationale Desjardins.
Towards the end of the 1990s, the rising interest in microcredit shed new light on the importance of using financial leverage for community development. Suddenly much attention was devoted to the impact, methodologies and strategies set up by microcredit operators who were highlighting the fact that poor clients could use credit as leverage to improve their living conditions. more...
FinScope engages a wide range of stakeholders (Stakeholder Task Force) with the aims of: - Insuring stakeholders' understanding of key issues such as sampling, questionnaire design and project management; - Securing "buy in" to maximise the chances of stakeholders actively using FinScope data and analysis; - Creating knowledge sharing and learning at local level to feed back into subsequent surveys. more...
FinScope engages a wide range of stakeholders (Stakeholder Task Force) with the aims of: - Insuring stakeholders' understanding of key issues such as sampling, questionnaire design and project management; - Securing "buy in" to maximise the chances of stakeholders actively using FinScope data and analysis; - Creating knowledge sharing and learning at local level to feed back into subsequent surveys. more...
The National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) is a second national agenda framework for putting the focus on poverty reduction high on the country’s development agenda. The NSGRP is informed by the aspirations of Tanzania’s Development Vision (Vision 2025) for high and shared growth, high quality livelihood, peace, stability and unity, good governance high quality education and international competitiveness. It is committed to the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) as internationally agreed targets for reducing poverty, hunger, diseases, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women by 2025. more...
By Marjaan Dursma; collaboration of SNV Tanzania, Hivos and FACET.
Poverty in East Africa - as in most other parts of the developing world - is mainly a rural phenomenon. With rural households comprising 80-90% of the poor, the importance of extending the frontier of sustainable microfinance beyond the urban areas is clear. The rural poor constitute both the greatest unmet need and the largest unserved market for financial services. However, to serve this market in a sustainable manner, barriers of costs and risks have to be overcome. This requires technological and methodological innovations. more...
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