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Project name: Microfinance Program

Start date: FY 1999

End date: FY 2006

Project description:
The program developed micro-finance mechanisms as a way of improving financial intermediation, mobilizing capital, and enhancing the competitiveness of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises. Two credit schemes — Opportunity International/ Nachala Cooperative and Catholic Relief Services/ Ustoi — provided entrepreneurs with access to non-banking financial services, with a particular focus on less economically developed regions. Both individual and group lending was provided.

Implementer: Oportunity International Catholic Relief Services Ustoi Nachala Cooperative

Funding: $6,638,000