B. Anjaneyulu is a graduate in General and Advance Management. He has a career of nearly two decades, with rich experience at various levels within the development sector. Over the years he has worked at mid and senior management levels in different organisations involved in livelihood promotion and microfinance. He has been involved in supporting a variety of organisations through training, technical support and consultancy services.
He has developed tools and models for assessing capacities of Self Help Groups, and authored several papers on Self Help Groups. He has done extensive work in the areas of federating SHGs and in community ownership of developmental initiatives. His area of interest lies in supporting client-owned institutions and providing capacity building inputs to all types of MFIs to improve management systems and practices.
Anjaneyulu has worked on market research for microfinance, process mapping, rapid institutional assessment, pilot-testing, individual lending and strategic business planning for a wide variety of MicroSave-supported MFIs across India and the Philippines. Recently he spearheaded work on the development of MFI Out Of A Box for SHG-based MFIs including filming of the key processes. Anjan heads the community-based financial services practice group at MicroSave and plays a key role in the implementation of the Action Research Partner (ARP) and training/practice-oriented research programmes, which are largely focused on improving financial inclusion and the quality of services provided to the poor. This means that he works with a wide range of institutions including banks, MFIs, cooperatives, technology platform providers and MNOs on strategy and operations of e-/m-banking systems.





