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United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

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Name: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) (UNCDF)

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated 23 hours ago - 3 reports

"Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar"

Justine Sija has boosted her business as a fish vendor through access to microcreditTOLIARA, 16 May 2013 (IRIN) - Justine Sija, 60, begins her day at 4am, when she buys catch from local fishermen to hawk on the streets of St Augustin Village, in Madagascar’s ... [Published IRIN - May 17 2013]

Entities: Madagascar, Microfinance, Small Businesses, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), United Nations Development Programme

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations Development Programme

Helen Clark - Speech At Commonwealth Local Government Forum Conference 2013 [document]

Helen Clark, UNDP Administrator Keynote address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum Conference 2013"Local government's role in helping achieve development goals"Kampala, UgandaThank you for inviting me to participate in the Commonwealth Local Government ... [Published Individual.com - May 16 2013]

Entities: United Nations Development Programme, Sustainable Development, Helen Clark

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

United Nations

Speech by H.M. Queen M$xima, UNSG?s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development

15 mei 2013Amsterdam, 15 May 2013 Good morning. Welcome to the Netherlands. I tend to excuse myself for the Dutch weather. But you have probably been inside in this meeting for the past two days.And this great work is needed. The annual meeting of CGAP ... [Published Noodls - May 15 2013]

Entities: Food Security, Advocate, SME Banking, United Nations, Sustainability

First reported May 15 2013 - Updated May 15 2013 - 1 reports

Open for Registration: 9th Microfinance Training of Trainers (9MFTOT)

Registration for the 9th Microfinance Training of Trainers (MFTOT9) has started on May 1, 2013 and will close on June 30, 2013. The interactive microfinance distance learning course (MFDL) developed by UNCDF is the core learning material for study.MFTOT9 ... [Published Microfinance Gateway - May 15 2013]

Entities: Microfinance, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

Mobile Banking

Mobile banking brings financial services to the poor

The Bank of the Lao PDR (BOL) and its donor agencies are promoting modern payment systems, including mobile banking, to provide people in rural areas with access to finance, support private sector growth and alleviate poverty.The World Bank Group, the ... [Published IndoChinaStock - May 08 2013]

Entities: Laos, Mobile Banking, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

First reported Apr 22 2013 - Updated Apr 22 2013 - 1 reports

Free web-based UNCDF Microfinance Distance Learning Course

For anyone who would like to learn about Microfinance this is a great online tool. I took this distance learning course back in 2003 and it was great but now it is interactive and it is free. A thanks to Camelia Hrab for sending me this info. UNDP ... [Published Microfinance and beyond... - Apr 22 2013]

Entities: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), Microfinance, Dannel Malloy

First reported Mar 28 2013 - Updated Mar 28 2013 - 1 reports

PayPal

Current issues in payments (part 1)

In this first of a two or three part instalment. In them Laurent Simon and I comment on our impressions of David Birch’s Tomorrow’s Transactions Forum , which we attended thanks to Dave’s generosity. NOTE: Although written in first person, what ... [Published Light Blue Touchpaper - Mar 28 2013]

Entities: Mobile Wallet, M-Pesa, Authentication, PayPal, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

First reported Jan 23 2013 - Updated Jan 23 2013 - 1 reports

MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: YouthStart Supports Opening of 40,000 Savings Accounts, Grants $640k to Faitiere des Unites Cooperatives d’Epargne et de Credit du Togo (FUCEC)

YouthStart, a program that aims to increase access to financial services for low-income youth in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently reported that approximately 40,000 young people in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda have opened savings ... [Published MicroCapital - Jan 23 2013]

Entities: United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), United Nations Capital Development Fund, MasterCard Inc, Togo

First reported Jan 17 2013 - Updated Jan 17 2013 - 1 reports

United Republic of Tanzania (the): Pooling resources for local development: Tanzanian women take matters into their own hands

Source: UN WomenCountry: United Republic of Tanzania (the) “You need to join forces if you want to stand strong,” explains Batuli Massawe, a 46-year-old mushroom farmer who has become a respected entrepreneur due largely to training and solidarity lending ... [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - Jan 17 2013]

Entities: Tanzania, Morogoro (Tanzania), United Nations, Agriculture, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)

Quotes

"After I got the microcredit, I went from selling 100 eggs a day to selling up to 300. I could send my children to a private school"

"Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar" [Published IRIN - May 17 2013]

"Through this mechanism we have good hope that the cycle of poverty caused by poor farmers' debts will be broken" Fatma Samoura, UNDP's country representative, told IRIN

Microcredit Helps Small Businesses Buck the System [Published AllAfrica.com - May 17 2013]

"People in Madagascar need to work together and the poor here need a direct approach to development. The products are there, but people also need the right education to be able to access them" said Harinavalona Rajaonah, who works at Ombona Tahiry Ifampisamborana Vola (OTIV), one of the UNDP-partnered microfinance organizations

Madagascar: Microcredit helps small businesses buck the system in Madagascar [Published ReliefWeb - Latest Updates - May 16 2013]

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Free web-based UNCDF Microfinance Distance Lear... [Published Microfinance and beyond... - Apr 22 2013] For anyone who would like to learn about Microfinance this is a great online tool. I took this distance learning course back in 2003 and it was great but now it is interactive and it is free. A thanks to Camelia Hrab for sending me this info. UNDP ...
Current issues in payments (part 1) [Published Light Blue Touchpaper - Mar 28 2013] In this first of a two or three part instalment. In them Laurent Simon and I comment on our impressions of David Birch’s Tomorrow’s Transactions Forum , which we attended thanks to Dave’s generosity. NOTE: Although written in first person, what ...
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Uganda’s Insurance Regulato... [Published MicroCapital - Mar 12 2013] The Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA), Uganda’s insurance industry regulator, reportedly is partnering with Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A), a multilateral platform that aims to coordinate financial sector activities among African governments, ...
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Anne Hastings of Fonkoze Ou... [Published MicroCapital - Mar 05 2013] Anne Hastings, CEO of Haitian microfinance institution Fonkoze Financial Services, recently summarized the challenges outlined by a panel hosted by the Better Than Cash Alliance (BTC), a US-based NGO that promotes financial inclusion through mobile banking, ...
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: YouthStart Supports Opening... [Published MicroCapital - Jan 23 2013] YouthStart, a program that aims to increase access to financial services for low-income youth in Sub-Saharan Africa, recently reported that approximately 40,000 young people in Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Malawi, Rwanda, Senegal and Uganda have opened savings ...