Action research and model building
- Microfinance in Hard to Reach Areas. Hometown Corporation. Technical and management education services to build capacity of the MFI to continuously serve the highlands and islands of the Philippines
- Rural Entrepreneurship. Stimulating rural entrepreneurship through Business Development Services. On-going project. Hometown Foundation. Highland and Island Communities in the Philippines
- Urban Entrepreneurship. Product Trading, Market Linkage and Youth Entrepreneurship.
- Urban Microfinance. Capability Program to do Urban Microfinance.
Training and Education
- CGAP Technical Skill Courses. Trained more than 900 board, managers, and key staff from 669 institutions. Since 1999.
- Citibank-AIM MFI Management Training. Microfinance Management Development Program. December 2005
- Philippine Health Insurance Corp (PHIC). Managing Effective Community Health Insurance Program. 13 cooperatives trained on the process of being a PHIC conduit.
- Department of Labor and Employment (GATT Fund). Microfinance Awareness Forum in the 16 regions of the Philippines.
- Canada Fund / Canada International Development Agency (CIDA)-Philippines. Microfinance Training for the proponents of CIDA/ Canada Fund (1997-1998)
MFI Assessments
- National Center for Small and Medium Enterprise Development (NCSMED). Institutional appraisal of four (4) microfinance institutions - NCSMED, Aglow North, Aglow South, FCOSS. Republic of Fiji. (November-December 2005)
- Operational and Performance Assessment of 19 NGOs, 34 Cooperatives, and 4 People’s Organizations, 12 Agrarian Reform Communities. Since 1998.
Research
- National Commission on the Role of Filipino Women (NCRFW). Gender and Microfinance. (2004)
- PLAN International, CARD NGO and Cooperative Bank of Benguet Evaluations. Estimating the Demand for Financial Services of Occidental Mindoro and Benguet. (November 2000).
Development Consulting Management Services
- United Nations Development Programme Multi Country Office Fiji. Direct Management Services to 1,395 clients, Vt31,288,709 savings, and Vt18,258,558 loan portfolio. VANWODS Commercial Approach to Microfinance Services for the Poor and Disadvantaged. Republic of Vanuatu, South Pacific. (October 2004 to present)
- Rural Bankers Association of the Philippines-Microenterprise Access to Banking Services (RBAP-MABS). Training and Technical Assistance for 23 Rural Banks all over the Philippines – 17 banks in Luzon, 2 in Visayas, 4 in Mindanao serving 3,018 clients and total loan portfolio of P30,929,197.
- Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc. Product Development. Developing, Testing and Launching of New or Improved Microfinance Products for Tulay sa Pag-unlad, Inc. (TSPI), Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF), Community Economic Ventures, Inc. (CEVI) on Agriculture Microfinance and Micro-enterprise Finance. Province of Dumaguete, Tarlac, and Bohol, Philippines. (March 2004-December 2005)
- John Snow. Training and Manual Development. Governance and management system improvement for the Well-Family Midwife Clinic Partnerships Foundation, Inc (WPFI). (April 2004 – January 2005)
- European Union and Department of Agriculture – CASCADE Program. Rural Finance and Institution Capacity Building Program for a rural bank, seven cooperatives and 60 community self-help groups reaching 17,891 clients, P71,000,000 savings, and P174,000,000 loan portfolio. Northern Luzon, Philippines. (January 2000 to June 2004)
- Children and Youth Foundation of the Philippines. Established 16 self-help groups, P188,753.01 savings mobilized and P80,609.50 loans outstanding. Grassroots savings and credit program for Family and Children for Empowerment Development (FCED). (July 2002 to December 2003)
- International Labour Organization - International Program for the Elimination of Child Labor (ILO-IPEC). Start-up of savings-based microfinance program that served 2,298 clients and P400,909.97 savings mobilized among communities with incidence of child labour. Grassroots banking project in six rural and urban communities in the Philippines - Ormoc in Leyte, Montalban in Rizal, Pandacan in Manila, Biñan in Laguna, Dumaguete in Negros Oriental and Paracale in Camarines Norte, Bicol. (2000 – 2003)
- Department of Agrarian Reform. Capability Building to Improve Savings and Credit Programs of Twelve Agrarian Reform Cooperatives in the Philippines. (July 2000 to December 2003)
- Royal Netherlands Embassy. Technical Consultancy. Improving the Viability and Ability to Access Market Funds for the Microfinance Operations of four (4) state university based-NGOs and one wholesale NGO in Southern Luzon, Mindanao, Leyte and Nueva Ecija (June 2000 to August 2001)
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