Hello All, I tried to get this article but did not succeed, Can any one help me retrieving it. Batliwala, S. (1993) Empowerment of Women in South Asia:...
Thought this debate on men and masculinities - beyond the personal might well be of interest to many of you working on gender and microfinance. Linda From:...
Dear all, As the Microcredit Summit is nearing let us start interacting with each other more in order to make sure we get ahead in our mission to raise Gender...
Thanks Namrata, As a starting point to this debate people might like to look at the report produced from a genfinance workshop in Chennai in November 2006: ...
Dear All and Salma , While trying to find the article Salma wanted I hit on the following two articles. I found them very interesting so thought others might...
Increasing women's access, control and ownership of assets is an important factor in empowering women. In enterprise financing, women on average receive much...
Dear all, There was a great piece posted by Sejal Dand from ANNDI yesterday any comments from anyone else on that? I also wanted to inform you that recently...
Dear all, As Namrata said we are now gearing up for the Asia-Pacific MicroCredit Summit. Last week we got final confirmation for all the gender events we are ...
Dear Friends, Responding to Namrata Sharma's call to join the Gender Debate and Micro-financing for Gender Justice, I would very much to like to join the Forum...
Dear all, I am currently finishing a Reader on gender and rural micro-finance for IFAD. As part of that I am trying to work on a number of areas of innovation...
Dear all, As advertised below the opening session of APRMS will be a presentation on commercialisation and Compartamos. Do any of our Latin American...
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Dear all, I have now uploaded a revised version of the Consumer Protection Principles based on comments from contributors to devfinance and MicroFinance...
Dear Mr Reddy, As part of an effeort to raise issues related to women's empowerment thorough Microfinance some of us are creating a debate and...
Dear Mr Reddy, Thank you for responding. We would indeed welcome the participation of Indian Cooperative Union (ICU) and Cooperative Development...
Dear Friends, As an Office bearer of the Rotary Club here in Calcutta,I would like to post an observation where Micro credit Financing was put to use in the...
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It was a good point in deed Linda, When women wish to take up larger loans they do face lots of social, cultural and even legal issues. For...
Dear all, Â Sejal Dand has sent a paper on on the subject of Social justice, empowerment of women and Micfofinance which I have uploaded please feel free to...
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Thanks Beatrice, This is an important issue. Do husbands have to bring the consent or guarantee of their wives? What should be our response? - Should...
This is a moot point in all poor developing countries which are also patriarchal in the social set up. Hence the woman is more often than not a front for the...
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I am not sure excluding men is the answer per se, but perhaps understanding men’s financial obstacles and needs and addressing them thorough separate or...
Hello Everyone, I'm initiating a small pilot study connected to women's entrepreneurship in Nepal. Financing is a big issue obviously, and for bank loans...
Dear Brenda, Just read your mail enquiring about information on Women in Nepal. We are fortunate to have with us the Moderator of this GENFINANCE interest...
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I am happy the question of husband's consent while a women borrowing from a Bank. As a grassroot worker for 15 years, i am getting at least few hundreds of...
I need to know from participants of India Priya Bajaj, Gomathy and Narmatha to react on the legal issues on this. Currently Banking Law in India says that the...
Dear Brenda, It would be useful still to have this discussion through genfinance – and for Namrata and others to put all the information on gender and...
Dear Linda, Thank you very much for your prompt and informative reply. The women I have interviewed have had no access to microfinance in Kathmandu. From the...