Publications catalog: Microfinance
Mobilizing Savings for CAURIE-MF Clients in Senegal
Documents the experience of CAURIE-MF, a CRS partner in Senegal, with the design and launch of its new savings product.
Developing Agriculture Loan Products for Poor Rural Communities
Examines key lessons learned by Metemamen MF, a microfinance partner of CRS Ethiopia, during the pilot testing of a new loan product designed for rural poor farmers.
The Kibara Mission Hospital HIV Project, Tanzania
Describes the role that savings and internal lending approaches to microfinance has played in strengthening the economic wellbeing of HIV-affected households.
Savings and Internal Lending Communities
A compendium of field experience with savings-led microfinance as an element in a holistic approach to community development.
Checklist for an Internal Audit
Structured guidance to facilitate assessment of operations at a microfinance institution, intended especially for new internal auditors.
Review of MAGI Assessment Experiences in South East Asia
Findings and lessons learned from eleven CRS-managed MAGI organizational assessments of partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in Southeast Asia during 2003 and 2004.
Understanding Information Needs for MFIs
Practical guidance to microfinance institutions on information systems needs analysis.
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- SILC: Kibara Mission
Describes the role that savings and internal lending approaches to microfinance has played in strengthening the economic wellbeing of HIV-affected households.
Education and IHD
A manual to help CRS country programs and partner organizations use the IHD framework to assess and improve education programming.
Groundwater Development
This technical paper explains basic groundwater and well drilling concepts and shows how they can be employed to strengthen and expand water development programs.
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