Our Work
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:
Global Financial Education Program
Begun with a $3.9 million grant from the Citi 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. Visit the Global Financial Education Program's website at www.globalfinancialed.org.
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.
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