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This paper is part of study “The Competitive Environment in Uganda – Implications for Microfinance Institutions and their Clients” sponsored by MicroSave and DFID’s FSDU (Financial Sector Deepening Uganda) programme.
The paper describes the Community Health Plan (CHeaP), a project of the microfinance organisation CENT, in Kisumu, Kenya and how it uses a savings-based methodology for collecting health insurance premiums.
This note talks about the impact of HIV/AIDS on the microfinance clients, their coping mechanisms, and role of microfinance in enabling the clients to cope with the crisis.
The paper provides details of the richness and complexity of poor people’s attempts at saving in the informal sector and their successes, failures and losses as they do so.
This paper highlights results of feedback processes at five ImpAct partner institutions–bank for low-income market, two group-based microcredit institutions, member- owned financial institutions, and a savings and credit MFI.
Examines the managed ASCAs operating in Central Province of Kenya. The study examines the strengths and weaknesses of this alternative approach to supporting financial services for the poor.