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  • MFTransparency and the Association of Micro Finance Institutions in Rwanda Launch Initiative in Rwanda

    Published on October 18, 2010

    MFTransparency and the Association of Micro Finance Institutions in Rwanda (AMIR) will co-host a workshop in Kigali, Rwanda to launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Rwanda, the third country in the MasterCard Foundation-funded enabling APR & EIR Program.

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    Countries: Rwanda
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: enab APR&EIR, Pricing Initiative
  • MFTransparency and the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda Launch Initiative in Uganda

    Published on October 18, 2010

    On December 3, 2010 MFTransparency and the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda (AMFIU) will co-host a workshop in Kampala, Uganda to launch the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Uganda, the second country in the MasterCard Foundation-funded enabling APR & EIRProgram.

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    Countries: Uganda
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: enab APR&EIR, Pricing Initiative
  • MFTransparency en Foromic

    Published on October 18, 2010

    La semana pasada tuve la oportunidad de asistir por primera vez al Foro de la Microempresa (Foromic) organizado por el BID y FOMIN, el cual se llevo a cabo en Montevideo, Uruguay. Fueron tres días de interesantes sesiones donde tuvimos la posibilidad de establecer contactos con los representantes del sector microfinanciero de Latino América y el Caribe.

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    Countries: Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Uruguay
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: MFT Event, Pricing Initiative
  • MFTransparency Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of AFMIN in Accra, Ghana

    Published on October 14, 2010

    The African Microfinance Network (AFMIN), the association of microfinance networks in Africa, recently organized its 9th annual conference, which also marked the 10th anniversary celebration of the organization. The conference was held in Accra, Ghana on October 5 – 9, 2010. With the theme “Access to Financial Services: Reaching the Poor and Excluded,” the conference gathered over 400 participants from Africa and around the globe.

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    Countries: Ghana
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: MFT Event
  • MFTransparency Joins Financial Inclusion Side-Event at the United Nations

    Published on October 13, 2010

    On September 22, 2010 I attended a side-event during the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals Summit 2010 on behalf of MicroFinance Transparency entitled “Financial Inclusion: A Path to the Millennium Development Goals.” The intimate event was hosted by the Governments of the Netherlands and the United States, together with Her Royal Highness Princess Máxima of the Netherlands, the UN Secretary General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, and included a wide range of practitioners from around the world.

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    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Responsible Finance
  • Data Collection in Burkina Faso

    Published on October 12, 2010

    After the launch of the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Burkina Faso in July 2010, I returned to work directly with the MFIs on the data collection process.

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    Countries: Burkina Faso
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Pricing Initiative
  • Microfinance, Muhammad Yunus, and Lisa Simpson

    Published on October 8, 2010

    Those three look strange together. What does Lisa Simpson have to do with Microfinance and Muhammad Yunus? After seeing Muhammad Yunus win the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006, Yeardley Smith, the voice of Lisa Simpson, became interested in microfinance and visited the founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh.

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    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Responsible Finance
  • Aligned Objectives of MFIN & MFT

    Published on October 7, 2010

    The Microfinance Institutions Network (MFIN) is one of the organizations that MFTransparency has partnered with on the Transparent Pricing Initiative in India. MFIN has played a big role during the data collection process by motivating its members to participate.

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    Countries: India
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Data Collection, Pricing Initiative
  • Microfinance in Malawi: An Industry in Transition

    Published on October 7, 2010

    Since launching the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Malawi in August (also the launch of the enabling APR & EIR Program), I have learned a lot about the microfinance industry in Malawi. The microfinance sector in Malawi is relatively small but actively involved in a transition into a more credible and sustainable business to cater for the poor’s financial needs.

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    Countries: Malawi
    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: enab APR&EIR, Pricing Initiative
  • The Devil is in the Dates

    Published on October 6, 2010

    When we receive loan data from microfinance institutions that wish to become transparent, they enter the information about their loans into our Data Collection Tool. In addition, we always ask for real repayment schedules for active loans given to real borrowers. We use these repayment schedules to verify the information the MFI has entered into our Data Collection Tool, but they also serve another purpose.

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    Category: MFTransparency Blog
    Tags: Data Collection, Understanding Prices