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Nakuru North Women Empowerment Programme

nicholas nganga — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:03:37 GMT

Dear Sir/Madam, Nakuru North Women Empowerment Programme is an initiative of Education Supplements International,a non-governmental organization(NGO) based in

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

Sara Pait — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:44:03 GMT

Dear Kirsten: In relation to statistics reflecting the proportion of men and women that are in micro and SME, there are studies made by Juan Diego Trejos

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

abbas ali — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:00:12 GMT

Dear Namrata and Kirsten, I do agree with views of Namarta regarding the utilization of MF loans in Pakistan by the male members of female borrowers. The

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

abbas ali — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:24:12 GMT

Dear All, Recently I have completed my research in Lahore, Pakistan, focused on ‘Men’s perspective of women’s empowerment through microfinance’. I

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

kirsten_weiss2001 — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:24:12 GMT

Namrata: I certainly saw that phenomena in Pakistan. Lots of MFIs claimed they were lending to women, but they were really the "front man" for the loan for

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

Namrata Sharma — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:29:27 GMT

Dear Kerstin, Not really. My experince in the sector has been that although women Clientele are targetted by MFIs the loans are "targetted towards men"

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

l.mayoux@... — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 21:00:56 GMT

Dear Kirsten, Do you have a copy of the Finca Study in English? Would be interesting to put in the folders on the site? I am actually going to Finca Peru next

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

kirsten_weiss2001 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:49:47 GMT

Namrata: Thanks for your response! Do you happen to know of any good examples of development financial institutions which have successfully designed

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

kirsten_weiss2001 — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 20:49:37 GMT

Dear Linda: Of course, I'll be happy to share my article once it's complete! And I'd also be interested to hear from anyone about instances of discrimination

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

l.mayoux@... — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 14:40:39 GMT

Dear Kirsten, To build further on what Namrata has said,in my exerience there are both supply and demand factors. On the supply side, I think we have to look

Re: Women - the Missing Middle?

Namrata Sharma — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:58:35 GMT

Dear Kirsten, Indeed with individual lending loan sizes grow as a result the shift from the poorest to the better offs increase. As we all know in every

Women - the Missing Middle?

kirsten_weiss2001 — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 15:51:19 GMT

Hello, All. I'm new to this board, though not to microfinance. One of my "specialties" is assisting MFIs to upscale to larger loan sizes (i.e. to the small

Women's empowerment key to achieving development targets, UN forum t

Linda Mayoux — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 10:25:46 GMT

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27604 &Cr=MDG&Cr1=

Re: inputs on access to MF etc needed

Malena De Montis — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:31:10 GMT

Thank you to for the information. I also had problems with the link. I will like to learn more about the initiative and share information we have in the

Re: inputs on access to MF etc needed - link works without the full

Linda Mayoux — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:29:26 GMT

Dear Smita and Rogaya, The link works if you take the full stop off the end of the link address, Linda ... for me. ... word ...