Posts Tagged ‘grant’

Microfinance Focus, Feb. 24, 2010: Opportunity International has announced a $16 million program co-funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and The MasterCard Foundation to provide access to savings accounts and agricultural loans in rural areas of sub-Saharan Africa, where less than 10 percent of people have access to comprehensive financial services. The $16 million grant will enable the microfinance organization to significantly expand its ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Oct. 6, 2009: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Japan will provide $1.5 million to Vietnam to help bring its unregulated microfinance programs into the formal sector, to boost services and provide increased financial support for the poor. The Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction, financed by the Government of Japan and administered by ADB, is extending the $1.5 million grant to help the Government ... Full story