“The SE provides a unique medium through which practitioners could be consulted on sector wide trends. One should expect to see even greater collaboration and participation in future between SE and industry level tasks such as evaluations, assessments, new product design and problem solving. Its membership variety and democratic character makes it a powerful medium of distilling information and knowledge.”

N.Srinivasan, State of the Sector Report for Microfinance, Pune

“I would like to pay my heartiest thanks to members of MF community for providing me excellent inputs regarding my business development services query.”

Vikash Kumar, Grameen Koota, Bangalore

“I have been an active member of the Work and Employment and Microfinance Communities… I consider your Consolidated Reply and Update as the most useful info and store it for reference…”

N. Jeyaseelan, Formerly with Indian Bank, Madurai

“Let me congratulate you for creating such a wonderful platform ‘Solution Exchange’. This is a great network of idea sharing and information gathering.” 

Piyush Kumar, Tata AIG Insurance Company Pvt. Ltd., New Delhi

“This UN initiative is indeed a great experience sharing platform. Looking at wide participation and the quality of debate, it is apparent that the entire microfinance community in the country is benefiting from your painstaking work especially the summing up done at the end of each debate.”

Brij Mohan, ACCESS Development Services, New Delhi

“…To me the most important benefit is the timely update on latest developments related to various programmes like NREGA (National Rural Employment Guarantee Act), RTI (Right to Information), Microfinance, etc. The exchange seems to convert a lot of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge…”

C. S. Reddy, APMAS, Hyderabad

“The Consolidated Reply on Designing Credit Risk Assessment Tools to Reach the Poor is an excellent document. In fact, the responses from members and the consolidation will greatly help me in taking forward my research in field…”

Rohit Raina, ICICI Bank, Mumbai

“The query on savings services was particularly relevant and very timely too. Thanks for the excellent consolidation.”  

Smita Premchander, Sampark, Bangalore