A 4-Day Risk-Based Workshop targeted at the project staff in development NGOs which provide microcredit facilities to their beneficiaries as part of a larger poverty reduction programme.

Benefits to Your Organisation

Good intentions do not translate into good project outcomes. A key ingredient of success is the combination of a well designed and flexible programme with motivated project staff who can make effective decisions in the field.

This workshop combines the art and science of project finance and good lending principles towards meeting the objectives of a targeted microcredit programme.

Desired Workshop Outcomes

At the conclusion of this workshop, participants should have acquired a working knowledge of how to:

• Understand the different variations of microcredit methodologies
• Understand gender and other pre-selection issues
• Actively contribute to the implementation of a microcredit programme
• Apply good lending decisions, loan monitoring and recovery
• Apply “minimum standards in good practice”
• Mainstream quality and accountability issues into their work

Workshop Overview:

• Enabling community leadership to catch the vision
• Practicing the appreciative inquiry approach
• Guidelines for microcredit viability
• Microcredit methodologies and their application
• Determining borrower selection criteria, gender issues
• The art and science of lending
• Practicing loan monitoring and recovery
• Practicing programme sustainability and performance tracking

Learning Features

The workshop methodology is to combine the use of interactive facilitation supported by participatory learning through case-studies, creative thinking exercises, group exercises and presentations by the participants. This is followed up by a complimentary three month period of expert tutor support by email for all participants.

Who Should Attend

This workshop is best conducted with a maximum of 15 participants. It will benefit those involved in supervisory roles within projects providing microcredit facilities as part of a larger socio-economic development programme.

Training Fee for In-House Delivery

We would be pleased to provide our quotation, which includes:

• A limited, single-use programme copyright
• Facilitator’s delivery fees
• Printed material for exercises
• Printed workshop notes.

Not included in the training fee are venue & equipment costs, meals & refreshments, transportation, and the trainer’s accommodation and international travel costs.