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Changes ahead for the Microcredit Summit Campaign

April 29, 2016 · by RESULTS Educational Fund
Dignitaries who attended the 1997 Microcredit Summit.

Dignitaries who attended the 1997 Microcredit Summit.

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>>Authored by Larry Reed, Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign

Twenty years ago Sam Daley-Harris came to our offices at Opportunity International — where I then worked — and told us of his plans to hold a Microcredit Summit. Working with Muhammad Yunus, founder of Grameen Bank and John Hatch, founder of FINCA, he would gather leaders from around the world to inform them of the important role microcredit and other financial services could play in helping people living in poverty. At the time, neither the UN nor the World Bank nor any national governments had any policies related to microfinance. Sam wanted to change that.

We were intrigued by his idea, so we started asking more about his organization. He represented a grassroots lobbying group called RESULTS, which mobilized citizen volunteers to advocate for issues related to poverty and hunger to their representatives in Congress. He told us about how, in 1990, RESULTS volunteers had held 500 candlelight vigils around the country to support the World Summit for Children.

We left the meeting excited by the prospect but not sure whether Sam was going to be able to pull off such a big event. We went back to our own agendas and didn’t give much thought to the Summit until a month or two before the event when we began to notice that all our conversations with colleagues in microfinance included discussions about the upcoming Summit. Everyone we knew was planning to go, and when we looked at the line-up of speakers, we saw why.

Sam and the RESULTS team had somehow convinced five heads of state, even more spouses of heads of state, the President of the World Bank, the Treasury Secretary, and many heads of UN agencies to speak at the first Summit in Washington. We started scrambling to figure out how we could get noticed at what was becoming the largest international event ever organized for microcredit.

The participants in the first Summit endorsed the goal of reaching 100 million of the world’s poorest families with microcredit by 2005. This became the focus of the first phase of the Microcredit Summit Campaign, expanding the use of microcredit as a development tool as widely as possible. When the Campaign first started tracking microfinance outreach in 1997, our industry was reaching 13 million borrowers, of whom 7.6 million lived in extreme poverty.

During the next nine years, according to David Roodman, the Microcredit Summit Campaign served as “a major force behind the global microfinance movement, combining savvy publicity with behind-the-scenes lobbying for funding.” After coordinated lobbying by RESULTS and their allies around the world, the UN declared 2005 to be the “International Year of Microcredit,” and the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2006 Peace Prize to Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank. By 2007, the Campaign had reached its goal, reporting 155 million total microfinance borrowers, of whom 107 million were among the poorest in their countries.

Anticipating reaching the goal, the Campaign entered its second phase by setting two new goals at its 2006 Global Summit in Halifax:

  1. Reaching 175 million poorest families with microfinance
  2. Helping 100 million families lift themselves out of extreme poverty

With these new goals, the Campaign began focusing not just on the number of clients, but also on how access to microfinance affects the lives of families who borrow. We stressed the importance of measuring poverty levels of clients and recording progress over time, framing micro financial services as tools to help achieve the larger goal of ending extreme poverty.

In many ways, this message has become more widely accepted. The World Bank has made ending extreme poverty by 2030 and promoting shared prosperity its two guiding goals. As a key step to achieving these goals, the Bank has also adopted a target of reaching universal financial access by 2020. The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), ratified by 193 nations this past January, have adopted the target of eradicating poverty, in all its forms, everywhere. Making a broad range of financial services available to all is one of the key targets for achieving the SDGs.

On the other hand, we have not had as much success in getting financial providers to expand service to the world’s poorest. As microfinance has grown more commercial, it has served proportionally fewer clients in extreme poverty. In fact, our numbers show that the number of borrowers living in extreme poverty has declined for each of the last three years. These trends, combined with a funding environment that has much less appetite for organizations providing public goods for microfinance, has caused us to rethink our role and structure.

In our last State of the Campaign Report, we identified Six Pathways for microfinance to reach those in extreme poverty and support their movement out of poverty. These Pathways all involve integrating financial services with other important development services, and many of them have significant connections with the work of governments.

At our most recent Summit in Abu Dhabi, our Leadership Council identified four priorities to help drive the future of our work on financial and social inclusion. These include transformative social protection and graduation programs, risk management by the poor, community-led finance, and rural development strategies. What they all share in common is the aim to help people move out and stay out of extreme poverty, addressing their unique vulnerabilities and combining public and private action to make essential services available to and affordable for those living in poverty.

We saw that our future work as the Microcredit Summit Campaign would have significant overlap with the work of our parent organization, RESULTS Educational Fund. As we called for governments and multilateral organizations to tear down the silos in their organizations to combine financial services with other developmental services like social protection, health, housing, and education, we saw that we needed to do the same thing in our own organization. Therefore, in order to strengthen our message and reduce annual recurring costs, we have decided to merge our work with that of RESULTS.

In this new structure, the Microcredit Summit Campaign will no longer operate as a standalone organization. Much of our team will be moving into positions with RESULTS, and we will continue to highlight the work carried out by innovators and leaders who design financial services that reach those in extreme poverty and that can show progress in helping families move out of poverty.

We will continue to advance the priorities of our Leadership Council, integrating them into the work RESULTS does to advocate for policies and resources to eliminate poverty through its three pillars of health, education, and economic opportunity.

Through RESULTS, we will continue to play our unique convening role. We will bring together the ever expanding community of institutions, companies, government agencies, and individuals that can provide the financial and other goods and services that address the unique needs of those living in poverty.

We now embark on the third phase of the Campaign. It will involve an advocacy agenda to link financial services to other key development services so that those living in poverty will have the resources and cash flows needed to provide for themselves, sustain the health of their families, and educate their children. We do so with the same audaciousness that Sam had when he started both RESULTS and the Microcredit Summit Campaign. We do so knowing that we will not succeed until extreme poverty no longer exists on our planet.

Read the official announcement: An Update from Joanne Carter, executive director of RESULTS and RESULTS Educational Fund, and Larry Reed, director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign

See answers to common questions (French and Spanish) that we anticipate you may have. If you have other question we didn’t think of, send an email to info@microcreditsummit.org.

18th Microcredit Summit: Frontier Innovations in Financial Inclusion

January 14, 2016 · by RESULTS Educational Fund


The 2015 State of the Campaign Report underscores the challenge microfinance faces in realizing its original goal — to alleviate poverty by providing quality microfinance services to the poorest segments of society. In it, we make the case for the scale-up of financial services “pathways” that can advance the end of extreme poverty with prescriptive actions for financial service providers, government policymakers, and others. These “Six Pathways,” which you can read all about in the report, will be featured through out our 18th Microcredit Summit.

Financial inclusion is “the first step” in achieving the World Bank’s twin goals by “giving people the tools to get out of poverty [by 2030] and into shared prosperity,” as explained by Alfonso García Mora at the 17th Microcredit Summit in Mexico. Participants will engage in a thoughtful discussion around effective ways to reach the most vulnerable and marginalized and the microfinance services and financial inclusion strategies that promote inclusive, sustainable economic growth and social empowerment that helps improve their lives.

Last month, the Microcredit Summit Campaign celebrated with our partners, Freedom from Hunger and CARD MRI, the achievements of our jointly run project in the Philippines, “Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies.” Over the past 16 months, 789,960 clients received health education and 2,424 account officers were trained to deliver those lessons. CARD and members of the MFIs for Health consortium partnered to organize 15 community health days in which 8,988 women received a free check-up with an OB/GYN. Many of these women were able to get an ultrasound, hearing their babies heartbeat, often for the first time. More than 160 health providers participated in health fairs, and we distributed 3,709 mother and baby kits.

In his remarks during the closing ceremony, Campaign Director Larry Reed said, “Poor people need financial services, but if they aren’t paired with other services, especially health services, problems like health shocks and other vulnerabilities the poor deal with become a roadblock of the pathway out of poverty. Offering other services is what will create lasting change.”

As the 2015 Report shows, the strength of microfinance is in creating linkages among key influencers in order to better ensure that microfinance provides better products and services reach those who are socially and financially excluded. The 18th Microcredit Summit will feature successes in Africa and the Middle East, especially the growth of mobile money accounts and experimentations in sub-Saharan Africa. Recent Global Findex 2014 numbers show there is a major opportunity in expanding financial inclusion among women and the poorest households in Africa and the Middle East. Though outreach is still low in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), compared to other regions, promoting changes in national strategies could significantly increase financial inclusion. The Summit will convene Central Bankers, Ministers, and sector leaders from MENA to identify the most effective national financial inclusion strategies that enable an environment of greater outreach and social change.

AGFUND will present their AGFUND International Prize Award at the 18th Microcredit Summit to “Innovative programs that alleviate unemployment among youth.” The Prize, which is worth US$ 500,000, was established by AGFUND with the aim of spurring innovation and creativity in human development. The Prize puts forward a number of subjects that address poverty alleviation and social and financial inclusion of the poor. “AGFUND is establishing banks for the poor,” Nasser Alkahtani, executive director of AGFUND said, “and is determined to promote financial inclusion through microfinance best practices and products that help increase the productivity capabilities of many of the poorer segments.”

Organized in partnership with the Arab Gulf Programme for Development (AGFUND), our 18th Microcredit Summit will focus on the theme of “Frontier Innovations in Financial Inclusion.” Join us in Abu Dhabi, U.A.E., on March 15-17, 2016, for another great microfinance conference! Learn more: http://18microcreditsummit.org/.

Distribution of Clients by Institution Size

December 31, 2015 · by crivera2013

Of the 114.3 million poorest clients reached in 2013, 96.4 million of them (87.5%) are being served by the 84 largest institutions and networks reporting to the Campaign, all with 100,000 or more poorest clients. Table 5 shows the breakdown by size of the 3,723 institutions whose data are included in this report.

Table 5: Reporting Institutions by Size
(December 31, 2013)

Table C_Reporting Institutions by Size_SOCR 2015

* Networks include umbrella organizations providing financial support (Ananya Finance for Inclusive Growth and Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc.), technical support (Association of Asian Confederation of Credit Unions, All India Association for Micro Enterprise Development, and Foundation for a Sustainable Society, Inc.), promotion and development support (NABARD), and large Government-sponsored programs (Bangladesh Rural Development Board and Mahila Arthik Vikas Mahamandal.

Figure 3: Change in Reporting Institutions by Size
(December 31. 2009, to December 31, 2013)

Figure 3_Change in Reporting Institutions by Size_SOCR 2015

In 2014, 8 MFIs would not report their outreach to the poorest.  Of this group, 6 were located in Latin America, 2 were in Asia, and 1 was in Sub-Saharan Africa. From this group, one MFI in Asia did not report poorest outreach because they did not gather this information, while one of the Latin American MFIs had not yet counted their poorest clients, as it was their first attempt at using the PPI tool.

One MFI located in Asia reported a 90% decline in poorest outreach due to an increase in loan size for which less poorest clients qualified.

Table 6: Reporting Institutions by Size from December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2013

Table 6_Change in Reporting Institutions by Size_SOCR 2015

 


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Of the 110.2 million poorest clients reached in 2013, 96.4 million of them (87.5%) are being served by the 87 largest institutions and networks reporting to the Campaign, all with 100,000 or more poorest clients.

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
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Appendix IV: Institutions that Submitted an IAP

December 31, 2015 · by RESULTS Educational Fund
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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
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Appendix III: List of Verifiers

December 31, 2015 · by RESULTS Educational Fund
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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
  • Read the Full Report
  • Get Your Copy
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Survey Methodology

December 31, 2015 · by crivera2013

The Microcredit Summit Campaign has collected data for the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report for 17 years and has verified that data beginning in 2000. The process consists of 1) the circulation of Institutional Action Plans (IAPs) to thousands of practitioners, requesting their most recent data; 2) a phone campaign to more than 200 of the largest MFIs in the world to encourage submission; 3) a verification process seeking third-party corroboration of the data submitted by the largest MFIs; 4) data compilation and analysis; and 5) the writing and publication of the report. Among the thousands of institutions and individual supporters in the Campaign’s six Councils, as of August 31, 2014, a total of 3,725 MFIs from 150 countries were members of the Council of Practitioners and Associations and have submitted an IAP at least once since 1998. To view a complete list of the institutions and individuals that submitted an IAP in 2014, go to Appendix IV.

Practitioners were asked to fournish data that is critical in measuring progress toward fulfilling the Campaign’s two goals. The IAP outlines a common set of strategic objectives and creates an easy way for institutions to share their plans and accomplishments. The IAP is the basic building block of the Campaign. In this year’s IAPs, the data provided comes from questions, such as 1) what is the total number of active clients (clients with a current loan) and 2) what is the total number of active clients who were among the poorest when they received their first loan. We requested answers to these and other questions for data as of December 31, 2013.

Network Institutions

In most cases, the data presented in this report is submitted by individual institutions. Some data, however, comes from network or umbrella institutions. To prevent double counting, the Campaign analyzes the data from these institutions to identify any potential duplication from their partners.

When collecting regional data from the Middle East and North Africa, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and North America, the Campaign uses the figures provided by three large institutions. Beginning in 2006, the report included the total number of clients from the Middle East and North Africa, provided by the Sanabel Network; from Eastern Europe and Central Asia, provided by the Microfinance Center (MFC); and from North America, provided by the Aspen Institute. The data from these institutions does not include information on poorest clients reached.

Some of the networks’ partner MFIs are also members of the Campaign and submit Institutional Action Plans. In order to avoid double counting, we deduct the total number of clients reported by those MFIs from the total numbers received from Sanabel, MFC, and the Aspen Institute. The data reported by Sanabel represents 92 members of which 35 have reported to the Campaign. The data reported by MFC represents more than 101 members, of which 19 have reported to the Campaign. The Aspen Institute data represents 42 organizations, none of which has reported to the Campaign since 2005 (therefore, we have not deducted any numbers from their data).

NABARD

The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is the apex development bank in India promoting self-help groups (SHGs), many of which are linked to formal banking institutions. SHGs enable the poor and poorest to save and lend among themselves. These NABARD-promoted SHGs have reached 54.5 million clients, accounting for 26% of all clients reported to the Microcredit Summit Campaign last year (data as of December 31, 2013).

NABARD has played a central role for more than a decade in pioneering the self-help group movement in India, through which poor and poorest women organize themselves into savings groups. SHG members save and lend among themselves and also manage the affairs of their groups. Mature SHGs are linked to the formal banking system, which has an extensive branch network throughout the country to bolster their resources.

Table 8: NABARD Client Growth
(March 31, 1997, to March 31, 2014)

Some of NABARD’s partners (banks and NGOs) are also members of the Microcredit Summit Campaign and submit institutional action plans. In order to avoid double counting, a portion of the figures reported by these agencies has been subtracted from NABARD’s figures. After these calculations, NABARD accounted for 54,561,000 total clients, 43,649,000 of whom were among the poorest when they started with the program.

These updated calculations — first performed in 2002, updated in 2006, 2011, 2013, and 2014 — are based on data collected from institutions in India that overlap with NABARD. These institutions were asked what percentage of their SHGs were bank-linked (i.e., included in NABARD’s figures). On the basis of this research, a 3% reduction of NABARD’s figures was taken into account when calculating total clients, total women, total poorest clients, and total poorest women.


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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
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  • Get Your Copy
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Institutions Reporting for the First Time

December 15, 2015 · by crivera2013

Each year, the Campaign makes a concerted effort to include institutions that have previously not submitted Institutional Action Plans. In 2001, 57.8% of the growth in poorest clients reached came from institutions reporting for the first time covering data from December 31, 2000. A significant portion of the growth that year came from India’s National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), which had expanded dramatically over the previous four years. NABARD is the apex development bank in India developing self-help groups (SHGs), many of which are linked to formal banking institutions.

Ten institutions reporting to the Campaign for the first time in 2014 accounted for 13,275 borrowers living in extreme poverty. The data we pulled from the MIX database for 121 MFIs from India, Bangladesh, and the Philippines account for 4,560,345 poorest borrowers. Despite this expansion of our database, growth in poorest borrowers was negative for the third year in a row (Table 3).

Table 3: Growth in Poorest Clients Resulting from Institutions Reporting for the First Time
(December 31, 2000, to December 31, 2013)

The growth from 7.6 million poorest at the end of 1997 to 114.3 million poorest at the end of 2013 represents a growth of 1,404% during this 17-year period (Table 4).

Table 4: Progress in reporting
(December 31, 1997, to December 31, 2013)

* In 2009, for the first time in a decade, the Campaign did not collect or verify data nor did we release a State of the Campaign Report, which is why there are no figures for December 31, 2008.


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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
  • Read the Full Report
  • Get Your Copy
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Verification Process

December 15, 2015 · by crivera2013

In 2000, the Campaign began independently verifying aspects of the data covering the previous year. The largest institutions provide the Campaign with names of donor agencies, research organizations, networks, or other institutions that can verify the total number of clients reached, the percent of all clients who are women, the number of poorest clients, and the percent of poorest clients who are women.

A letter is sent to potential verifiers asking them to confirm the data submitted by a given MFI. The letter says, “By confirm, we mean that you have visited the program, met with senior officials, reviewed aspects of the operation, they have provided you with numbers, and you believe that the institution and the numbers listed below are reliable and credible.” For a complete listing of verified institutions, go to Appendix II.

In the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2000, 78 institutions, representing 67% of the poorest clients reported, had their data verified by a third party. This year, data from 71 institutions was verified, representing 66% of the total poorest clients reported, or 75.6 million poorest families.

Table 2: Results of the Verification Process
(December 31, 1997, to December 31, 2013)


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This year, data from 71 institutions was verified, representing 66% of the total poorest clients reported, or 75.6 million poorest families.

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
  • Read the Full Report
  • Get Your Copy
  • Français (Coming soon!)
  • Español (Coming soon!)
  • Arabic (Coming soon!)

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Number of Clients Reached

December 15, 2015 · by crivera2013

By December 31, 2013, a total of 3,098 MFIs reported reaching 211,119,547 clients with a current loan. Of these clients, 114,311,586 were among the poorest when they joined their respective programs. Approximately 89% of the poorest clients reported are in Asia, a continent that is now home to just over 15% of the world’s people living on less than $1.90 a day (PPP 2011); the extreme poverty rate in Asia has dropped dramatically from the 64% previously estimated by the World Bank (2005 PPP).

In 2014, 172 practitioner institutions submitted an IAP, including 10 that had previously never done so. These 172 practitioners had 83% of all the poorest clients reported. This means that the data in this report is 83% current, and the remaining 17% is one or more years old.

Table 1: Figures as of December 31, 2013

Figure 1: Growth of Total Clients and Total Poorest Clients
(December 31, 1997, to December 31, 2013)

Figure 2: Growth Trajectory of Poorest Clients Reached
(2005 – 2015)


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Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
  • Read the Full Report
  • Get Your Copy
  • Français (Coming soon!)
  • Español (Coming soon!)
  • Arabic (Coming soon!)

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Women Clients Reached

December 15, 2015 · by crivera2013

Of the 114.3 million poorest clients reached at the end of 2013, 83% (94.4 million) are women. The growth in the number of very poor women reached has increased from 10.3 million at the end of 1999 to 94.4 million at the end of 2013.

While this is an 818.7% increase in the number of poorest women reached from December 31, 1999 to December 31, 2013, this is a 20% decrease from the number of poorest women reported reached at the end of 2012, which we reported was 96.3 million poorest women. This is the third year that the number of poorest women has decreased.

Figure 4: Growth of Outreach to Poorest Clients That Are Women
(December 31, 1999, to December 31, 2013)


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Of the 114.3 million poorest clients reached at the end of 2013, 83% (94.4 million) are women.

Table of Contents

  • Executive Summary
  • Where’s the Map?
  • Global Data Show Diverging Paths
  • Integrated Health and Microfinance
  • Saving Groups
  • Graduation Programs
  • Agricultural Value Chains
  • Conditional Cash-Transfer Programs
  • Digital Finance
  • Conclusion
  • Data
  • Multimedia
  • Read the Full Report
  • Get Your Copy
  • Français (Coming soon!)
  • Español (Coming soon!)
  • Arabic (Coming soon!)

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