UN Solution
Exchange What
is the Solution Exchange for the Microfinance Community? Click
here to sign up For further information about the
Microfinance Community email se-mf@solutionexchange-un.net.in Navin Anand
Microfinance Community
Solution Exchange: An Initiative of the United Nations Agencies in India
The Microfinance Community works to
reduce poverty through microfinance initiatives and innovations leading
to enhance financial inclusion; helping to develop appropriate
technical, organizational, operational and policy environment to
achieve MDGs relating to eradicate Extreme Poverty & Hunger and
targets set out in Eleventh Five Year Plan.
Solution Exchange connects the members of this Community
and increases the effectiveness of their individual efforts, helping
them share and apply each other's knowledge and experience. Through
Solution Exchange, colleagues can turn to their peers across India for
solutions to the day-to-day challenges they face.
What are some of
the issues covered by this Community?
• Creating an enabling policy and operational environment for promoting
financial inclusion
• Enhancing the 'depth' of microfinance by
addressing disadvantaged groups and 'breadth'
of microfinance in terms of reaching out to remote and
disadvantaged areas
• Microfinance for specific sub-sectors, cluster, for sustainable
livelihoods
• Delivery mechanisms- different approaches and models for delivery of
financial services, and their advantages and limitations
• Strengthening range of microfinance products and services
• Promoting Innovative products and diversification of Financial
Services
• Identification, propagation and use of innovative MF delivery
mechanisms
• Facilitating in development of organizational structures
• Focus on grassroots level microfinance operation issues
• Promoting new technologies, systems and tools for financial
inclusion, management of MF projects
Who are the leaders of this
Community?
The Community is guided by a "Resource Group" of individuals
representing key organizations and agencies in working in the field of
microfinance in India:
• Academic/Research institutions and Individual Experts
• Government and Public Sector Undertakings
• Not for Profit Institutions
• People's Organizations/Mutual Benefit
Organizations
• Private Organizations/For Profit Organizations
• International Organizations
The Community is facilitated by UNDP and ILO.
Resource
Person and Moderator
Solution
Exchange
United Nations Dvelopment Programme,
55,
Lodi Estate, New
Delhi-110003
Email:navin.anand@un.org.in
Monika Khanna
Research
Associate
Solution
Exchange
United
Nations Dvelopment Programme,
55,
Lodi Estate, New
Delhi-110003
Email: monika.khanna@un.org.in