more appropriate to remote and marginal areas, there is little to further differentiate rural and urban microfinance …

The Uganda Microfinance Union (UMU) has become one of Uganda's leading microfinance institutions. It began four years …

Uganda, where 85 % of the population live in rural areas, has experienced a rapid rise of rural and microfinance over …-supported microfinance institutions (MFIs), through group lending up to a ceiling, have provided start-up finance, particularly for women … agriculture and microfinance, and effective agency coordination, the most effective means of donor assistance are equity …

sustainable financial services to the rural poor. The financial technology employed by any microfinance institution in order to …, savings and insurance products, and the capability to regularly produce innovations, outreach to the poor and ultimately … sustainability of microfinance institutions cannot be achieved. This paper addresses these issues by looking into the financial …

Over the last decade, Nepal has turned into a microfinance laboratory, exploring various approaches to provide … microfinance NGOs. Rural Finance Nepal (RUFIN) is a joint Nepali-German project, implemented by the Agricultural Development Bank … Bank of Nepal (ADBN). In 1975 it started the Small Farmer Development Program (SFDP), the "motherʺ of all microfinance …

That has to be uppermost in our minds as we think about what microfinance means. For IFAD, the finance issue is crucial … take a wide variety of forms, from intense training of qualifying microfinance institutions, so they may become viable … means of reducing poverty and understand the challenges that microfinance and microfinance institutions must confront. From …