"We are willing to work in the field of Micro Finance & Micro Insurance and looking for resource person , who could guide us for the same.Please help us to get our aim.
With Regards
LCVS NGO
lcvs.ngo@gmail.com
Almora(Uttarakhand),India"
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Is Microfinance a Hack? I Beg to Differ
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The recent crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India triggered a rigorous debate about the merits and viability of microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation. Stories of over-indebted borrowers committing…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by SM Farid Uddin Akhter Jan 16, 2011.
Microinsurance's potential
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A new Swiss Re sigma study just came out, titled "Microinsurance - Risk Protection for 4 Billion People".…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Nita Nehru Dec 22, 2010.
Social Business - A field of dreams? Or the next big thing?
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Conferences can be a good indicator of the health of an industry, and by that measure the emerging sector of “social entrepreneurship” appears to be booming. The third annual SOCAP conference last…Continue
Tags: Conference, Entrepreneurship, SOCAP, social business, Citizen
Started this discussion. Last reply by Abner T. Ramos Mar 6, 2011.
Marketing Microinsurance
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We always get some great discussions going on the SEEP Network with our blog posts, so I'd like to post our most recent blog and hear everyone's thoughts!!! …Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Sasidhar Thumuluri Nov 23, 2010.
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Nita Nehru posted a discussionIs Microfinance a Hack? I Beg to Differ
The recent crisis in Andhra Pradesh, India triggered a rigorous debate about the merits and viability of microfinance as a tool for poverty alleviation. Stories of over-indebted borrowers committing suicide and microfinance institutions charging exorbitant, sky-high interest rates are rampant in the media. Looking at the facts and studying the alternatives, I believe the skepticism surrounding microfinance is premature and the hostility towards it is somewhat misplaced. First, let’s take a…See More
Nita Nehru posted a discussionMicroinsurance's potential
A new Swiss Re sigma study just came out, titled "Microinsurance - Risk Protection for 4 Billion People".http://media.swissre.com/documents/sigma6_2010_en.pdf As someone interested in and working on Microinsurance, this was fascinating to me -- really validated what myself and my coworkers at Avana Microinsurance are trying to achieve. But I wanted to start a discussion surrounding other peoples' thoughts on microinsurance as a…See More
Nita Nehru posted a discussionSocial Business - A field of dreams? Or the next big thing?
Conferences can be a good indicator of the health of an industry, and by that measure the emerging sector of “social entrepreneurship” appears to be booming. The third annual SOCAP conference last week in San Francisco drew more than 1,300 people paying as much as $1,395 a ticket, and you could feel the energy among the amalgam of philanthropists, foundations, investors and idealistic entrepreneurs. (NY Times / Bay Citizen)Avana mentions this story in our blog post this week entitled "Field of…See More
Nita Nehru posted a discussionMarketing Microinsurance
We always get some great discussions going on the SEEP Network with our blog posts, so I'd like to post our most recent blog and hear everyone's thoughts!!! www.avanamicroinsurance.com While microlending continues to grow in popularity, microinsurance hasn’t garnered the same popular support. Why?? The reason for this has nothing to do with the relative merits of either financial service as a tool of economic empowerment –surely, if one is…See More
Nita Nehru posted a discussion(Micro)Insurance 101
Would love to get everyone's thoughts on this blog post by Avana Microinsurance on what exactly IS Microinsurance. There is some food for thought here that can lead to a good discussion. Thanks!---A question asked time and time again by Avana Microinsurance readers and followers is “What exactly is microinsurance??” So let’s tackle it…Microinsurance is a term used to describe any insurance policy that is priced to be affordable to a person living in poverty. It can include insurance against…See More
Nita Nehru posted a discussionIs Microinsurance an important next step in Microfinance provision?
Microfinance is becoming incredibly popular in both international development circles as well as with the public at large. The popularity of organizations such as Kiva.org, Grameen Foundation, SKS and others make it seem like microfinance is a panacea for development, that it will solve global poverty.But what happens if the loan recipient - a mother, for example, who used her loan to buy more cattle and successfully start a milk production microbusiness - unexpectedly dies? Or gets injured?…See More
Nita Nehru posted a blog postMicroWHAT?? From Microfinance to Microinsurance
[From Avana Microinsurance]First things first: “What exactly is microinsurance” and “How is microinsurancedifferent from microfinance?“By now, almost everyone has heard about microfinance, right? The provision of small loans to poor people, frequently women, has become a well-known tool of economic development. Millions of microfinance investment dollars– first from nonprofit and multilateral development institutions, and later from social and even commercial investors– have been deployed to…See More
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- International development professional dedicated to poverty alleviation and social entrepreneurship.
Currently employed as the Director of Marketing at Avana Microinsurance, a social enterprise dedicated to raising awareness of and expanding access to insurance for low-income communities. Simultaneously volunteer with the Nanubhai Education Foundation, a non-profit improving rural education in India.
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MicroWHAT?? From Microfinance to Microinsurance
Posted on November 1, 2010 at 5:45pm — 1 Comment
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- At 3:06am on January 14, 2012,
Lok Chetana Vikas Samiti (LCVS) said… We are willing to work in the field of Micro Finance & Micro Insurance and looking for resource person , who could guide us for the same.Please help us to get our aim.
With Regards
LCVS NGO
lcvs.ngo@gmail.com
Almora(Uttarakhand),India
- At 5:41am on March 1, 2011,
SM Farid Uddin Akhter said… small SEEP fund
Greetings
May we think for small SEEP fund? Each member could save small weekly/fornightly from her/his own luxury even daily expenditure. Each member would be in thinking how much I could be less expensive. I do believe we could save minimum from our own expenditure may be quarter/half/one dollar weekly. That would be collected duly and used for piloting new idea in one village any corner of globe.
NB.
- Fund must be saved from daily expenditure (reduce cellphone call, private car use, fast food, junk food etc etc) that wouldn’t hamper other family member life. Member like me ultra poor could save from his/her own travel cost 05 to 10 BDT and weekend it wuld one dollar easily.
- Now we are 2746 member and weekly we could have $2746 amount and monthly $10984. By $2000 we could start work any one village of third world country.
Let's we try to save one Taka/dollar/pound/yen ............FROM daily expenditure just remind self, “let live simply that other could simply live.”
- At 11:55am on February 16, 2011, Lok Chetana Vikas Samiti (LCVS) said…
would you please help us to work in Social Business field in Almora,Uttarakhand,India region.We are a one year old NGO and active in 2 districts presently, these districts are hill districts and the economy is women oriented.
with regards
LCVS NGO
lok.chetana@gmail.com
- At 5:57am on February 7, 2011,
shamim akhter said… - hi, i have read your comment about your organisation expansion in india, can you give me a guide how u r planning to do so or how can i help you, at present i am planning to start my own Micro Finance, I have manpower also,
i have done MBA with Marketing with 3 experience of Experience in MFI sector ( Share Microfin Ltd, India's 2nd largest MFI)
- At 4:58am on January 11, 2011,
Dheeraj Pao said… hi Nita
i am very much interested in starting micro insurance and expand your network.so please kindly tell me how can we be of any help,what are the requirements you are looking for.
i am a research scholar in Micro finance and can do the work of microinsurance it will help in my research work too besides my knowledge and hands on experience on MF can be of some use to you
regards Dheeraj,Camp New Delhi ,station Guwahati
- At 11:19am on January 10, 2011,
Nimesh Singh said… - i am a chemistry lecturer & i want sugestions for NGO CREATION. PLEASE HELP ME.
- At 2:36pm on December 18, 2010,
VICTOR KOSI Nogbe said… - my best freind my salutation for all your collegue . i hope to said hello to you my opinion is collaborate with you in change ideal .thank
- At 4:15pm on October 27, 2010,
Nadeem Bhatti said… - I am a consultant for Social sector to establish NGO and I perform as a social marketer
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