[Oe List ...] microentrepreneurship

[Richard Alton]

Jim, there has been a lot of work done on microenterprise globally with ICA:
ICA Mena work with USAID in setting up village trust to manage village loan funds.ICA Nepal has a lot of experience in Village BankingOPAD (Zambia) has just finished two years of Women Self Help Groups that act as a savings/loan mechanism for women informal business ventures.ICA Tanzania has worked with Masai women to set up co-operatives that support their craft industry. They save 10% to be loaned out to other small businesses in the community.
ICA Zimbabwe has worked with forming women micro-credit groups that have been given grants to loan out to members. Zimbabwe will be launching a three year Rotary 3H grant to put 4,000 women and youth into Self Help Groups for income generation and social support These groups will grow into cluster organizations and, finanlly, into a people's financial institution.PS I am sure there is a lot more out there. Might check volume 2 of the IERD series.Hope this helps,
Dick
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Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 05:13:27 -0700
From: jfwiegel at yahoo.com
To: czaleski at ica-usa.org; oe at wedgeblade.net; springboard at wedgeblade.net; Dialogue at wedgeblade.net; globaltoptrainers at ica-topnet.org; ustoptrainers at ica-topnet.org
Subject: Re: [Oe List ...] microentrepreneurship

Picking our brains about ICA's 
/ ToP microenterprise experiences over the past 40 years? 

Cheryl Zaleski is looking for concrete 
examples to use for a microcredit program.  

Nothing much is coming to my mind.  

There is a fellow in Denver (Bob Samples) who has been connected and works with small loans, a couple in  Fort Collins (retired I think) who reworked ICA's old wisdom on community development for an organization called Village Earth (villageearth.org) that included microenterprise.  Jim Troxel did a series of economic development forums in Chicago neighborhoods,   The Oyler's through the Jacobs Foundation did strategic planning for a microcredit organization based in New Mexico.

I am sending this around to see who else may know of experiences.

Jim



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--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Cheryl Zaleski <czaleski at ica-usa.org> wrote:

From: Cheryl Zaleski <czaleski at ica-usa.org>
Subject: microentrepreneurship
To: "jfwiegel at yahoo.com" <jfwiegel at yahoo.com>
Date: Tuesday, July 7, 2009, 11:03 AM



 
Hi, 
Jim-
 
Would you be 
available some time this week so that I can pick your brain about ICA's 
microenterprise experiences over the past 40 years? I'm looking for concrete 
examples to use for the microcredit program.
 
Thanks,
 
Cheryl

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