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Wilberforce Kisamba Mugerwa, also Wilberforce Kisamba-Mugerwa, (5 July 1945 – 7 January 2021) was a Ugandan agricultural economist, politician and academic, who served as the chairman of the Uganda Microfinance Support Center, a government-owned company established in 2001, that manages micro credit programs in Uganda, funded by the African Development Bank, Islamic Development Bank and the ...
Of 446 microfinance institutions worldwide that it was tracking at the end of 2005, 39 lent only through this method, while another 205 used a mix of solidarity and individual lending. The average loan balance outstanding at solidarity lenders was $109 (19% of local gross national income ), compared to $1,024 (61% of local gross national income ...
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Opportunity International Canada is the lead Support Member in Honduras, Nicaragua and the DR, and collaborates with other Support Members on microfinance projects in Colombia, Haiti and India. Opportunity International Canada is also running a significant project in Ghana, supported by Global Affairs Canada.
The Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) is an association of microfinance networks in Africa resulting from an initiative led by African microfinance practitioners to create and strengthen country-level microfinance networks for the purpose of establishing shared performance standards, institutional capacity and policy change.
FINCA International is a non-profit, microfinance organization, founded by John Hatch in 1984. [1] FINCA is the innovator of the village banking methodology in microcredit and is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of modern-day microfinance. [2]
In Afghanistan, the First MicroFinance Bank (FMFB-A) piloted a habitat improvement product in 2008. With the support of the IFC, a housing microfinance loan product was developed. As of December 2010, FMFB-A had 5,003 outstanding housing improvement loans and an outstanding total housing loan portfolio of US$6,759,010.
Examples of efforts to support the healthy development of financial markets through better information include One Acre Fund's Smallholder Finance Product Explorer, [4] the Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance's State of the Sector [5] report and analysis, and the CGAP Cross Border Funder Survey; [6] all are initiatives supported by MIX ...