While MicroSave has always focused on providing high quality technical services to its clients, the diversity of its offerings continues to grow – both in terms of the focus and nature of its services, and in terms of its geographic spread. This newsletter highlights work on: These initiatives are taking place throughout India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia … and MicroSave is preparing to initiate work in Vietnam as well. The newsletter also highlights the Applied Microfinance Institute – Africa 2010, where plenary presentations were provided on Equity Bank, by James Mwangi the CEO of Equity Bank, on M-PESA by Pauline Vaughan the M-PESA Product Manager at Safaricom. Watch for details of the next Applied Microfinance Institute – Asia 2011, which is coming very soon. - Two large-scale research programmes focused on savings services and financial inclusion as well as the role mobile money might play;
- Training and technical assistance on the governance that is so critical for robust and successful microfinance institutions;
- Market research and product development for youth;
- A large, and very timely, Social Performance Management (SPM) programme focused on improving products and systems to optimise the impact as well as client and staff retention of some of the largest MFIs in India;
- Detailed process mapping to support and strengthen both SHG- and banking correspondent-based systems through optimising the risk-efficiency trade-offs in their delivery systems; and
- Work to support a rural bank as well as two programmes designed to strengthen over 50 small-medium microfinance institutions serving niche markets.
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