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SmartAid for Microfinance Index 2011 August 31, 2010 The SmartAid Index helps funders identify their strengths and weaknesses and draws management attention to priorities for change. |
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May 27, 2010 This Technical Guide presents the rationale for the use of performance-based agreements and suggests ways to incorporate performance-based targets and incentives into existing loan and grant agreements. |
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Measuring Results of Microfinance Institutions July 27, 2009 This Technical Guide is for funding agency staff who design or monitor projects that finance microfinance institutions or community-managed loan funds. |
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Microfinance Managers Consider Online Funding April 21, 2009 Online philanthropy is changing the nature of how and where people give. This Focus Note highlights important issues microfinance institutions may want to know before borrowing online. |
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SmartAid for Microfinance Index 2009 February 27, 2009 SmartAid measures whether funding agencies are set up to support microfinance effectively. It is the first index of its kind that promotes transparent external assessments of funders’ management systems. SmartAid helps funders understand how their internal management systems, policies, procedures, and incentives affect their work in microfinance. |
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Appraising Microfinance Institutions December 19, 2008 Appraisals help funders to determine the capacity of MFIs and to make decisions related to capitalizing an MFI or providing support for technical assistance. |
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National Microfinance Strategies June 1, 2008 This Brief summarizes a study of several national microfinance strategy/policy documents. |
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May 1, 2006 This Focus Note presents conclusions from a performance review of dozens of community-managed loan funds projects established or supported by donors and international nongovernment organizations over the past 15 years. |
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Aid Effectiveness in Microfinance April 1, 2006 This Focus Note reviews some of the findings of CGAP's evaluations of the World Bank and UNDP microcredit projects. The evaluations reveal serious problems, but also highlight promising corrective measures. |
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A Multilateral Donor Triumphs over Disbursement Pressure December 1, 2001 This Focus Note highlights how international financial institutions can serve as catalysts in the development of microfinance retail capacity. The World Bank employed a patient, phased support to Brazil's Banco do Nordeste as it designed, launched, and nurtured its CrediAmigo microfinance program. The program's early progress suggests useful lessons for microfinance donors. |
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Resource Guide to Microfinance Assessments November 1, 2001 This Focus Notes compares five microfinance institution assessment services and describes the challenges that face such assessments. The assessments are holistic evaluations of MFIs' financial and overall performance. Assessments are offered by microfinance networks as a management tool for their affiliates. Likewise, donors and investors use assessments as part of making decisions about whether to fund an MFI. |
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April 1, 2001 Donor coordination in microfinance is good practice and should be encouraged. This Focus Note argues that successful cases of in-country coordination often come down to a few motivated individuals. |
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CGAP’s Pilot Microfinance Capacity-Building Initiative in Africa February 1, 1999 In April 1997, CGAP launched an experiment called the CGAP Pilot Microfinance Capacity-Building Initiative in Africa. The initiative spanned East and West Africa and focused primarily on working with African training institutes to provide financial management courses to microfinance institutions. After 20 months of implementation, several lessons emerged that are relevant for donor initiatives attempting to enhance the performance of the microfinance industry worldwide. This Focus Note briefly describes the pilot initiative and offers key lessons and recommendations for implementing capacity-building programs. |
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How CGAP Member Donors Fund Microfinance Institutions November 1, 1997 This Focus Note provides a snapshot in 1998 of how microfinance fits into the agency structures of CGAP member donors, including the country or geographic priorities of each agency, the instruments (grants, loans, equity, etc.) they provide to MFIs, and the procedures to request support from each agency. |
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Anatomy of a Microfinance Deal August 1, 1997 How best can one support an MFI that has a track record of extending quality financial services to significant numbers of poor people on a progressively financially sustainable basis? Using examples of CGAP funding, this Focus Note outlines an approach based on mutual accountability, institutional performance, and shared risk. |