Titre de série : | REPORT OF A WORKSHOP | Titre : | Community finance : the news from Asia and Africa | Type de document : | texte imprimé | Auteurs : | Thomas KERR ; Diana MITLIN ; Thailande. ACHR | Congrès : | Workshop on Poverty reduction in urban areas: November 2007 | Mention d'édition : | 1ere edition | Editeur : | International Institute for Environment and Development | Année de publication : | 2008/08 | Importance : | Vol 1, No 19 (pp. x-y) | ISBN/ISSN/EAN : | 978-1-84369-715-2 | Langues : | Anglais | Mots-clés : | AFRIQUE THAILANDE PHILIPPINES | Résumé : | This report illustrates both the diversity of approaches to savings and credit, and the ways in which savings-related activities have led to numerous interventions across a spectrum of development needs. It draws on both the plenary presentations and working group conversations. The highlights of the discussion in the savings working group emphasized the importance of iclusion especially with the practise of daily savings. Such daily saving creates trust, building strong local organizations. Savings also helps to address a range of livehood strategies and reduces the debt burdens of those with loans from informal moneys lenders. Savings also helps communities secure access to governments funds. The community fund is a new direction and the way the fund performs allows more freedom and flexible action to people's process , to drive differnts types of change. The fund allows people under a particular constituency to forge a common direction and gives them more freedom. When you add power to these small, dispersed community savings funds, you pull them together into a 'change direction' and make them stronger. The community development fund pulls them together, changes direction and makes it stronger, even if the funds are not large. The idea is to link them into the same direction' | Permalink : | http://enda-cremed.org/bpd/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=25289 |
REPORT OF A WORKSHOP. Community finance : the news from Asia and Africa [texte imprimé] / Thomas KERR ; Diana MITLIN ; Thailande. ACHR / Workshop on Poverty reduction in urban areas: November 2007 . - 1ere edition . - [S.l.] : International Institute for Environment and Development, 2008/08 . - Vol 1, No 19 (pp. x-y). ISBN : 978-1-84369-715-2 Langues : Anglais Mots-clés : | AFRIQUE THAILANDE PHILIPPINES | Résumé : | This report illustrates both the diversity of approaches to savings and credit, and the ways in which savings-related activities have led to numerous interventions across a spectrum of development needs. It draws on both the plenary presentations and working group conversations. The highlights of the discussion in the savings working group emphasized the importance of iclusion especially with the practise of daily savings. Such daily saving creates trust, building strong local organizations. Savings also helps to address a range of livehood strategies and reduces the debt burdens of those with loans from informal moneys lenders. Savings also helps communities secure access to governments funds. The community fund is a new direction and the way the fund performs allows more freedom and flexible action to people's process , to drive differnts types of change. The fund allows people under a particular constituency to forge a common direction and gives them more freedom. When you add power to these small, dispersed community savings funds, you pull them together into a 'change direction' and make them stronger. The community development fund pulls them together, changes direction and makes it stronger, even if the funds are not large. The idea is to link them into the same direction' | Permalink : | http://enda-cremed.org/bpd/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=25289 |
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