| Country: BANGLADESH
Description of the Institution
With a vision of "a just, enlightened, healthy and democratic Bangladesh
free from hunger, poverty, environmental degradation and all forms of
exploitation based on age, sex, religion and ethnicity," BRAC started as
an almost entirely donor funded, small-scale relief and rehabilitation
projet to help the country overcome the devastation and trauma of the
Liberation War. Today, BRAC has emerged as an independent, virtually
self-financed paradigm in sustainable human development. It is the
largest in the world employing 97,192 people, with the twin objectives
of poverty alleviation and empowerment of the poor. BRAC implements a
comprehensive development approach, with a number of programmes for
economic and social development of the people. BRAC core programmes
include four main ones: BRAC Economic Development Programme, BRAC Social
Development, Human Rights and Legal Education Services Programme, BRAC
Education Programme and BRAC Health Programme.
Name of the student : Van Zundert Lonneke (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Outreach in microfinance,a case study of BRAC,
Bangladesh "
Description of the institution
ASA is one of the biggest MFIs in Bangladesh. It started (1978) with an
awareness program to help the poor people to lead a better life. But at
1991 it started the micro finance program. Now ASA has become a renowned
sustainable micro finance institution (MFI) globally.
During the long course of action, the institution evolved through
different phases, In 1978 to 1984 was the foundation phase, this time
ASA brought the grassroots poor people in focus & conducted
consciousness raising & training programs. In 1985 to 1991 was the
reformative phase, this time ASA shifted the focus to the basic social
unit family & implemented a comprehensive development program targeting
women?s empowerment. Development education, primary health, nutrition &
sanitation were the main products of this period. In 1992 to till now,
this time is called the program specialization. Here ASA focused
specialization in providing micro finance service through a low cost
delivery method to become self reliant, sustainable & independent of
donor funds.
ASA's main micro finance products are: savings & micro credit. They
have also Insurance program & have some health & education facilities
for their clients & staffs.
Now ASA has 6 million clients. It is covering 70,047 villages & has
6,382,328 active members. Its rate of recovery is 99.86%. ASA came out
successful in avoiding donor?s fund & attaining a self-sustainable
status in 2001.
ASA has provided consultancy services for implementing the ASA micro
finance model in many countries like the Philippines, Indonesia, India,
Pakistan, Yemen, & Nigeria.
Name of the student : Rafiza Rahman (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Why do Entities for the Development of Small and
Microenterprises lack competitive advantages in the Peruvian
Microfinance market ? The case of Edpyme Proempresa"
Country: CAMBODIA
Description of the Institution
MAXIMA MIKROHERANHVATHO CO., LTD was founded in March 2000 by a group of
friends both skilled and experienced in financial services. The
institution offers loan products in 127 villages within ten districts in
Kandal province and in the suburbs of the capital of Cambodia, Phnom
Penh. Its products include loans to rural individuals, groups and small
and medium businesses.
My research project with Maxima aimed at understanding corporate
governance issues related to the financing structure of the institution.
_Name of the student_ : Ludovic Urgeghe (2007-2008)
_Title of thesis_ :/ "Financing structure and corporate governance for
MFIs: is there an optimum to reach? The illustrative case of Maxima
Mikroheranhvatho, Cambodia" /
Country: INDIA
* *Internship: MicroSave India *
_Description of the institution_
/MicroSave /provides /practical, market-led solutions/ to assist their
clients /succeed and achieve /their mission and business objectives.
/MicroSave /is a team of experienced professionals that has been
operating for ten years and is ?the most reliable consulting firm for
financial service providers?. They provide premium quality technical
assistance and training based on an applied market-led approach to
providing financial services.**
_Name of the student_ : Ruth Hoffman (2007-2008)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Accounting for start-up Microfincance
Institutions" /
* *Internship: Bandhan*
_Description of the Institution_
Bandhan will provide services in micro-finance, micro entrepreneurship,
health, education and disaster management to the disadvantaged community
of the society, specially women and children.
_Name of the student_ : Michel van den Hove (2007-2008)
_Title of thesis_ :/ "Should Microfinance Institutions care about
Corporate Communication?" /
* *Internship: ABN AMRO *
_Description of the institution_
ABN AMRO Bank (India) has an eight decade long experience of the Indian
business scenario. ABN AMRO Bank has also launched its microfinance
program in India. The program is aimed at delivering credit to the poor
women of India, especially in the rural Countrys, through Microfinance
Institutions.
_Name of the student_ : Pires Anna (2005-2006)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Global commercial banks and microfinance. Evidence
from ABN AMRO bank in India"/
* *Internship: Bandhan*
_Description of the Institution_
Bandhan will provide services in micro-finance, micro entrepreneurship,
health, education and disaster management to the disadvantaged community
of the society, specially women and children.
_Name of the student_ : Camus Lionel (2005-2006)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Lowering the transaction costs from a client
perspective - Lessons from Bandhan, India
"/
* *Internship: Bandhan*
_Description of the Institution_
Bandhan will provide services in micro-finance, micro entrepreneurship,
health, education and disaster management to the disadvantaged community
of the society, specially women and children.
_Name of the student_ : Perilleux Anaïs (2005-2006)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Is voluntary savings activity an interesting
opportunity for both Bandhan institution and its clients? And how could
this activity be launched"/
* *Internship: Bandhan*
_Description of the institution_
BANDHAN is a microfinance institution (MFI) delivering microcredit in
West Bengal. This MFI is growing very fast and is now reaching more than
500000 borrowers. Loans are targeting poor people both in rural and
urban areas. BANDHAN is not only focused on microcredit but on different
microfinance subjects dedicated on poverty alleviation.
_Name of the student_ : Alice Benoist (2006-2007)
_Title of thesis_ : /"//The management of operational risk in MFI. The
case of Bandhan/"/ /
* *Internship: Institut Français de Pondicherry*
_Description of the Institution_
L'IFP, centre de recherche du Ministère Français des Affaires
Etrangères, rempli des missions de recherche, d'expertise et de
formation en indologie, sciences sociales et écologie dans le Sud et le
Sud-Est asiatique.__
L?IFP a trois missions de base : recherche, expertise et formation
L?Institut a pour vocation d?intervenir en Asie du Sud et du Sud-Est.
Ses Champs de recherche sont : savoirs et Patrimoine Culturel Indiens,
dynamiques Sociales Contemporaines transformations des Thérapies et des
Systèmes de Santé, Environnement et Développement Durable
_Name of the student_ : Vanroose Annabel (2005-2006)
_Title of thesis_ : /"/The uneven development of the microfinance
sector: a Latin American and Indian perspective
/"/
* *Internship: LAMP*
_Description of the institution_:
LAMP was founded in 1979 after a meeting attended by 27 Indian tribal
young men and women, who discussed how the socio-economic conditions of
oppressed and exploited communities could be developed towards their
empowerment. Since then LAMP gradually marched on as a non- profit,
non-political and secular organisation and it has now become a national
level social welfare organisation working for the sustainable
development of the socio-economically backward, culturally oppressed,
politically under privileged and disadvantaged group of people of both
rural and urban India. LAMP?s mission involves empowering people of
weaker sections and their environment by undertaking all-round
sustainable and equitable action programmes, including: Integrated
Programme for street children, Women Resource Development Centre
(DISHARI), Joint Forest Management, Health Interventions, among others.
Microfinance and Livelihood Development Programme is developed within
DISHARI Division. LAMP provides saving and lending products based on
self-help group approaches. As of September 2007, the institution offers
microfinance services to 30000 women.
_Name of the student_ : Nancy Ibarra (2006-2007)
_Title of thesis_ : Assessing Management of Microfinance Institutions
Country: INDONESIA
* *Internship: German GTZ & ILO*
_Description of the Institution_
Internship at both the GTZ (German Technical Cooperation) and the ILO
(International Labour Organization) in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. Both
organisations run programmes in the field of microfinance and the GTZ is
in charge of the donor coordination process in this area.
The German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) has been involved in Indonesia,
one of the priority countries of German Development Cooperation, since
1975 on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation
and Development (BMZ). Economic Recovery and Microfinance in the
province of Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam is a project launched after the
devastating Tsunami of 2004 in order to kickstart the local economy.
Aiming to promote decent work for all, the International Labour
Organization
(ILO), second host of the intern, has also become involved in the field of
microfinance in Aceh following the 2004 disaster.
_Name of the student_ : Sebastian Trenner (2006-2007)
_Title of thesis_ : /"//Donors and post-conflict/crisis Microfinance
programs. A case for a coordinated
//approach? Banda Aceh
case study"/
Country: PHILIPPINES
* *Internship: Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF)*
_Description of the institution_
NWTF is a non-governmental organization that aims at empowering women
economically and socially by giving them access to financial assistance
using the credit methodology patterned after the Grameen Bank in
Bangladesh. NWTF's mission is to create opportunities for the
self-employed by providing poor people with access to integrated credit
facilities; and to reduce the exploitation of the poor by money-lenders
through a comprehensive credit program. Global actions are to undergo a
qualitative expansion strategy by re-evaluating its product, processes
and systems (revising old policies, reading the feedback from clients,
...) in order to operate more efficiently and grow sustainably in the
future.
_Name of the student_ : Flavia Micilotta (2007-2008)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Saving Micro-Crop from desaster?"
/
* *Internship: CARD-MRI Development Institute*
_Description of the Institution_
A group of 15 rural development practitioners organized the Center for
Agriculture and Rural Development (CARD) Inc. Its vision has always been
to establish a bank created for, owned and managed by landless rural
women. A training-focused community and livelihood assistance program
for landless coconut workers marked the start of CARD Inc.?s operation.
In April 1988 CARD Inc. launched the Landless People?s Development Fund
(LPDF) as its flagship program in 1990 twin goals of outreach and
sustainability
_Name of the student_ : Rulloda Jacqueline (2005-2006)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Health Microinsurance Models in the Philippines :
how to meet the demand? The cases of ORT Community Multi-purpose
Cooperative and CARD MBA"/
* *Internship: Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF)*
_Description of the institution_
NWTF is a non-governmental organization that aims at empowering women
economically and socially by giving them access to financial assistance
using the credit methodology patterned after the Grameen Bank in
Bangladesh. NWTF's mission is to create opportunities for the
self-employed by providing poor people with access to integrated credit
facilities; and to reduce the exploitation of the poor by money-lenders
through a comprehensive credit program. Global actions are to undergo a
qualitative expansion strategy by re-evaluating its product, processes
and systems (revising old policies, reading the feedback from clients,
...) in order to operate more efficiently and grow sustainably in the
future.
_Name of the student_ : Sarah Kuntz (2006-2007)
_Title of thesis_ : /"Explorative Market Research on the Resurrection
Loan - Case Study of Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (Philippines)"
/
Country: THAILAND
* *Internship: Government savings Bank of Thaïland*
_Description of the Institution_
The bank's mission is to bring optimum benefits to all people in the
nation especially those who are in the grass roots level. GSB also
concentrates on strengthening the society to ensure that it can stand on
its own feet and also be adaptable with the continuous changes. Building
a strong network is also one of the main focuses.
GSB plays a role as the bank for the people by solving the economic
crisis and poverty problems for the unemployed and poor people in order
to stimulate employment and earnings for them to depend on their own.
GSB's services can be considered as a social welfare that supports and
educates general public including juvenile, students and the blue
collars on savings by providing savings and financial services.
_Name of the student_ : Ajetunmobi Olumayowa Wole (2006-2007)
_Title of thesis_ : /"/Credit delivery and savings mobilisation in
microfinance institution: a case study of government savings bank of
Thailand/"/
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