Enhancing Livelihoods through Rural Finance
A Joint Initiative
by
EastAgri LSP
CABFIN
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The Partners:
EastAgri: improving agricultural and agribusiness investments by creating an information hub to share experiences and encourage innovation
LSP –Livelihood Support Programme: promoting sustainable livelihood approaches in project implementation to increase their impact on poverty reduction.
CABFIN - Improving Capacity Building in Rural Finance: by developing an internet-based Learning Centre which meets the needs of rural finance organisations and advisers for staff development and training resources.
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EBRD / CEI World Bank
OBJECTIVE: Enhancing the
livelihoods of poor rural people through
appropriate rural finance
FAO
DfID
IFAD GTZ World Bank
Livelihoods Support
Programme
(LSP)
EastAgri Network
Improving Capacity Building in Rural Finance
(CABFIN)
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LSP’s Objective
To widen the coverage of EastAgri
a) geographically to poorer countries of central Asia, particularly Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan
b) in terms of effectiveness in bringing financial services to rural micro enterprises
The LSP decided one contribution would be to make the CABFIN Rural Finance Learning Centre available in Russian
Rural Finance Learning Centre
www.ruralfinance.org
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The Rural Finance Learning Centre …
A website dedicated to providing access to the
best materials for capacity building in the field
of rural finance.
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What is rural finance?
It is about providing financial services for people living in rural areas.
Financial services play an important role in enhancing livelihood security, facilitating commercial activities and reducing poverty
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Who is the Learning Centre for?
Rural finance service providers– banks, cooperatives, MFIs
Task managers of projects and donor organisations
Policy-makers in governments and central banks
Suppliers of rural finance training in universities, institutes and workplaces
Staff of agricultural and enterprise advisory services working with rural people
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This is the home page:
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You access the content through gateways:
The training gateway:
1. Self study lessons
2. Training guides
3. Details of training opportunities
4. Past workshops
The resources gateway:
Listings and abstracts of documents and multimedia organised into topics that can be approached from the perspective of:
•Policy-making
•Financial service provision
•Client advice
RFLC members and organisations
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A topic page in the resources gateway:
Topic navigation Topic introduction
List of resources
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A topic page with resource details displayed:
Resource abstract and details of how to download or order
Topic introduction
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A self-study lesson page:
Write your answers
Click here to see given answers and compare
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Possibilities for EastAgri:
Navigation will be available in Russian shortly.
Network members can contribute to identifying materials to share in the resources section.
Self study lessons and training guides can be adapted and translated.
Network members can create online discussions about key issues in rural and micro finance.
The RFLC platform will help EastAgri members disseminate their materials to a wider audience.
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For more information:
Livelihood Support Programme:
www.fao.org/sd/dim_pe4/pe4_040501_en.htm
Rural Finance Learning Centre:
www.ruralfinance.org
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