Our Approach
|
CGAP works with donors and investors to improve the effectiveness of funding for microfinance. We focus on increasing transparency within the funding landscape and help funders improve how they work in microfinance. Our vision is a world where diverse funding sources are used where they are most needed, so that all market segments are reached.
Resources for Donors and Investors
|
|
|
|
|
Funding Landscape
|
|
CGAP seeks to improve the availability and quality of information on funding flows to microfinance to promote greater social and financial transparency.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Features
|
|
|
The third round of the SmartAid for Microfinance Index opens in September. Funders interested in improving the effectiveness of their support to microfinance are encouraged to participate.
|
|
|
|
More >
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
News and Events
|
|
|
|
CGAP Funder Training in Nairobi, Kenya: The next CGAP Funder Training, "Developing Inclusive Financial Systems: CGAP Course for Funders of Microfinance" will be held in Nairobi, Kenya on 8-12 November 2010. Recently updated to reflect the latest innovations in microfinance, this course is tailored for donors and investors who will benefit from a deeper understanding of microfinance to conduct their work more effectively. The course will be taught in English.
|
|
2010 Microfinance Social Investors Meeting: On 29 June 2010, CGAP and the Investor Group of the Social Performance Task Force organized the Microfinance Social Investor Meeting. More than 40 investors gathered, including many microfinance investment intermediaries (MIIs), banks, a pension fund and several development finance institutions. Together they represented more than half of assets under management in the microfinance sector.
|
|
Funders Meet in Burkina Faso to Discuss Rural Finance : Members of 15 leading funder agencies met in Ouagadougou this April to discuss rural finance, which remains a challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa.
|
|
More >
|
|
|
|
|
Good Practice Standards
|
|
CGAP uses its convening power to forge consensus on lessons learned and to develop good practice standards to move the industry forward.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Investors' Corner
|
|
CGAP offers a broad range of research products for microfinance investors. Visit the Investors’ Corner to find information on the performance of Microfinance Investment Vehicles, the latest deals in the industry and the latest publications.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Funder Effectiveness
|
|
What does it take for donors and investors to fund microfinance effectively? CGAP strives to improve how funders support microfinance by focusing on the one thing they can change – their own way of working.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
