Microfinance Learning Quest: Locate

	Microfinance Gateway
	The Microfinance Gateway is an online resource for the microfinance industry. It includes an FAQ, research and publications, specialised resource cent...
	Trickle Up Entrepreneurs: the Lowest-Income People Help Themselves
	The Trickle-Up Program targets the poorest, most vulnerable people who are often underserved by other microfinance programs. These people include wome...
	Microcredit Fallout
	A UNESCO-backed microcredit programme is helping poor Jordanian women to start up business and educate their children. The Microcredit Programme for C...

Microfinance cooperatives

	Opportunity International Australia
	Opportunity International (OIA) seeks transformation in the lives of poor men and women in developing countries. It provides entrepreneurs with access to capital and business training to start and expand small businesses. Opportunity enables people t...
	Microcredit Summit Campaign - Best Practice
	This set of best practices in microcredit was developed by leaders in microcredit, government, business, banking, and the non-profit sector as part of the Microcredit Summit. Covers: Ensuring Loan Repayment; Moving Toward Institutional Sustainability...
	CowFund: A Hand Up, Not Handout
	CowFund is an Australian not-for-profit initiative that aims to support the delivery of microcredit projects in developing communities in Asia. Often the microcredit projects supported by CowFund involve the provision of cows and other livestock to n...
	Microfinance Idea Card
	The IdeaCard is a collection of good practices and inspiring ideas in microfinance. They are taken from microfinance initiatives in Asia, Africa and Latin America. The IdeaCard is intended to be a menu of options that can be used to design, develop a...

Microenterprise developers

	Microfinance: Stressing the Human Angle
	Stories highlighting the human angle of microfinance. Stories of ordinary people being able to overcome extraordinary odds, access to credit, skills gained, enterprises begun, of markets opened up, and homes built and children sent to school....
	Borrower Success Stories (Microcredit Summit Campaign)
	Short stories of borrowers of small amounts of money to develop microenterprises in countries including: Ethopia, Zaire, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh....
	Defining Entrepreneurship
	This article by Paul De-Masi asks the questions: what is entrepreneurship and can you measure it? It concludes with the warning that the entrepreneurial characteristics required to launch a business successfully are often not those required for growt...
	International Year of Microcredit 2005: What Clients Say
	Stories of poor and low-income clients that have benefited from access to the financial services being highlighted in the International Year of Microcredit....
	Women Vision International (WVI) Success Stories
	Women Vision International (WVI) is a not-for-profit organisation that provides loans and training to help women worldwide become economically self-sufficient. The Success Stories section of their website includes the story of Madam Fuku, Queen Mothe...