Market-led Microfinance Project



Contract partner: Micro Save Africa Country: Uganda Funding amount: € 435.000,00 Project start: 01.01.2004 End: 31.03.2007

Short Description:

Overall goal


MicroSave-Africa, founded 1998, is a successful initiative to promote high quality financial services for poor people. The results of the work, quality tools, training courses and research reports have been widely disseminated. A series of external reviews in late 2002 recognized the value and impact of the project, and recommended that it be continued. Building on its achievements, MicroSave-Africa developed the Market-led Microfinance Project to build the capacity of the financial sector to provide high-quality financial services for poor people by

1. assisting in the creation of successful market-led microfinance institutions under the action research partner programme;

2. developing toolkits and resources for use by action research partners and the global microfinance industry; and

3. increasing the capacity of service providers to deliver technical assistance and training on toolkits developed under point (2).

A significant proportion of its activities is in Uganda. For this reason it has maintained its office in Kampala to ensure that the important and dynamic market in Uganda is adequately served.


Projekt ist eine Weiterentwicklung von EZA 2111-00/01 'MicroSave-Africa Regional Microfinance Product Innovation & Improvement Project' und baut auf bisherige Finanzsektorprojekte in Uganda auf.

project number 2111-00/2004
source of funding OEZA
sector Banken und Finanzwesen
tied
modality
marker
  • Policy marker: are used to identify, assess and facilitate the monitoring of activities in support of policy objectives concerning gender equality, aid to environment, participatory development/good governance, trade development and reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health. Activities targeting the objectives of the Rio Conventions include the identification of biodiversity, climate change mitigation, climate change adaptation, and desertification.
    • 1= policy is a significant objective of the activity
    • 2= policy is the principal objective of the activity
  • Donor/ source of funding: The ADA is not only implementing projects and programmes of the Austrian Development Cooperation , but also projects funded from other sources and donors such as
    • AKF - Foreign Disaster Fund of the Austrian federal government
    • BMLFUW - Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Forestry, Environment and Water
    • EU - Funds of the European Commission
    • Others - various other donors are listed in ADA’s annual business report.
  • Type of Aid – Aid modalities: classifies transfers from the donor to the first recipient of funds such as budget support, core contributions and pooled programmes and funds to CSOs and multilateral organisations, project-type interventions, experts and other technical assistance, scholarships and student costs in donor countries, debt relief, administrative costs and other in-donor expenditures.
  • Purpose/ sector code: classifies the specific area of the recipient’s economic or social structure, funded by a bilateral contribution.
  • Tied/Untied: Untied aid is defined as loans and grants whose proceeds are fully and freely available to finance procurement from all OECD countries and substantially all developing countries. Transactions are considered tied unless the donor has, at the time of the aid offer, clearly specified a range of countries eligible for procurement which meets the tests for “untied” aid.
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