Our Work: Recent Accomplishments
Microfinance Opportunities focuses its initiatives
in research, training, and technical assistance on three fundamental
themes: financial education, microinsurance, and client assessment.
Working with institutions within and beyond the microfinance
sector, we have developed a range of projects addressing client-focused
issues in each of these three core areas. Please see below for
an overview of our most recent projects, or select one of the
following for a complete listing of our work:
- Financial Education
- Microinsurance
- Client Assessment
Global Financial Education Program
With a $3.9 million grant from the Citigroup Foundation, and in partnership
with Freedom
From Hunger, Microfinance Opportunities worked
with seven partners in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Eastern
Europe to develop a financial education curriculum for the
poor. Global Financial Education Program seeks to
build poor people’s financial knowledge and skills across
the five themes of budgeting, saving, debt management, use
of bank services, and financial negotiations.
Guidelines for Market Research on the Demand for Microinsurance
Guidelines for Market Research on the Demand for Microinsurance emphasizes the use of qualitative market research on the demand for microinsurance. Qualitative market research can play an important role in developing appropriate microinsurance products for the poor. This publication was prepared by Microfinance Opportunities and Abt Associates Inc. under USAID’s Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project (AMAP).
The Listening to Clients Series
With a grant from the Ford Foundation,Microfinance Opportunities
and MicroSave collaborated to produce the Listening
to Clients series, a pioneering audio-visual
market research training program for microfinance practitioners.
Listening to Clients is an exciting audio-visual training
program on market research for practitioners of microfinance.
It contains 13 modules that present a collection of assessment
tools originally developed by the SEEP Network under the AIMS
project and by MicroSave. These tools have been used around the
globe and remain among the best available. |
