Carolina Martinez is CEO of California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity.
|
|
Heidi Pickman is Associate Director of California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity.
|
|
Heidi Pickman is Communications and Policy Director of California Association of Micro Enterprise Opportunity.
|
|
A survey by the Korea Federation of Micro Enterprise found 92.4% of respondents are considering cutting back on workers.
|
|
That prompted a small business group, the Korea Federation of Micro Enterprise, to threaten to refuse to implement the reform.
|
|
We think of each cook as running their own micro-enterprise, so there is a huge range of kinds of people on the platform.
|
|
Nearly all respondents to a survey by the Korean Federation of Micro Enterprise said they would consider laying off workers to cope with higher wage bills.
|
|
We provide the tools and the resources for building a small micro-enterprise out of your house—the payment processing, customer management, ongoing education, and other tools.
|
|
These co-curricular workshops cover women's health; financial inclusion; human, legal, and civil rights; micro-enterprise; livelihood skills; self-awareness, aspiration, and agency; digital literacy; and environmental stewardship.
|
|
For example, in 1990, USAID partnered with the Alexandria Business Association — which promotes the interests of businesses in Alexandria, Egypt — to jointly fund the ABA/Small and Micro Enterprise Project.
|
|
This training culminates in soon-to-be graduates receiving a micro-enterprise grant, about $1,500 in-kind, according to Iftiin, to start their own business and get back on their feet.
|
|
"We offer a number of micro-enterprise opportunities on this property that in the past two years has distributed over one million dollars to the neighbors that live in this community," says Graham.
|
|
Claudia Viek is the CEO of CAMEO (California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity) the statewide network of 190 nonprofit business service providers, lenders, economic developers and banks that serve 40,000 micro and small businesses annually in California.
|
|
"One of my worst regrets is refinancing with a company like SoFi because the federal government has a thing such as income-based repayment," he said at the Self-Employed Entrepreneurs conference hosted by the California Association for Micro Enterprise Opportunity in San Francisco.
|
|
First, April's Seventh Party Congress included no new resolutions about deepening or expanding much needed market-oriented reforms apart from a vague reference to studying the possibility of granting status as legal businesses to a portion of the half-a-million strong micro-enterprise sector.
|
|
The Academy for Creating Enterprise is a private business college within the field of Micro-enterprise education. The objective of micro-enterprise education is to empower individuals with the skills and knowledge necessary to start their own businesses.
|
|
Anthony Charles Robinson (born 7 September 1952) is a business speaker, author and micro-enterprise campaigner.
|
|
The term micro- enterprise or microbusiness refers to different entities and sectors depending on the country.
|
|
The policy will provide micro-enterprise support in which the Australian Government will extend the Indigenous Communities in Business Program to two additional communities.
|
|
The Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship covers research on micro- enterprise and small business development. The journal is published by World Scientific and covers topics such as: entrepreneurship and self-employment in developing contexts, marketing patterns and approaches in venture growth and development, industry practices, and economic and social impacts of micro- enterprise activity. It is indexed in CSA Human Population & Natural Resource Management, CSA Sustainability Science Abstracts, ABI Inform, and Scopus.
|
|
Ellen Frances Golden (born October 8, 1946) is an American nonprofit executive specializing in micro-enterprise and women's business development. She was senior vice president of Coastal Enterprises, Inc. of Wiscasset, Maine, where she directed the Women's Business Center and CEI Investment Notes. She has testified before congressional committees on women's entrepreneurship and micro-enterprise development, and has sat on the boards of policy-making groups in these fields.
|
|
In 1994 Golden founded MicroNet, a Maine-based micro-enterprise association, "to share best practices, coordinate services, develop policy and train practitioners across New England in microenterprise development".
|
|
The Sustainable Livelihood Program (SLP) is a community-based capacity building effort that seeks to improve the program participants’ socio-economic status through two tracks: Micro-enterprise Development and Employment Facilitation.
|
|
Since distributing its first micro-enterprise loan in January 2000, SPBD has provided over 31,000 loans (approx. US$15,000,000) to create opportunities for about 14,000 Samoan families in 415 villages build small businesses.
|
|
Casagrande is a frequent speaker at conferences and universities around the world on the topics of poverty eradication, building inclusive financial sectors, building sustainable micro-enterprise development organizations, financing Microfinance institutions and social entrepreneurship.
|
|
Micro enterprise tax in Latvia is special tax regime. The law, regulating the tax in Latvia, entered into force on the 1st of September 2010. It is named as the Law on Micro enterprises tax.
|
|
ACODEP in Nicaragua and CREFAC in El Salvador each offer a micro-enterprise program composed of training, technical assistance and credit. They provide training on job skills (carpentry, weaving, canning), small business management (cash flow, accounting, cost control, production, marketing) and use of credit. Actuar Famiempresas and MEDA in Colombia, FEM in Venezuela, FINCA and FUNDEBASE in Costa Rica, ADOPEM and MUDE in the Dominican Republic, FUNDACEN in Guatemala, FUNBANHCAFE and IDH in Honduras, ACP and CADEP in Peru, OEF in El Salvador, CAME in Mexico and IPRU in Uruguay also have micro-enterprise programs.
|
|
SMEP offers retail banking and asset finance to individuals, groups, corporations and churches. The term SMEP is derived from "Small and Micro Enterprise Programme". SMEP had 19 banking branches, supported by 11 marketing units and over 40 SMEP Agents around Kenya.
|
|
Glynn Cochrane, Festival Elephants and the Myth of Global Poverty, (New York: Pearson, 2008). Corporate social responsibility and issues ranging from resettlement and human rights to micro-enterprise are now routinely addressed by systematic social assessment as an integral part of investment appraisal.
|
|
He also operated at corporate level of companies in steel manufacturing, retail and communication sectors. He is involved in leadership of various worker controlled commercial initiatives operating in Azania and Zimbabwe with interest in facility management, property, logistics, risk management, management consultancy and micro- enterprise finance.
|
|
Gyllenhaal is a supporter of Witness, a non-profit organization that uses video and online technologies to expose human rights violations. She co-hosted a benefit dinner with founder Peter Gabriel in November 2007. Gyllenhaal helped raise funds for TrickleUp.org, another non-profit that helps people in poverty to start a micro-enterprise.
|
|
The Microenterprise Education Initiative (MEI), headed by Dr. Jeremi Brewer, is an initiative that was announced for adoption by the Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance, Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University (BYU) in December 2011. MEI was created with the purpose of becoming an international thought leader in educating NGOs about micro- enterprise education.
|
|
The basis of micro-enterprise in the U.S. is entrepreneurship, recognizing a fundamental right of people to apply their individual talents, creativity and hard work to better their lives. Micro-enterprise programs, therefore, are built around the philosophy that the unique ideas and skills of entrepreneurs and would-be entrepreneurs should be provided business assistance and small amounts of credit to support the development or start-up of a small business, primarily through the U.S. Small Business Administration. Most organizations in the field also focus their services on those microentrepreneurs who, as defined by federal government standards, are low-to-moderate income. By definition, most of these entrepreneurs are minorities, recent immigrants, women, disabled or for other reasons have special challenges that reduce their ability to access traditional credit and other services.
|
|
The business college is financed by independent donors, the Called2Serve Foundation, and by student tuition. The Academy also partners with the BYU Ballard Center to recruit interns interested in social innovation and micro-enterprise. The current program directors for The Academy’s campuses located in Cebu and Mexico City are Jacobo Albores (Mexico) and James O. Fantone (Philippines) – both native to their respective countries.
|
|
JRJR Networks, formerly CVSL earlier Computer Vision Systems Laboratories, is an American holding company of multi-level marketing companies.CVSL:US JRJR Networks traded on the NYSE MKT, although was significantly below the required level of capitalization to continue in compliance FORM 8K - JRjr33, INC. and was therefore removed from the exchange. JRJR was founded by its chairman, John Rochon, a micro-enterprise pioneer.
|
|
SELF has worked in over 20 countries, using solar energy to power health clinics, schools, community centers, water pumps, mosques, drip irrigation, streetlights, and micro-enterprise centers. In addition to its current project sites, SELF has worked in Bhutan, Brazil, Burundi, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Lesotho, the Navajo Nation, Nepal, Nigeria, Rwanda, the Solomon Islands, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Uganda, Vietnam, and Zimbabwe.
|
|
The project was aimed at strengthening self-help efforts of 23 Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) working for the disadvantaged sections of society. It was designed to facilitate institutionalization of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) through capacity building, resource development and management programmes. Sectors covered under the project were Natural Resource Management, Non-Formal Education, Micro Enterprise, Mother Child Health and Human Rights.
|
|
The institution offers postgraduate programs, leading to Masters and PhD degrees in business management, rural management, human resource management, sustainability management as well several professional training programs. It has a few research centers in areas such as entrepreneurship, utility regulation, small and micro enterprise development, and healthcare management. XIMB grown up to become "Xavier University". Now XIMB is an autonomous business school under Xavier University.
|
|
In the United States, a different model is used, but the stated goals and core values are similar. Here, a micro- enterprise is defined as a business with five or fewer employees. Many of these businesses have no employees other than the self-employed owners. Additionally, such micro-enterprises generally need less than $35,000 in loan capital and do not have access to the conventional commercial banking sector.
|
|
In 2008, Small and Micro Enterprise Programme adopted its acronym "SMEP" as its official name and was registered as a company limited by shares. SMEP partnered with Kiva in 2009 and has seen them been able to extend credit on behalf of other Kiva lenders. On December 14, 2010, SMEP was awarded a deposit taking licence by the Central Bank of Kenya. Making it the third deposit taking microfinance institution (MFI) in Kenya.
|
|
Savings services were provided through KBSLAB, by linking urban BSFL customers with banks or post offices and through Self-help groups in the case of Sarvodaya. The total coverage was 450,000. BASIX insures its customers against risks like death, spouse's death, critical illness, hospitalization and permanent disability. It has rainfall-index based crop insurance, livestock insurance and micro enterprise asset insurance and deposit insurance for savings customers. In 2006-07, this coverage was extended to 473,932 asset owners.
|
|
The Academy runs a five-week program that combines hands-on experience with classroom instruction, guest lecturers, and team innovation. Upon entering The Academy, students are placed into groups and begin income-generating activities. The students put into practice the concepts they learn in class through business activities in the marketplace. This program and materials developed by the Gibsons have been adopted by several other organizations around the world, including Ascend Alliance in their Bolivia micro-enterprise program.
|
|
In early 2013 Patafta and Shaun Ontong set up a football academy in Canberra, Ontong Patafta Bernal Football Academy.opbfa.com.au: Media Andy Bernal later joined the pair as a partner in the football academy. The academy offers youth players in Canberra a professional training environment and pathways to elite level football. In October 2013, the Ontong Patafta Bernal Football Academy was nominated as a finalist and won the 2013 Canberra Business Point Award in the Micro- Enterprise Business category.
|
|
In September 2012, John Rochon named a board of directors that included experts in micro-enterprise, and announced his strategy of making CVSL a holding company for building a growing "consumer cloud" virtual community that would connect tens of millions of members. First to join the CVSL community was The Longaberger Company, which joined in March 2013. Your Inspiration at Home joined CVSL in August 2013. Both Tomboy Tools and Agel Enterprises joined CVSL in October 2013.
|
|
Karen Kandie serves as an adviser to Micro-Enterprise Support Programme Trust (MESPT), a joint programme between the government of Kenya and the Danish International Development Agency, aimed at alleviating poverty by providing finance and technical advice to Kenyans and their enterprises. Effective July 2014, she was appointed by the Kenyan Minister of Finance to the Capital Markets Tribunal, an alternative dispute resolution programme for the Capital Markets stakeholders, including investors, stockbrokers, listed companies, investment banks, and licensed advisers.
|
|
In partnership with the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT) and Association pour le Developpement Economique Social et Culturel de Kalalé (ADESCA), SELF has installed a total of eleven of its Solar Market Gardens™ (SMG), an innovative, unique solar-powered drip irrigation system, for women farming collectives in Dunkassa and Bessassi, two villages in the arid, northern part of the country. A two-year study conducted by Stanford University's Program on Food Security and the Environment department appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that SELF's SMGs, "significantly augments both household income and nutritional intake, particularly during the dry season, and is cost effective compared to alternative technologies." In addition to the SMGs, SELF has also installed three community water wells, streetlights, and solar systems to power two schools and a health center. In 2014, SELF finished the installation of a solar micro-grid that will power a micro- enterprise center in Bessassi, and construction of a second micro-enterprise center in Dunkassa is nearing completion.
|
|
In 2003, SELF found the opportunity to implement a "Whole-Village" approach when the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invited SELF to carry out a solar electrification project in Nigeria. With support from the DOE, SELF equipped three villages in Jigawa State, in northern Nigeria, with solar power systems for a community water- pumping system, a health clinic, a primary school, street lighting, a portable irrigation pump, and a micro-enterprise center. Since then, SELF has continued to implement this model in other project countries.
|
|
Al Whittaker (1918 – September 27, 2006) founded the non-profit organization Opportunity International and helped to popularize microcredit lending. In 1971, Whittaker left his job as president of Bristol Myers to found the Institute for International Development Incorporated (IIDI), a micro- enterprise organization. Barry Harper was IIDI's first Executive Director and oversaw establishment of offices in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Kenya, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia. Australian philanthropist David Bussau Maranatha Trust came on staff with IIDI in 1979 and began expanding its work in Asia.
|
|
A micro-enterprise (or microenterprise) is generally defined as a small business employing nine people or fewer, and having a balance sheet or turnover less than a certain amount (e.g. €2 million or PhP 3 million). The terms microenterprise and microbusiness have the same meaning, though traditionally when referring to a small business financed by microcredit the term microenterprise is often used. Similarly, when referring to a small, usually legal business that is not financed by microcredit, the term microbusiness (or micro-business) is often used.
|
|
Saving down Most needs are met through a mix of saving and credit. A benchmark impact assessment of Grameen Bank and two other large microfinance institutions in Bangladesh found that for every $1 they were lending to clients to finance rural non-farm micro- enterprise, about $2.50 came from other sources, mostly their clients' savings. This parallels the experience in the West, in which family businesses are funded mostly from savings, especially during start-up. Recent studies have also shown that informal methods of saving are unsafe.
|
|
In 2008, the ATP's tree nursery micro-enterprise program, "Plant an Idea, Plant a Tree", was recognized as the national winner of the Energy Globe Award for Sustainability. Its nursery program was selected for the award from 853 environmental projects in 109 countries. Initiated as a pilot project in 2004, the program was designed to mitigate poverty-driven deforestation with support for tree nurseries owned by impoverished families in the Getik River Valley of northern Armenia. It began with 17 families operating tree nurseries in 2004, growing to 400 families by 2008.
|
|
Ely continued to work for the Quaker Oats Company until he retired in 1984. Among Ely's activities later in life was his work as a "citizen-lobbyist", pressing Congress for micro- enterprise, free primary education in developing countries, and the Global Health Fund which sought to combat HIV/AIDS. Ely was also a mentor to countless young people in the Cedar Rapids area, many of whom went on to be community leaders and activists. He died from complications of surgery in St. Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Friday, March 30, 2007.
|
|
Performing Life, Inc is an NGO incorporated in the state of New Mexico, USA. Performing Life, Inc was founded in 2005 to help improve the lives of children who work or live on the street in Cochabamba, Bolivia. The project initially used juggling - as a form of performance art - to provide positive pathways for the participants but now also provides a music project and support to the families of working youth through micro-enterprise and weaving ventures which remain important to pre-Columbian cultures such as the Quechua.
|
|
In 1971, Al Whittaker left his job as president of Bristol Myers International Corporation in America to found the Institute for International Development Incorporated (IIDI), a micro-enterprise organization. Barry Harper, IIDI's first Executive Director, and development officer Dan Swanson together oversaw establishment of IDII offices in Colombia, Peru, Honduras, Kenya, the Dominican Republic and Indonesia. Australian philanthropist David Bussau founded Maranatha Trust and began administering loans in Indonesia in 1977. In 1979, he joined IDII as the director of the Indonesia office and began expanding IDII's work in Asia.
|
|
SMEP Mircofinance Bank started out in 1975 as a relief arm of the National Council of Churches of Kenya (NCCK). This program's objective was to feed the poor people in Nairobi's Mathare slum. Later on, NCCK realized that the poor needed to be self-reliant and economically empower and thus converted the feeding program into a micro-credit scheme known as Small Scale Business Enterprise (SSBE). In 1998 the Small Scale Business Enterprise (SSBE) was renamed Small and Micro Enterprise Programme and in 1999 it was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee.
|
|
The International Afghan Mission (IAM) was established in Kabul on February 2, 1966. It began from the efforts of teachers and medical specialists who were interested in working in Afghanistan. IAM's first projects were the National Organisation for Ophthalmic Rehabilitation (NOOR), the Medical Assistance Program (MAP), a school for the visually impaired (BINA), and a literacy programme. Over the next 40 years, more projects were added in engineering, maternal health, community development, English as a Foreign Language (EFL), disaster management, micro-enterprise development, mental health, and the study of languages.
|
|
In 1996 it was reported that the Swiss-American Micro-Enterprise Programme would lend money for small loans to assist Moldova's micro-enterprises. Switzerland's State Secretariat for Economic Affairs funded a project in 2005 to assist the Moldovan Ministry of Economy and Commerce in improving levels of foreign direct investment. The Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC) has been active in Moldova since 2000, providing humanitarian aid. The SDC gave support to the International Organization for Migration in 2001 to start a reintegration program for the victims of trafficking in women.
|
|
This intervention has also included training in ceramics and in marketing. One marketing innovation has been creation of a women’s micro-enterprise group called Grupo Pearson, followed shortly thereafter by Grupo Pakimé. The aim of these groups are to provide reliable income to members by sharing production and marketing tasks in order to be as self-sufficient as possible. Today, the younger generations have been around pottery all their lives, giving them a savvy in both the marketing and making of the craft that the older generations do not.
|
|
The Center for Rural Affairs was established in 1973 as an unaffiliated nonprofit corporation under IRS code 501(c)3. The Center for Rural Affairs was formed by rural Nebraskans concerned about family farms and rural communities, and was originally located in Walthill, Nebraska. The Center moved to Lyons, Nebraska in 2003 where it continues to work on family farm and ranch issues and rural community development. The Center's strongest work has focused on rural micro-enterprise development in Nebraska, federal farm and rural policy, research and analysis of rural economic issues and trends, and, historically, its work with beginning farmers and ranchers.
|
|
The Academy is closely allied with the BYU Ballard Center for Economic Self-Reliance. As defined by the Micro- enterprise Education Initiative at the Ballard Center, “Microenterprises are defined as small businesses. They are prevalent throughout the developing work due to necessity enterprise. Where large companies that employ many are scarce and jobs are limited even with a degree, many have had to survive but starting their own businesses (microenterprises).”Ballard Center website, accessed May 17, 2013 The Academy for Creating Enterprise relies upon this idea and hopes that individual lives will be transformed and poverty will be eradicated through education.
|
|
Wilson left a seat on the Des Moines City Council to lead the Ms. Foundation. Created in 1973, the Ms. Foundation was established at the height of the feminist movement to fund feminist organizations nationwide. Wilson and her staff initiated funding circles, including some of the first collaborative groups in the funding community, beginning with the creation of the Collaborative Fund for Women's Economic Development, for which the foundation received an award from the White House. Since its inception, it has leveraged tens of millions of dollars to support local micro-enterprise programs for low-income women and to reshape public policy.
|
|
Probably, the Embassy of Ethiopia in Jakarta will be accredited to ASEAN HQ, Malaysia and Singapore. Both nations are members of the Non-Aligned Movement. Indonesian embassy in Ethiopia has identified two main obstacles that hamper the trade relations between the two nations; the geographic location of Ethiopia as a landlocked country and the armed conflicts around Ethiopia. Through Non-Aligned Movement Center for South-South Technical Cooperation, Indonesia has assisted numbers of Ethiopian public officials through education and training in Indonesia encompassing various sectors; such as agriculture, education, family planning, micro-enterprise management, environment, poverty reduction, health improvement and higher education opportunities.
|
|
SAT-7 ACADEMY is a SAT-7 brand name for Arabic language education programming aired via SAT-7 KIDS. Programs feature instructional content for children, parents, and teachers. The SAT-7 website states that "SAT-7 has always been committed to holistic programming, with the aim of ministering to people in all areas of their life: spiritual, emotional, psychological and physical." Programming has included dramas promoting the rights of children and women, documentaries about micro- enterprise development, and game shows and music clips that have fostered a better understanding of the needs and potential of the disabled.
|
|
Glasgow once led the world in shipbuilding but now the only notable remaining trace of the city's industrial past is the Finnieston Crane and the remaining shipyards at Govan and Scotstoun. As well as preserving the heritage, CDPI aims to create a social enterprise / micro-enterprise hub, a cultural quarter and an ecology park area at Govan Graving Docks along with a full restoration of the dry docks to working order and a facility for the maintenance of historic ships. The organisation has attracted attention in local and national media, most notably articles in The Sunday Herald, The Big Issue and the Maritime Journal.
|
|
One program available for youth trying to find employment is "Quesqueya believes in you" or NEO in the Dominican Republic, which is a program designed to increase job opportunities for low- income people, aged 15–29, living in urban areas of thirteen of the country's provinces. Another program available is Espacios para Emprender (EpE), which is designed to equip 14-17 year old adolescents with the strategies required to find a job or establish a micro-enterprise. Work and education, combined early in life, often burden youth. Some youth believe that relocating to a larger city would benefit them and provide more opportunity in the work force.
|
|
In addition, Walsh raised nearly $1 million over a five-year period for the Fabretto Children's Foundation, an international charity which uses education and micro-enterprise to alleviate poverty among Nicaraguan children. Walsh also worked on state and local government policy issues for The Heartland Institute, a libertarian free-market think tank based in Chicago. He helped launch conservative organizations that seek to limit government and elect fiscal conservatives to state legislatures such as the Legislative Education Action Drive and the Americans for Limited Government. He also did consulting work with the United Republican Fund, an Illinois political action committee helping to elect Republican state legislators.
|
|
Paper to Pearls necklacePaper to Pearls is a micro-enterprise initiative of Voices for Global Change, a 501(c)(3) non-profit based in Alexandria, Virginia. Paper to Pearls works with women in the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in northern Uganda. The women create jewelry by hand-rolling beads from recycled paper, and Paper to Pearls markets and sells the jewelry principally in the United States, but also, via retailers and its website, in countries throughout the world. Because of Voices' non-profit status, between 75%-85% of the sale proceeds directly benefit the women, both as income as well as ongoing training programs.
|
|
With support from World Vision, it claims communities transform themselves by carrying out their own development projects in health care, agriculture production, water projects, education, micro-enterprise development, advocacy and other community programs. It also addresses factors that perpetuate poverty by what it describes as promoting justice. It supports community awareness of the collective ability to address unjust practices and begin working for change. It claims to speak out on issues such as child labor, debt relief for poor nations,– Amnesty International News – Apr 2, 2009, G20 leaders urged to protect the poor, April 2, 2009 and the use of children as combatants in armed conflict.
|
|
In 1993, Ouromian was selected along with 1,500 young people to heed President Bill Clinton’s call to help serve inner city youth across America as part of the pilot Summer of Service program, the precursor to AmeriCorps. Her first job was working for the AmeriCorps/Interfaith Hunger Coalition, a collaboration of over 1,000 faith-based organizations joined to fight hunger. There, she created the “Watts Threefold Economic Empowerment Project,” which built a community garden, a micro enterprise and a farmer's market that brought fresh produce to the residents of the neighboring Jordan Downs Housing Project and historic 103rd street. Her project helped create jobs and revive the economically depressed community.
|
|
The concepts of micro-enterprise and microfinance were pioneered in 1976 by Nobel Prize recipient Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank (Bank of the Rural), in Bangladesh. The bank was established for the purpose of making small loans to the poor − predominantly women – to help them obtain economic self-sufficiency. The fundamental principle behind the Grameen Bank is that credit is a human right. This strategy was highly effective as the bank grew exponentially; from fewer than 15,000 borrowers in 1980, Grameen Bank had 2.34 million members by 1998, 7.67 million at the end of 2008, 97% of whom are women, and 9.4 million today.
|
|
The mission of MEI is to become the international thought leader in educating micro-enterprise- focused NGOs globally. The basic means for accomplishing this include the preparation and utilization of an action lab which will facilitate the discussion of best practices and also challenges that are commonly faced. The findings to these issues will then be used to become the foundational research in creating a microenterprise toolkit. With the research concerning best practices, input from knowledgeable NGO directors, and a collaborative action lab to be held in March, MEI is planning on creating an action toolkit that will aid in NGOs training microenterprise operators worldwide.
|
|
Long-term survival rates of OW-initiated enterprises—(as compared to conventional micro-enterprises, where failure rates allegedly may be as high as 80% in their first year of operation).Correia in quotes a 90% 1st year failure rate according to SEBRAE (Brazilian Micro Enterprise Support Service) quote: "This creates the conditions for the failure of those microenterprises (the failure rate in the first year is over 80 percent) and deepens the desperation of participants."—are exemplified by e.g.: 13 surviving—in 2000—Costa-Rican cooperatives;Sobrado in the Honduran—(ex-1970s PROCCARA campaign)—palm oil growing and processing plants Hondupalma,Hondupalma celebrated its 30th year of operation in 2012 SalamaPalm Oil Producers in Honduras Salama p3 and Coapalma.
|
|
A Revolving Loan Fund (RLF) is a source of money from which loans are made for multiple small business development projects. Revolving loan funds share many characteristics with microcredit, micro-enterprise, and village banking, namely providing loans to persons or groups of people that do not qualify for traditional financial services or are otherwise viewed as being high risk. Borrowers tend to be small producers of goods and services: typically, they are artisans, farmers, and women with no credit history or access to other types of loans from financial institutions. Organizations that offer revolving loan fund lending aim to help new project or business owners become financially independent and eventually to become eligible for loans from commercial banks.
|
|
In 1997, Furman began working on several neighborhood improvement projects for the Municipal Commissariat of Montevideo (), the Women's commission of the Federation of Housing Cooperatives () and the IVIM. These included the Cooperatives Covisfran, Covipolo, Entrelunas, Olimar and Piramide, which involved gendered spaces and solutions for working women like childcare, safety and micro-enterprise programs. In 2001, Furman was appointed by the architecture faculty of the University of the Republic to the Thematic Network of Gender Studies. In addition to her urban planning initiatives, Furman taught graduate courses on housing issues, such as designing for low- income sectors, cooperatives and use of alternative technology and recycling to solve social housing challenges and published books and articles on urban housing solutions.
|
|
They support capacity building in the judicial sector of developing nations and regions emerging from conflict through training of judges and lawyers in trial advocacy. The organizations utilize a week-long intense training using mock scenarios in the following contexts: Criminal Law (general), Trafficking in Persons, Inheritance & Succession and Gender Based and Domestic Violence. Other major program areas include: Neutral Trial Observation, Assessment and Evaluation, Technical Assistance (Roadmaps, Manuals, Legal Analysis, Research and Legislative Drafting) and Community Outreach. Community work is focused upon access to justice issues and to date have included themes of civic participation and engagement, rights based education in partnership with local (in-country) NGOs and rights-based education embedded in LWOB supported and managed micro-enterprise.
|
|
Dr. Boulos believes the 2010 Haiti earthquake presents new opportunities for Haiti, especially for business growth and sustainable development. Dr. Boulos proposed that donors allocate at least 50% of all funds and guarantees to formal Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) and micro-enterprise financing, encourage broad ownership of larger companies, and implement SME set-asides, especially in the housing and construction sectors. Behind his recommendations, Dr. Boulos' principles are those of accountability, equality, and "independence from international aid." Dr. Boulos is active in the reconstruction of Haiti, and is the Business Sector Representative for the HRIC - Haiti Reconstruction Commission, or also known as the CIRH - Commission Interimaire Pour La Reconstruction D'Haiti, which is co-chaired by former U.S. President Bill Clinton and Haitian Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive.
|
|
It was founded in 1993 with a registered capital of RMB 1 million and 7 staff, positioning itself at the very beginning as the small-and-micro-enterprise(SME) financing service provider and being upgraded from credit union to commercial bank in 2006, is one of few complete private holding city commercial banks in China. Although the credit union was performing adequately in the first half decade since its birth, it was struggling in the fiercely competitive Chinese market. As a result, the bank focusses its market strategy on small and mid-sized business. By the end of December 2011, TLB had RMB 39 billion of deposit balance and RMB 26 billion of outstanding loans with NPL ratio of 0.58%, thereof SME loans took up more than 90%.
|
|
In 2012, Kudumbashree was recognized as a National Resource Organisation (NRO) by Ministry of Rural Development (MoRD), Government of India, under the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) to provide support to other States in their poverty eradication efforts. Subsequently, Kudumbashree NRO signed Memorandums of Understanding (MoUs) with 9 States (Assam, Bihar, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan and Sikkim) to provide technical and implementation support to their State Rural Livelihood Missions (SRLMs) for the adaption of Kudumbashree’s best practices. Kudumbashree NRO provides assistance to States in undertaking pilot interventions under the Enterprises project and Panchayati Raj Institutions – Community Based Organisations (PRI-CBO) Convergence Project. The Enterprises project identifies individuals from local communities and trains them for 6–9 months to form a cadre of community professionals called Micro-Enterprise Consultants (MEC).
|
|
He is a Board member of a micro enterprise organization–Project Enterprise–developed on the Grameen Bank model—which was founded by Muhammad Yunus, the father of micro-credit movement. With the help of Dr. Marcia Keizs, President of York College, Posman took an initiative along with Rashidul Bari, a Biographer of Muhammad Yunus, to start Muhammad Yunus Scholarship On February 11, 2008, Yunus came to York College to mark the establishment of Scholarship Program. At the event CUNY Executive Vice Chancellor and University Provost, Dr. Selma Botman awarded Yunus with Chancellor’s Medal for his humanitarian efforts. Posman also wrote the foreword for Muhammad Yunus' biography," Grameen Social Business Model: A Manifesto for Proletariat Revolution", written by Rashidul Bari. Posman also has appeared in a film, The Killing of Muhammad Yunus’ Biographer.
|
|
Additionally, institutional restrictions such as access to credit and property provide also large obstacles in the way of gender equality. According to the International Labour Organization, access to credit proves to be one of the largest, if not the largest, obstacle when it comes to women starting and running their own micro- enterprise. Since the mid 1970s organizations have started providing alternative routes to access credit for women, this includes outlets such as social and intermediary NGO programs, poverty-oriented development banks, and savings and credit union and cooperations. Having access to credit has been shown to add greatly to the capabilities of women, as seen in a study in Sri Lanka, being able to take out a loan allowed women to have more power when it came to bargaining with male members of the family.
|
|
Poudyal worked as Chairperson in state-owned Hetauda Cement Factory (September 2002 to May 2003); Liquidator of Hetauda Textile Mill (the largest state-owned Textile mill); Chairperson and Board Member of Cottage and Small Industry Development Board (2000-2003), Chairperson of state-owned Lumbini Sugar Mill Ltd ( September 2002 –October2003); Board member of Salt Trading Corporation, a semi state-owned company to supply essential commodities, National Program Director of Micro Enterprise Development Program- a UNDP funded Poverty alleviation Program (2002-2003) and Convener/ Team Leader of more than two dozen Task forces, committees and teams formed by the Government of Nepal. He worked as Consular General for Tibet Autonomous Region of China (November 2003- July 2007). He worked as Secretary at the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, Ministry of Information and Communications, Ministry of Home and also at the Office of Prime Minister and Council of Ministers between 2007 and 2012.
|
|
October 1999, Nnoli- Edozien founded the Growing Businesses Foundation as a platform to support enterprise development at the Bottom of the Pyramid in Nigeria. In January 2001, Nnoli-Edozien founded the Micro-enterprise Development Co-operation, MDC is a platform for evaluating international best practices in micro-finance for building self-reliant and sustainable financial intermediaries that nurture and grow small businesses into viable and socially responsible service providers. From November 2004 to December 2005, Nnoli-Edozien served as the African Representative of the Bank für Orden und Mission, Germany In January 2011, she joined the Central Organizing Committee of the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) In April 2011, Nnoli- Edozien accepted to become a member of the National Committee on Job Creation in Nigeria which was chaired by Aliko Dangote and inaugurated to develop an action plan for job creation in Nigeria. In January, 2012 Nnoli-Edozien was nominated by the International Finance Corporation as a Director of AB Microfinance Nigeria.
|
|
Landesa has been involved - on five continents - with land administration consulting, social impact studies, implementation planning, implementation monitoring, training, public education programs, and program design and management. There are typically five primary elements to this work. # Research in the field to identify existing conditions where new land law/regulations/policies could benefit the locals # Design and develop laws and regulations that create and sustain improved land system programs # Advocate the implications and details of the plan to public officials, future recipients, and other stake holders # Implement plan and assist in monitoring the changes; evaluate the new land system in place and make further modifications and improvements where appropriate One plan will not work for every country, so most of Landesa's time goes into tailoring its work for each specific location. For instance, Landesa's "micro-land ownership" program in India provides landless families with a micro-plot as small as 1/10 of an acre on which they can build shelter, grow food to supplement the family diet and income, and raise livestock or start a micro- enterprise.
|
|
Inclusive Entrepreneurship is also the name of a project which evolved from the Start-Up NY Pilot Project funded by Office of Disability Employment Policy by DOL in Onondaga County, Syracuse University. It defines inclusive entrepreneurship as: :“A strategy and process for assisting people with diverse disabilities and/or economic and social disadvantages to become entrepreneurs through business planning training, use of customized business development goal and support planning, and access to financial resources utilizing the resources of diverse public and private partners working within a consensus-driven, collaborative framework”. :(Definition courtesy of Gary Shaheen from BBI and Mirza Tihic from Whitman School of Management (Syracuse University)) Inclusive Entrepreneurship utilizes practices and partnerships developed through the three year (2006-2009) US Department of Labor/Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)-funded “Start-Up NY” program and the five year (2009-2014) Small Business Association’s Program for Investment in Micro- entrepreneurs (SBA-PRIME). Start-Up NY brought a personal multidisciplinary team consisting of business consultants, disability experts, benefits counselors, mentors, and any identified peer and family supports together with the participant to merge their knowledge and resources, and provide a customized micro-enterprise training, assistance, and counseling resource.
|
|