NEPALFebruary 2004
| NEPAL February 2004 |
| In Nepal, the microfinance sector comprises a wide spectrum
of actors, such as numerous NGOs, government projects, five Regional Rural
Development Banks (RRDBs) partly owned by the Nepal Central Bank, four
private rural development banks as well as various types of savings and
credit cooperatives. The Grameen Bank model has had a major influence on
the development of the microfinance sector, through the establishment of
the rural development banks, public and private. The microfinance sector
also includes Apex organisations such as the Rural Microfinance
Development Centre (RMDC), the Rural Self Reliance Fund (RSRF). The Centre
for Micro-finance (CMF) is an independent networking and capacity-building
organisation.
In February 2004, in partnership with the Centre for Microfinance (CMF) the Banking with the Poor Network Secretariat conducted a series of individual consultations with leading practitioners and other supporters (wholesalers, government, central banks, training and networking organisations, commercial banks and regulated companies), which was the opportunity to build the base of a collaborative relationship with local organisations, to integrate them in the regional information sharing platform put in place by the BWTP network, the Asia Resource Centre for Microfinance (ARCM), and to collect essential and updated information. These consultations focussed on the four topics defined in the workshop organised on the 27 February 2004 in Kathmandu and presented below. Local experts and leading practitioners were asked to present relevant papers and to participate to discussion panels. The central theme of the workshop was "Sharing microfinance resources and knowledge in South Asia".
For each topic included in the workshop agenda, two to three speakers provided their views and perspectives through a short presentation, summarising in some cases in a more elaborated paper. For a presentation of the co-organiser, CMF, please click here. For other presentations and papers, please click on presentation or paper below.
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