Entries tagged with MFI

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Top Ten PPI Challenges: Barriers faced by MFIs >
Awais
• 01/24/11
• Posted in challenges, MFI, microfinance, Plan International, poverty, poverty assessment, social performance, top ten
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As the Regional Microfinance Programme Specialist for Plan International in Asia, I have learned first-hand the top challenges faced by microfinance institutions in accepting—and implementing—the PPI as their poverty assessment tool. My observations led me to create the ten challenges I outline here.

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A Visit with ESAF in Kerala, India Piloting the PPI Standards Certification Process >
shaviser
• 08/27/10
• Posted in certification, ESAF, India, MFI, pilot, ppi standards
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I arrive in Kerala in the middle of the monsoon, with days characterized by gray skies and consistent rain, heavy only at times, but invariably rainy. Kerala is situated on the country’s southwest coast. It has the highest literacy rates in the country, and while predominantly Muslim, holds the country’s largest Christian population. Kerala is a contradictory state.

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