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3.2 The Roles of Donors and NGOs: Microfinance in Africa Experience and Lessons from Selected African Countries
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| Donors and NGOs have generally provided support through two main channels: domestic
NGOs or donor-managed microfinance projects, and microfinance institutions that function
more or less like leasing companies (receiving wholesale external resources and lending to
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Ending Poverty Consciousness
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| This article distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness. It gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations. |
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6.2 Propositions for engaging the international business community: Enterprise solutions to poverty
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| Our second set of propositions relates to the role of
large businesses, especially multinational corporations,
in tackling poverty. Our core position is that
through harnessing its value-creating assets, big
business is especially well-equipped to add
enormous value to pro-poor enterprise initiatives –
and elsewhere in the war against poverty. |
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9.3.3 Other micro-finance providers: Support for Growth-oriented Women Entrepreneurs in Tanzania, 2005
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| A number of NGOs also do micro lending, some of them predominantly oriented
towards women-owned MSE clients. During the Tanzania field visit, interviews were
held with the Tanzania Gatsby Trust (TGT) and the Zanzibar Fund for Self Reliance, two
examples of such NGOs. |
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3.2 The Roles of Donors and NGOs: Microfinance in Africa Experience and Lessons from Selected African Countries
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| Donors and NGOs have generally provided support through two main channels: domestic
NGOs or donor-managed microfinance projects, and microfinance institutions that function
more or less like leasing companies (receiving wholesale external resources and lending to
clients). |
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What is a Microfinance Institution (MFI)?
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| Quite simply, a microfinance institution is an organization that offers financial services to low income populations. Almost all of these offer microcredit and only take back small amounts of savings from their own borrowers, not from the general public. Within the microfinance industry, the term microfinance institution has come to refer to a wide range of organizations dedicated to providing these services: NGOs, credit unions, cooperatives, private commercial banks and non-bank financial institutions (some that have transformed from NGOs into regulated institutions) and parts of state-owned banks, for example. |
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African Countries Focus on Microfinance: Twelve African Nations Engaged in the International Year of Microcredit to Date
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| Half of the population in Africa lives on less than one dollar a day. More than half the population has no access to safe drinking water. More than two million infants die annually before reaching their first birthday.[1] Such is the harsh reality of the scale of poverty in Africa. The Millennium Development Goals and the objective to halve the proportion of people living in extreme poverty by 2015 has driven a number of regional and national initiatives focused on poverty eradication in Africa based on local needs and priorities. |
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The Role of Microfinance in Addressing the HIV/AIDS Pandemic in Zambia: The Rainbow Model Provides a Future for AIDS Orphans
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| Poverty and HIV/AIDS constitute a vicious circle. Poverty creates vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, and HIV/AIDS leads to poverty. Unfortunately, the interventions of the national and international community are not moving as quickly as the desperation and the loss of hope in the people coping with the pandemic at the grassroots level. |
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2.8 The foundations of a decent work strategy for poverty reduction: Working Out of Poverty
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| Most analysts of the nature and causes of poverty agree that growth in
per capita income is essential to reducing poverty and that persistent growth
failures are accompanied by a persistent failure to reduce poverty. However,
they have not found a stable relationship between the rate of average per
capita growth and the rate of poverty reduction. |
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3.5 Building local development through cooperatives: Working Out of Poverty
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| The participation of people living in poverty in policies to improve their
livelihood and counteract social exclusion and vulnerability is increasingly
emphasized in poverty reduction strategies. |
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5.6 A coherent framework for national and local action: Working Out of Poverty
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| Increased in-depth analysis of the multifaceted experience of poverty is
leading to a growing awareness of the need for a range of policies that are
specific to the problems faced by different communities and countries. Given
that the causes of poverty are many and interconnected, targeted policies
have most effect when they act in combination to break cycles of poverty.
One of the most encouraging aspects of the new approach to poverty reduction
and eradication is therefore the emphasis on policy coherence, based on
a comprehensive development framework. |
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