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 … sustainability of microfinance institutions cannot be achieved. This paper addresses these issues by looking into the financial … revealed will allow the reader to better understand how these cooperative microfinance institutions have finally achieved such …

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 …