Microfinance is a unique tool to fight poverty, based on the experience that poor people are capable to take control over their own lives.
The Netherlands Platform for Microfinance consists of 15 Dutch organisations that work together to improve the effectiveness of their microfinance activities.
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01-02-‘10
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17-11-‘09
Pim Engels wint eerste University Meets Microfinance AwardParijs, 10 November 2009 Dinsdag 10 november 2009 ontvangt Pim Engels in Parijs de University Meets Microfinance (UMM) Award 2009 tijdens het...
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29-06-‘09
Book review and lessons for de microfinance sector by Jan Postmus (Cordaid)
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18-03-‘09
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26-05-‘08
Code of Ethics to be Established in MicrofinanceAt the initiative of Deutsche Bank, The Boulder Institute, and CGAP, leaders of microfinance institutions, investors, banks and development agencies gathered...
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06-06-‘08
NPM has held recently with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs a discussion about the additionality of public funding in microfinance. you will find here a summary of key questions and remarks.
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28-01-‘08
'Additionality of Public Funding in Microfinance' NPM and The Netherlands Government have commissioned a desk study on 'Additionality of Public Funding in Microfinance'. Purpose was to analyse to what...
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28-01-‘08
"Towards more effective microfinance in India: Coordinated efforts from the Netherlands" was the title of an internal workshop of NPM-members in January 2008. Purpose was to review current issues for...
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13-06-‘07
In a recent paper, MicroRate* concludes that government-owned development finance institutions are limiting their microfinance lending to the strongest microfinance institutions (MFIs). This leaves the...
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02-04-‘07
The Business in Development (BiD) Challenge is the first international business plan competition for entrepreneurship and development. The BiD Challenge offers entrepreneurs worldwide the opportunity to...
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13-03-‘07
The report of the poverty and impact assessment study of three MFIs (microfinance institutions) in Mozambique, commissioned by the Netherlands Platform for Microfinance and funded by some of its members,...
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14-02-‘07
Credit Suisse and ACCION International invite you to register now for Microfinance Cracking the Capital Markets II, the second ACCION conference on microfinance investment, held in New York March 19-20,...
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13-10-‘06
The Bangladeshi economist Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen bank he founded, won the Nobel Peace Prize 2006 for pioneering the use of microcredit.
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19-09-‘06
Triodos Bank organiseert voorafgaand aan en in het kader van de Amsterdam Global Conference on Sustainability and Finance op 5 en 6 oktober een side event op woensdagmiddag 4 oktober.
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04-09-‘06
Unieke Nederlandse publiekprivate samenwerking investeert in jonge, lokale kredietorganisaties
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01-01-‘01
Frank Bakx, voorzitter van het Nederlands Platform Microfinanciering, heeft tijdens de boekpresentatie op 28 maart het eerste exemplaar in ontvangst genomen van het boek "Mutualist Microfinance. Informal...
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28-12-‘05
Den Haag: Vijfhonderdveertig miljoen arme mensen kunnen geen gebruik maken van producten als microkrediet, sparen en verzekeren. Door een tekort aan lokale banken in ontwikkelingslanden blijft een groot...
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08-11-‘05
Het Nederlands Platform Microfinanciering heeft een award van de UNCDF (United Nations Capital Development Fund) gekregen. De Secretaris Generaal van de UNCDF, dhr Weingarten, reikte op 7 november 2005...
Last update: 22 October 2004