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Association for Sustainable Community Development (ASSCOD)
: Association for Sustainable Community Development (ASSCOD) is a registered development organisation working for women empowerment in the rural areas of Tamilnadu (India). Under their ASSCOD Women Development Project, they organized 100 well performing women Self Help Groups (SHGs) with 2000 women members.
The organization also builds the capacity of women in 4 major areas, understanding the concept of Self Help, leadership management, Accounts and Networking (Linkages). The major activities of the women groups are thrift and credit(Micro Financing Activities).
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Bellwether Microfinance Fund
: The Fund is managed by Caspian Advisors, a private Fund Management company dedicated to the Microfinance sector. Bellwether offers a whole range of financial services including equity (common and preference) convertibles, term loans, short-term loans, market access and advisory services.
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Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST)
: "Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust (BYST)" is a non-profit organization established to assist disadvantaged youth who wants to start or develop their own businesses. This assistance includes finance, mentoring, professional advice, networking, marketing support, training and counseling till the venture takes off.
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Centre for Good Governance (CGG)
: The Centre for Good Governance (CGG) was established by the Government of Andhra Pradesh (GoAP) to help it achieve the State's goal of Transforming Governance. CGG coordinates and supports the designing and implementation of GoAP's Governance Reform Program. CGG undertakes action research, provides professional advice to, and conducts change management programs for, government departments and agencies to help them implement their reform agenda successfully.
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Centre for Rural Development (CRD)
: Centre for Rural Development (CRD) is a non profit organisation working in the field of livelihood since 1994. CRD runs the Rickshaw Bank project (A national award winning concept)in Guwahati, Assam.
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Community Development Centre
: CDC is registered voluntary organization working in Madhya Pradesh state. Main activities of the organization are Women empowerment, Community Health, Education, Environment and Livelihood. Presently working with CARE and DFID
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DHAN Foundation
: DHAN (Development of Humane Action) Foundation, a not-for-profit organization works in the field of Microfinance, Tank-fed Agriculture Development, IT, Panchayats and Dry Land farming projects in 6 states of India.
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Indian School of Microfinance for Women
: The Indian School of Microfinance for Women shall cater to the capacity building needs of the various stakeholders of the School, like CBFI (Community Based Financial Institution) members and leaders, NGO/MFI staff and trainers, bankers and policy-makers. One of the focus areas of the School shall be to build the managerial capabilities of the women leadership in microfinance sector. It will also act as a bridge between the mainstream financial institutions and the CBFIs, helping them work together. It will create a cadre of trained managers and leaders who will further the microfinance movement.
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Kalpavriksham Charitable Trust
: The Public Non Profitable Charitable Trust works with deprived and marginalized sections of the Andhra Pradesh traditional professionals. The trust's main objectives are:
To empower the economically marginalized.
To Enlighten the socially depressed.
To uplift the downtrodden and to support the economically disabled women & children of the deceased in different traditional professions.
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Lok Capital
: The "Lok Capital" (or People's Capital) initiative was launched at the end of 2001 with a grant support from the Rockefeller Foundation.
The objectives of the initiative are:
Mobilize and direct private (mainly equity) capital to fund micro-finance activities first and foremost in India, but eventually also elsewhere in the world.
Fund/provide long term management and technical support for the development of commercially sustainable MFIs.
Disseminate information about, and inform the public policy debate on, innovative ways of empowering the poor, especially poor women and the rural poor.
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Margdarshak Community Development Support Services Pvt. Ltd
: Margdarshak is a technical service provider with specialization in micro enterprise and microfinance development. Established by a group of development professionals who with them carry over 50 person years of professional experience the organisation has technical expertise in providing capacity building, research, mentoring and documentation services.
It specializes in enabling organizations in strategizing, conceptualizing, developing and implementing need based interventions in enterprise promotion and mf development. Margdarshak is also involved in implementation of model building field projects in these 2 areas. Margdarshak is based in North India and provides services with specific focus on the region.
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Nava Jyothi
: Nava Jyothi organisation works in rural part of INDIA. Nava jyothi is involved in micro finance activity with 20000 clients with an amount of $800000.
Navajyothi strives to enable poor rural household and communities to be self reliant and sustainable.
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Sa-Dhan
: Sa-Dhan's mission is to build the field of community development finance in India, to help its member and associate institutions to better serve low income households, particularly women, in both rural and urban India, in their quest for establishing stable livelihoods and improving their quality of life.
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Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) India
: The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a registered trade union working with women in the unorganised sector since 1972. It is based in Ahmedabad, India. Membership in the trade union is almost 7,00,000. Members are mostly often hawkers and vendors, home-based workers and manual laborers and service providers and small producers. The SEWA scheme covers health insurance (including a small maternity benefit component), life insurance (death and disability) and asset insurance (loss of damage to housing unit or work equipment). SEWA members can choose whether to become members of the scheme (at present, approximately 25% of all SEWA members are insured or 1,40,000 persons). Membership and claims processing is done by VimoSEWA or SEWA Insurance.
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Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI)
: SIDBI is the principal financial institution for the promotion, financing and development of industry in the small scale sector and to co-ordinate the functions of the institutions engaged in the promotion and financing or developing industry in the small scale sector and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
It is the Principal Development Financial Institution for :
Promotion;
Financing;
Development of Industries in the small scale sector, and
Co-ordinating the functions of other institutions engaged in similar activities.
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The Centre for Micro Finance Research (CMFR)
: CMFR aims to catalyze and support empirical research evaluating the impact of access to financial services. The Centre will support research initiatives aimed at understanding innovations and designs that have the potential to overcome information asymmetries characteristic of this market and expand access to financial services for under-served segments.
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The Saraswathy Shanmugam Public Charitable Trust (SSPCT)
: The Trust is dedicated in the enlistment of rural poor through self help groups for women, youth and the old aged. Establishement of SHGs - Skill Development, entrepreneruship, vocaitonal trianing, self employemnt training are conducted for their sustainable income generation activities.
The Trust established an Industrial Trianing Center for this purpose the center accredited with the National Institute of Open Schooling, Ministry of Human Resources and Development and affilited with the National Council for Vocational Training, Ministry of Labor, Government of India for conducting vocational trainings. Nearly 200 rural youths are promoted every year for the self employment/entrepreneurship/employment.
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Udyogini
: Udyogini is an NGO the works to build the capacity of poor women as entrepreneurs through promotion of their microenterprises. Its methodology of support is through business training, handholding, market information and linkage building, catalyzing and counselling business associations created by and for poor women. It has grassroots projects on embroidery, forest products and urban services. It also undertakes training for NGOs and poor women in business management.
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Ujjivan Financial Services (P) Limited
: Ujjivan is a start up microfinance company based in Bangalore. The initial focus of the organization is to provide financial services to the urban & semi-urban economically active poor women. Ujjivan will be set up in collaboration with Grameen Bank of Bangladesh. It will combine the customer relationship model of Grameen Bank with retail banking technology & processes. The program is being tested in Bangalore before it is rolled out to other cities.
Ujjivan is a profit making Non Banking Financial Company, with a minimum capital of Rs.20 Million. The objective is to run it as a viable business, which can be scaled up to a million customers in 5-7 years. The Company plans to build a unique organization to meet its social & financial objectives. |
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Unity Charitable Trust
: Unity Charitable Trust is in the fields of women, children, disabled and the aged. Women's self help groups are formed under the direct control of the organisation. Microcredit programmes will be started shortly.
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Vivekananda Seva Kendra-O-Sishu Uddyan
: Objectives
Institutional
To build a sustainable MFI with a strong governance, effective management systems, and an effecient delivery mechanisim.
To provide the rural poor a range of quality financial services.
To provide the rural poor opportunities for social development through direct interventions and alliances.
Programmatic
To provide a range of credit, savings and social security services to at least 40,000 clients by 2007.
To achieve an active outstanding portfolio of Rs. 150 millions($3M) with optimal quality to achieve scale, sustainability and impact.
To promote agriculture, allied and small enterprises through skills development.
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