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How Microfinance is related to natural disasters |
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The World Bank
Surviving Disasters and Supporting
Recovery: A Guidebook for Microfinance Institutions
http://www.worldbank.org/hazards/files/disasterguidefinal.pdf |
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www.yearofmicrocredit.org
Find out all about microfinance and the objectives for the International year
of Microcredit |
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www.usaidmicro.org
Learn about Microenterprise Best Practices. Read the second of three MBP Technical
Briefs focused on natural disaster preparedness |
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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. |
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www.microfinancegateway.org
Microfinance and Disaster Risk Management: Experiences and Lessons learned |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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www.cgap.org
Learn about case studies of the microfinance industry and microfinance institutions
in particular regions |
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www.unitus.com
Read about some borrower success stories |
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www.ilo.org
Learn about microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in
Sub-Saharan Africa |
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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 |
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www.gdrc.org
Microcredit and Microfinance are important poverty reduction tools – Koffi
Annan |
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www.greenmicrofinance.org
Solar ovens to Sri Lanka with a mission to rebuild 1000 new homes for victims
of tsunami |
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www.microcreditsummit.org
Reducing poverty through Microcredit at CIDA |
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www.gfusa.org
GFUSA Tsunami study recommends Microfinance to accelerate recovery |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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www.proventionconsortium.org
Preventions’ initiative to promote and support the application of micro
finance and micro insurance for disaster risk reduction |
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www.unitus.com
Read about some borrower success stories |
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www.ilo.org
Learn about microfinance strategies for HIV/AIDS mitigation and prevention in
Sub-Saharan Africa |
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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 |
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www.gdrc.org
Microcredit and Microfinance are important poverty reduction tools – Koffi
Annan |
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www.greenmicrofinance.org
Solar ovens to Sri Lanka with a mission to rebuild 1000 new homes for victims
of tsunami |
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www.microcreditsummit.org/newsletter/resources5.htm
Reducing poverty through Microcredit at CIDA |
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www.gfusa.org
GFUSA Tsunami study recommends Microfinance to accelerate recovery |
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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 |
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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 |
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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
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www.proventionconsortium.org
Preventions’ initiative to promote and support the application of micro
finance and micro insurance for disaster risk reduction |
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