 |
The
international day 12 October 2005 |
 |
|
|
The
Secretary-General Message |
|
|
|
Press kit |
|
|
|
Conclusion from expert |
|
|
|
Events |
|
|
|
Media events |
|
|
|
Links |
|
|
|
Case studies |
|
|
|
Other points of view |
|
|
|
Announcement |
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
| Salvano
Briceño, director of the UN/ISDR secretariat “Investing in disaster risk reduction reduces the vulnerability of people to hazards and helps break the vicious cycle of poverty. We need to engage the micro finance community into a dialogue on reducing the impact of natural hazards on populations and livelihoods " "Micro finance is a successful tool to empower women to help reduce their poverty and therefore, their vulnerability to disasters.” |
|
 |
|
 |
|
| Links |
| How Microfinance is related to natural disasters |
| The World Bank Surviving Disasters and Supporting Recovery: A Guidebook for Microfinance Institutions http://www.worldbank.org/hazards/files/disasterguidefinal.pdf |
| www.yearofmicrocredit.org Find out all about microfinance and the objectives for the International year of Microcredit |
| www.usaidmicro.org Learn about Microenterprise Best Practices. Read the second of three MBP Technical Briefs focused on natural disaster preparedness |
| www.microfinancegateway.org When a disaster strikes, both the client and MFI become vulnerable. A new guidebook by the World Bank and UNCDF presents practical steps on how to prepare for natural disasters. |
| www.microfinancegateway.org Microfinance and Disaster Risk Management: Experiences and Lessons learned |
| www.microfinancegateway.org Still indebted to the microfinance institution (MFI), clients lose assets or income-earning activities needed to repay MFI debts. At the same time, clients require emergency funds to buy food or medicine. Clients with the smallest personal safety net and the greatest loss of income or assets may cope by going deeper into debt, pulling children out of school, selling off remaining assets and livestock, and, in extreme cases, dividing the family as adults migrate in search of work. This brief conclusively examined disaster preparedness tools that MFIs can use to mitigate the effects of sudden natural disaster on their clientele |
| www.savethechildren.org Impact studies conducted on Save the Children programs and on other similar microfinance programs, show the positive impact of women-focused microfinance on children |
| www.grameenfoundation.org How Ellevva turned into a micro-businesswoman The story of how D.Ellevva, a day labourer grew a micro business and earns regular income thanks to a loan (Also learn how microloans empowered a few microfinance borrowers to escape poverty by clicking on the names in the left column) |
| www.cgap.org Learn about case studies of the microfinance industry and microfinance institutions in particular regions |
| www.unitus.com Read about some borrower success stories |
| www.ilo.org Learn about microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au A teacher’s resource for the International Year of Microcredit has been written for primary and secondary teachers to introduce students to the concept of Microcredit |
| www.gdrc.org Microcredit and Microfinance are important poverty reduction tools – Koffi Annan |
| www.greenmicrofinance.org Solar ovens to Sri Lanka with a mission to rebuild 1000 new homes for victims of tsunami |
| www.microcreditsummit.org Reducing poverty through Microcredit at CIDA |
| www.gfusa.org GFUSA Tsunami study recommends Microfinance to accelerate recovery |
| www.unis.unvienna.org The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) is taking the opportunity of The International Year of Microcredit to organize a number of events around the world to stimulate a debate on how safety nets and micro-insurance can contribute to disaster risk reduction |
| www.uncdf.org Reversing the increasing vulnerability and destitution of the post-disaster context population requires development strategies and not just emergency and relief programs |
| www.seepnetwork.org The emerging role of Microfinance in mitigating the impact of natural disasters: Summary findings of an Impact assessment of World Vision’s Ethiopian affiliate |
| www.proventionconsortium.org Preventions’ initiative to promote and support the application of micro finance and micro insurance for disaster risk reduction |
| www.unitus.com Read about some borrower success stories |
| www.ilo.org Learn about microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in Sub-Saharan Africa |
| www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au A teacher’s resource for the International Year of Microcredit has been written for primary and secondary teachers to introduce students to the concept of Microcredit |
| www.gdrc.org Microcredit and Microfinance are important poverty reduction tools – Koffi Annan |
| www.greenmicrofinance.org Solar ovens to Sri Lanka with a mission to rebuild 1000 new homes for victims of tsunami |
| www.microcreditsummit.org/newsletter/resources5.htm Reducing poverty through Microcredit at CIDA |
| www.gfusa.org GFUSA Tsunami study recommends Microfinance to accelerate recovery |
| www.unis.unvienna.org The United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN/ISDR) is taking the opportunity of The International Year of Microcredit to organize a number of events around the world to stimulate a debate on how safety nets and micro-insurance can contribute to disaster risk reduction |
| www.uncdf.org Reversing the increasing vulnerability and destitution of the post-disaster context population requires development strategies and not just emergency and relief programs |
|
www.seepnetwork.org |
| www.proventionconsortium.org Preventions’ initiative to promote and support the application of micro finance and micro insurance for disaster risk reduction |
