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Appraisal Guide for Microfinance Institutions
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"This appraisal guide (and its companion resource manual and electronic spreadsheet, appraise.xls) incorporates the latest microfinance knowledge and best practices to form a comprehensive guide that analysts can use to evaluate microfinance institutions (MFIs). For the purposes of this guide, MFIs are defined as licensed and unlicensed financial institutions that include nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), commercial banks, credit unions and cooperatives, and agricultural, development, and postal savings banks. They range from specialized microfinance providers to programs within larger, multipurpose development organizations.
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Building Human Resources Capacity: Developing Competencies for Microfinance Institutions
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Building Human Resources Capacity: Developing Competencies for Microfinance Institutions"" shares several years of Women’s World Banking’s (WWB) hands-on experience and lessons learned in the use of competency-based human resource systems to build organizational capability for microfinance institutions.
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Combining Strengths: Synergies between Cluster Development and Microfinance
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The prime objective of this paper is to provide suggestions on how the provision of microfinance can be integrated into Cluster Development initiatives by guiding cluster development agents (CDAs) with limited background in finance on their role in improving poor cluster actors access to financial services.
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Commercial Banks and Microfinance: Online Lesson
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"The objective of this lesson is to identify different ways in which commercial banks can become involved in micro-finance and the reasons why they may choose not to become involved. The lesson is relevant not only to commercial bankers but to anyone involved in micro-finance; it will help them to understand the strengths and weaknesses of banks, and the reasons why banks respond to the micro-finance market in the ways they do."
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Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance – Microfinance Consensus Guidelines
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Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance"" seeks to raise awareness of good practice and improve the effectiveness of donors and investors’ microfinance operations. The guidelines draw on lessons learned during 30 years of support and translate them into practical operational guidance for staff.
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Microfinance and Forest-based Small-scale Enterprises
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This publication examines microfinance needs and constraints of small-scale enterprises. It analyses the different types of microfinance institutions, the role that they can play in the forest sector given the characteristics of small enterprises and forest communities, and their impact on local livelihoods and environment.
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Microfinance for Bankers: Training Guide
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This workshop is intended especially for decision-makers in commercial banks, but all banking staff may find it interesting to compare the conventional banking approach with the provision of micro financial services to those who normally have no access to financial services.
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Microfinance Poverty Assessment Tool
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This tool is a companion piece to the CGAP Appraisal Format. Donors should not use the poverty assessment tool without also conducting a larger institutional appraisal. The concept of poverty is complex and strongly influenced by local cultural and socioeconomic conditions. The poverty assessment approach presented in this manual supports a flexible definition of poverty that can be adapted to fit local perceptions and conditions of poverty.
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Microfinance, rural livelihoods, and women's empowerment in Uganda
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This book tackles the empowerment evaluation of microfinance policy. In this way, it shows that, despite microfinance being a catalyst for women's empowerment, it is unable to meet people-desired poverty reduction. There is, therefore, a call for engendering the microfinance industry.
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Tapping the Financial Markets for Microfinance
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Tapping the Financial Markets for Microfinance"" is a white paper commissioned by Grameen Foundation USA that explores the opportunities and challenges microfinance institutions (MFIs) face in tapping capital markets for financing their growth. The paper details case studies of recent successful capital market transactions and identifies barriers to replicating these deals more widely. It was written for a broad audience, including investors, microfinance stakeholders, and managers, to introduce issues necessary to attracting commercial investment.
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