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Notes From the Field: Village Banking at Work >
pkelly
• 05/26/10
• Posted in microfinance, oikocredit, Peru, poverty, ppi, Prisma
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On my last day in Huancayo, I saw two examples of village banking that showed why this approach works for PRISMA in Peru. “Village banking strengthens social networks,” PRISMA Director Diego Fernandez told me. It is the best way to educate and motivate clients, he says, because they can learn from and support each other.

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Notes From the Field: PRISMA Entrepreneurs in Huancayo >
pkelly
• 05/26/10
• Posted in oikocredit, Peru, poverty, ppi, Prisma
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In the Peruvian city of Huancayo, PRISMA microfinance clients clearly are urban entrepreneurs. Two have located their small businesses in a downtown mini-mall. Ana Pomasonco is a photographer who keeps a small studio there. She specializes in passport photos.

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Notes From The Field: Pat on the Road to Pampas >
pkelly
• 05/21/10
• Posted in case study, microfinance, oikocredit, Peru, ppi, Prisma
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It is not so easy to get to Pampas. Our group—Norma Rosas from PRISMA, Yolirruth Nunez, social monitoring officer with Oikocredit, and myself—set out from the nearest city, Huancayo.

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Oikocredit and Plan International Join Forces to Advance PPI Use in Cambodia >
PreetiWali
• 03/10/10
• Posted in Cambodia, oikocredit, Plan International, ppi
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“Synergy in action.” “Exhausting but exhilarating and exciting!” These are descriptions by key organizers of a recent PPI Training of Trainers (TOT) in Phnom Penh, where the first Cambodia PPI was rolled out last month.

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Pioneering the PPI™ in Cambodia >
PreetiWali
• 02/19/10
• Posted in Cambodia, oikocredit, Plan International, ppi, training
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--Guest blog by Ben Simmes of Oikocredit--

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PUCA: Creating New Microfinance Partnerships in the Field >
PreetiWali
• 02/18/10
• Posted in Africa, crs, Mali, oikocredit, Planet Rating, ppi, PUCA, Senegal, Terrafina
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Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the poorest regions in the world. Grameen Foundation wanted to find the best way to help microfinance institutions in the region achieve their mission of moving their clients out of poverty - and so PUCA was born.

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Notes from the Field: Asia Training Tour, Social Investing in the Philippines >
PreetiWali
• 02/12/10
• Posted in Kiva, oikocredit, Philippines, social investing, social performance
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Following the PPI Data Analysis training, Mary Jo Kochendorfer and Cris Lomboy joined other discussion leaders at a Social Investing Workshop. Their panel, Opportunities and Challenges in Social Investment, focused on shared experiences among MFIs and technical assistance providers in promoting social performance. The panel examined the role of social investment as an incentive for increasing social performance activities among organizations.

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Notes from the Field: Asia Training Tour, PPI Data Analysis  >
PreetiWali
• 02/11/10
• Posted in data analysis, mcpi, oikocredit, Philippines, PLC, ppi
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Mary Jo Kochendorfer and Cris Lomboy from Grameen Foundation’s Social Performance Management Center launched a two-week training tour for microfinance institutions (MFIs) in the Philippines and India. In Manila, the first stop, the team trained members of the Philippines Social Performance Management (SPM) Peer Learning Community (PLC) to analyze data gathered by the Progress out of Poverty Index™ (PPI™).

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