Microfinance India

The Social Performance Report 2013
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-81-321-1736-0
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 216 mm x 279 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

Reihe: SAGE Impact

Microfinance India: The Social Performance Report, launched in 2011, is now an annual publication that captures the status and progress of microfinance sector in moving towards higher responsibility and social performance, alongside the growth in outreach and quantum of loans.

The Social Performance Report 2013 evaluates the prevalent responsible finance standards and tools of assessments, as well as attempts to initiate a framework for tracking composite performance, financial and social, of MFIs year on year on a set of metrics. The report presents a discourse on the status, innovative cases, and gaps, in policies and practices of MFIs, including a deeper study of human resource practices. The theme on role of investors and lenders in ensuring that social performance of MFIs continues from previous years, with an added scrutiny of the question of these institutions being responsible funders. The interplay of social performance and compliance to the existing regulatory guidelines for MFIs is analysed separately. This year’s report for the first time includes a chapter on applying the responsible finance lens on the SHG–bank linkage programme.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Srinivasan, Girija

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geldwirtschaft, Währungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword Radhika Agashe
Preface
Overview: Confidence returning to the sector- will credibility follow ?
Investors and lenders - demanding responsibility and also delivering?
Responsible finance standards and assessments – need for consolidation of tools and methodologies
Measuring and reporting social performance
Responsible financing practices In SHG—bank linkage programme
Regulations and responsible microfinance
Human resource practices in microfinance institutions
Unique institutions
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Srinivasan, Girija
Girija Srinivasan is an expert in development finance and rural livelihoods with more than 30 years of extensive experience of development banking, consulting, technical assistance and studies. After an initial career as a development banker for 14 years, she had taken to consulting working with a wide variety of international and national organisations. She has authored books and documents on community-based approaches in development finance and livelihoods. She has authored the Social Performance Report in Microfinance for four years, from 2011 to 2014. She authored the SOIL Report 2015 and 2016 jointly with N. Srinivasan. She serves on the board of FWWB and industry forums on themes of livelihoods and development finance.