Publications

Treating Clients with Respect at Fundación Mundo Mujer Popayán

06 May 2014

    Treating clients with dignity and respect helps financial service providers adhere to both their social mission and financial goals.It is a “win-win”—the client is satisfied and the provider gains the client’s loyalty and continued business. This dual advantage can motivate providers to improve their policies and procedures governing staff-client relations,including collections practices, ethical standards, complaints mechanisms, and staff training. The Smart Campaign’s Client Protection Principle on Fair and Respectful Treatment […]

    Downloads

    Responsible Treatment of Clients: Practicing Non-discrimination

    06 May 2014

      Financial service providers should treat clients (including potential clients) with honesty, fairness, and respect. Due to their low social status, many low-income clients receive poor treatment when interacting with mainstream business or government organizations. This is not acceptable for pro-client financial service providers. Financial service providers discriminate when they treat people differently and less favorably because of characteristics that are not related to their ability to meet the requirements of […]

      Downloads

      Código de Ética y Conducta

      06 May 2014

        En Compartamos tenemos fuertes valores compartidos que delinean nuestra personalidad y que se expresan a través de acciones concretas que siempre buscan el bien de los demás. Nos dedicamos a ofrecer oportunidades, te invito a que des el primer paso aceptando tú mismo la oportunidad de convertirte en mejor persona, de servir con un interés auténtico en la persona, de vivir y trabajar con pasión y responsabilidad, de reconocer el […]

        Downloads

        Responding to a Crisis at FUNDESER

        05 May 2014
        • Tomas Rodríguez
        • Aracely Castillo
        • Leah Nedderman
        • Laura Galindo
        • Sergio Guzmán

        FUNDESER started in 1997 as a rural agricultural development initiative designed to deliver basic financial and non-financial services to Nicaraguan agricultural workers. In 2000, FUNDESER began specializing in rural microfinance and expanded to reach communities where people were struggling with poverty and financial exclusion. Headquartered in Managua, FUNDESER now has more than 18 branches across Nicaragua. From 2004 to 2008, FUNDESER experienced its biggest growth spurt. The number of clients […]

        Downloads

        Strategic Marketing for MicroFinance Institutions

        05 May 2014
        • Graham A.N. Wright
        • David Cracknell
        • Leonard Mutesasira
        • Rob Hudson

        Microfinance has demonstrated its potential to assist the poor to make significant strides towards reducing their vulnerability, improving their livelihoods, paying for basic health care and financing their children’s education. Many microfinance Institutions (MFIs) have demonstrated an ability to provide financial services to poor people on a sustainable, profitable basis. Together, these facts have attracted a great deal of donor of money and a wide variety of organisations into the […]

        Downloads

        Ethical Staff Behavior at Alalay Sa Kaunlaran, Inc. (ASKI)

        05 May 2014

          With limited financial resources and few service options, microfinance clients are particularly vulnerable to corruption and unscrupulous business practices. The principle of ethical staff behavior aims to ensure that financial service providers maintain high ethical standards in their interactions with microfinance clients. Adequate safeguards must be in place to detect and correct corruption from staff or mistreatment of clients. Developing and maintaining an ethical corporate culture requires that an organization […]

          Downloads

          Client Satisfaction In Microfinance Program

          05 May 2014
          • S. M. Rahman

          CARE Bangladesh through its microfinance project called INCOME III aims to increase access to financial services for the poor in Bangladesh. Improved access allows the poor to save and borrow money to meet their investment and consumptions needs. Access to microfinance has a strong correlation with poverty reduction. The INCOME III project operates in urban and per-urban areas of three big cities viz. Dhaka, Chittagong and Khulna with more than […]

          Downloads

          Financial Awareness Scoping Initiative

          05 May 2014

            In recent years, practitioners as well as policy makers have realized that financial literacy is akey dimension of financial inclusion. Extensive efforts at increasing the supply of financialservices often do not yield adequate results due to a lack of financial knowledge amongstthe population. Dr D Subbarao, Governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has drawn attentionto the key role of financial literacy in promoting inclusion by observing “Financial literacy and […]

            Downloads
            1 2 3 4 5 … 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43