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Deadline: February 24, 2012. Countries/Region:Asia, Africa,Latin America WWB Fellowship Program enables future global leaders in microfinance and women’s economic empowerment to experience the challenges and rewards of contributing to an organization that works diligently to create financial opportunities for low income women. Over a 2-year period, Fellows will deliver . . . → Read More: 2012 WWB Fellowship Program- Seeking Fellows DEADLINE: February 3, 2012 Countries/Region:Colombia,Peru WWB is an international microfinance support organization and network of 39 microfinance institutions in 27 countries. The mission of WWB is to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. . . . → Read More: Gender Consultant for Women in Rural Economy Research in Latin America-Women’s World Banking (WWB) A loan of $2.5 million is extended to two Colombian MFIs, by Social Investor Global Partnerships. The two MFISs receiving the loan are Fundación Amanecer and Contactar. Global Partnerships’ Social Investment Fund 2010 (SIF 2010), which is a five-year, $25 million debt fund, has provided the loan. The first loan of . . . → Read More: Global Partnerships lends $2.5M to two Colombian MFIs  Comments are closed  Donor Updates  Colombia, Global Partnerships, GP, microfinance, million, Nicaragua, organization, organizations, provided, SIF Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF) has started an equity fund that will be invested in microfinance institutions. This fund will help PPAF reach its goal of making commercial financing easily accessible and increasing growth in rural areas. . . . → Read More: Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund invests in Jinnah Welfare Society Comments are closed Donor Updates equity, fund, goal, growth, Jinnah Welfare Society, JWS, microfinance, microfinance institutions, PPAF, rural An INR 250 Million Series B investment in Utkarsh Microfinance Pvt. Limited has been led by the Norwegian Microfinance Initiative’s Frontier Fund KS . . . → Read More: Norwegian microfinance fund leads Rs.250 Million equity investment in Utkarsh Comments are closed Donor Updates financial, fund, growth, India, investment, microfinance, NMI, sector, Utkarsh Microfinance Pvt, work An Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders Conference will be held in Erbil on October 3 and 4. . . . → Read More: Iraq’s microfinance institutions to hold conference on financial inclusion Comments are closed Donor Updates addition, conference, financial, forum, institutions, Iraq, microfinance, microfinance industry, million, October Grameen Foundation and USAID providing a credit guarantee of $1.5 million to the Peruvian savings and credit cooperative. . . . → Read More: Grameen Foundation and USAID Providing $3 Million for Peruvian Microfinance Institutions Comments are closed Donor Updates ABACO, agreement, capital, Grameen Foundation, institutions, microfinance, microfinance institutions, Peru, support, USAID The MasterCard Foundation and UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) have started the expansion plan for the MicroLead program that has already proved its success in the recent past. The launching of the new expansion plan came at the 5th Annual African Microfinance Conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This new project will run for . . . → Read More: The MasterCard Foundation and UNCDF Launch MicroLead Expansion Program Comments are closed Donor Updates based, countries, developing, developing countries, financial, microfinance, needs, partnership, poor, services USAID recently signed a loan guarantee agreement with Bank Mulamalat, Indonesia’s oldest Islamic bank, enabling low-income women in that country to apply for microfinance loans. This $1.15 million agreement is USAID’s first-ever finance guarantee program with an Islamic financial institution worldwide. The loan guarantee agreement builds on President Obama’s speech in . . . → Read More: USAID signs microfinance guarantee agreement with Bank Muamalat, first of its kind with an Islamic financial institution worldwide Comments are closed Donor Updates agreement, applicants, Bank Muamalat, income, interest, low income, microfinance, USAID, women, worldwide Microfinance in Africa is a powerful tool aimed at promoting economic growth and generating employment, yet the sector is fragile and its outreach is limited: only 1 in 5 households has a deposit account with a regulated financial institution, compared to an average of 1.5 in 5 in other developing regions, and 4 . . . → Read More: Microfinance Capacity Building Fund: First call for proposals to improve the outreach of microfinance for the benefit of poor and low-income people in Africa 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Grants and Resources for Livelihood and Microfinance, Latest Funds for NGOs Africa, improve, institutions, microfinance, outreach, poor, proposals Source: http://www.mbendi.com/a_sndmsg/news_view.asp?I=117206&PG=35 The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and Government of Spain have launched the Microfinance Capacity Building Fund for Africa, aimed towards strengthening capacity building efforts in the financial sector to help low-income populations in the continent. Special emphasis of the fund will remain on improving the conditions of women and people . . . → Read More: AfDB, Government of Spain launch the Microfinance Capacity Building Fund for Africa RESULTS Educational Fund is inviting interested candidates to get registered for the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit to be held in Valladolid, Spain from November 14-17, 2011. This will be the 15th global or regional summit organized by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. In February of 1997, the Fund convened the first Microcredit . . . → Read More: Registration open for the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit to be held in Valladolid, Spain during November Microfinance Centre (MFC) is a grass-root network of 110 member institutions that play an active role in shaping the microfinance industry in the Europe and Central Asia (ECA) region. Members range from banks, non-governmental organizations, social and commercial investors, to development institutions and international PVOs. All share an interest in microfinance, . . . → Read More: MFC invites applications from national microfinance networks for Social Performance Start-up Fund Opportunity International, a leading network of microfinance institutions in the world, has announced its expansion plans in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) after getting a contribution of $250,000 from Tenke Fungurume Mining (TFM). This contribution is aimed at supporting the Opportunity DRC’s mission of providing safe community banking in the country besides . . . → Read More: Opportunity International consolidates its Community Banking in the DRC with TFM’s contribution Comments are closed Donor Updates community, democratic republic of congo, DRC, expansion, microfinance, microfinance institutions The Russian Microfinance Center and the Citi Foundation announced the opening of nominations for the sixth annual Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards. Nominations will be open from 1 November until 30 December 2010. The aim is to encourage the best microentrepreneurs and the most effective organizations that offer microfinancing services across Russia, as . . . → Read More: Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards in Russia Have your say for DFID-World Bank’s plan to increase microfinance services in the Sub-Saharan AfricaThe UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the World Bank are in the process of setting up a Microfinance Capacity Building Facility for Sub-Saharan Africa, known as MICFAC. It aims to increase the outreach of microfinance services – such as savings, loans, insurance and money transfer services – to more poor people . . . → Read More: Have your say for DFID-World Bank’s plan to increase microfinance services in the Sub-Saharan Africa 9 comments - (Comments are closed) Latest Funds for NGOs Bank, building, dfid, microfinance, Saharan, sub-Saharan Africa Strengthening livelihoods, especially ensuring food security and increasing income opportunities for local communities, is one of the core responsibilities of NGOs working in poor and developing countries. As many efforts are made in this direction, small organizations continue to face challenges in developing a plan or a project proposal to raise funds to . . . → Read More: How to write a proposal for a Community Livelihoods Development Project Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community, community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, How to Write a Proposal, how write proposals for NGOs, information, LFA, livelihood development, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, project proposal, proposal formats, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, security, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, Strengthening, writing a project justification, writing a proposal, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Defining the Problem The foremost part of any proposal is to identify and analyze the problem we have seen in our area. These are the general problems that we may notice in our project area. But simply writing down these problems will not help. We need to be analytical to . . . → Read More: How to define “problem” in a project proposal Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods How to find the cause of the problem we are seeing around us One of the ways to analyze a problem or trying to find the cause of the problem is to ask oneself: “Why this is happening?” By continuously asking oneself this question, we can reach . . . → Read More: Why NGOs should ask “Why” when writing project proposals? Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs cause, community interaction, community livelihood development, employment, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, ngo projects, problem, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, work, writing a project justification, writing project proposals, youth training in alternativel livelihoods We should not stop immediately after identifying just one cause. Remember that there are a chain of events that lead to a certain problem, and these events should be noted down. We have to address all possible causes to effectively get rid of the problem Problem Why? Cause Again Why? Further Causes A . . . → Read More: Analyzing Problems: Cause-Effect Relationship – NGO tool for writing proposals Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods The above table can become larger as we keep identifying more causes to the causes we have already identified. Once we think that we have arrived to the root of the cause and there is a possible solution that can be applied to it, we can stop and start writing the proposal. The solution is . . . → Read More: The Framework for NGOs to identify Problems, Causes, Issues & Solutions while writing project proposals Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs adequate financial resources, cause, community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihood opportunities, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, occupation, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, water, water scarcity, work, writing a project justification, writing project proposals, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Once the above-mentioned problem framework is ready, a lot of clarity will be achieved. With this framework, we know the problem, we know the effects and we know the root causes of these all. Besides, we also know the solution i.e. what we need to do and also for whom it needs to . . . → Read More: Writing the Problem Description in a NGO proposal for a community livelihood development project Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods However, we need to remember that after examining the problem and analyzing its cause and effect relationship, we also have to collect facts to support our observations. Your proposal can instantly get rejected if you do not supply facts because nobody is going to believe you until you have made references to the . . . → Read More: Compiling Facts for Projects while writing proposals Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenaterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods In some cases, research may just be not available. Suppose your project is about preventing human trafficking in your project area, but you may be surprised that there is absolutely no research data available about this. This can be very challenging. In such a case, NGOs themselves can undertake a quick . . . → Read More: How NGOs can collect facts when research is missing…Community interaction through focus group discussions Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community interaction, community livelihood development, fact finding, fgd, focus group discussions, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, project beneficiaries, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Once the Problem Description is ready, we need to write another separate paragraph for Project Justification. Project Justification is about trying to explain why we need to implement a particular solution to the problem we have narrated above. We need to tell donors why this is the best solution to address the problem. . . . → Read More: How to write a Project Justification in a proposal on community livelihood development project Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community livelihood development, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, livelihoods for the community, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, writing a project justification, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Once the Problem Description and Justification part of the proposal is complete, a good part of our work is done! We have explained the problem and we have justified the intervention. Now, we only need to explain how we are going to implement the intervention. The process of explaining the intervention . . . → Read More: Proposal Components in a Community Livelihood Development Project Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community livelihood development, goals and objectives, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, ngo problems, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, strategy, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Objectives are more specific and measurable. We have to be very careful in writing the objectives since these have to be monitored and achieved during the project implementation period. When we read through the solutions we have listed in our framework, we can easily develop our objectives for the project. Possible . . . → Read More: Objectives and Solutions: How to connect them while writing NGO project proposals Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community livelihood development, how to frame objectives, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, solutions for NGOs, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Once the Objectives are listed, the Strategy has to be written down. Strategy is the approach which has been adopted by the project to make the intervention. It is different from activities. Activities usually come under the Strategy. To develop the Strategy, look for the keywords that define action in the . . . → Read More: Developing Strategy for NGOs: Example Proposals Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community livelihood development, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, youth training in alternativel livelihoods Once the Strategy has been developed, the specific activities have to be listed under each of the components under it. For example: 1) Microfinance Strategy Promoting formation of self-help groups Promoting savings and credit activities in self-help groups Training the community members in self-help group management Linking self-help groups to banking institutions 2) . . . → Read More: Project Strategies for writing a project proposal for NGOs in a community livelihood development project Comments are closed Free Resources for NGOs community livelihood development, how write proposals for NGOs, LFA, logical framework analysis, marketing linkages for agriculature farmers, microenterprises for women, microfinance, ngo evaluation tools, ngo monitoring tools, proposal writing for ngos, savings and credit activities, self-help groups management, youth training in alternativel livelihoods 13 January 2010 Source Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is making a contribution of $38 million in new grants to support microfinance institutions (MFIs). These MFIs spread across 12 countries will use these grants to promote thrift activities among the poor. There are some highly innovative approaches adopted by the grant recipients to . . . → Read More: Bill Gates Foundation has announced the $38 million new grants for microfinance development Comments are closed Updates Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, funding, grants, microfinance, recipients Source: DGP – RFA – Request for Applications No. M/OAA/GRO/EGAS-DGP-10-001 The DGP will support the following [under the Microenterprise sector of the USAID’s Development Grants Program]: Inclusive Financial Markets Policy Environment for Micro and Small Enterprises Microenterprise Productivity USAID defines microenterprises as small-scale, often informally organized business activities undertaken . . . → Read More: Microenterprise Sector under USAID’s Development Grants Program Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs microenterprise, microfinance, policy, poverty, productivity The CUD (Cutting-edge International Trainings and Courses for Development) Scholarship Programme for the year 2010-2011 offers support to undertake international courses and trainings such as the European Masters in Microfinance, Master in Public Health – Guidance Health and Development, Master in International Economics and Development, Master in Development, Environment and Societies, Master in . . . → Read More: Developing Country Scholarships to Participate in International Courses and Training Programmes Comments are closed Scholarship Funds for NGOs funds, international, international development, microfinance, scholarship The 2010 Marketplace on Innovative Financial Solutions for Development (2010 MIF), organized jointly by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Bank on 4th and 5th March 2010 in Paris, has issued an invitation to NGOs, governmental agencies, private sector companies and other types of civil . . . → Read More: $100,000 Grant for NGOs to Submit Proposals on Ideas for Developing Financial Mechanisms to reduce Poverty and build Sustainable Livelihoods Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, competition, creativity, development, grant, innovation, microfinance, Microinsurance, MIF, world bank NGOs and microfinance institutions (MFIs) can apply for the Social Performance Reporting Award organized by the World Bank’s Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) in collaboration with the Micheal & Susan Dell Foundation, the Ford Foundation and the Social Performance Task Force and the award by powered by the Microfinance Information Exchange . . . → Read More: Award in Social Performance Reporting for NGOs involved in Microfinance Comments are closed Latest Funds for NGOs CGAP, Ford Foundation, microfinance, ngos, social performance, world bank CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest) is located at the World Bank, but it operates as an independent institution to increase microfinance services to the world’s poor. CGAP understands that credit is a critical tool to eliminate poverty and hence collaborates with different partners to provide these services to the poor communities in developing . . . → Read More: Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) |
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