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bank’s activities. In addition to motivation and adult education, the credit officer supervises client attendance, monitors bookkeeping accuracy, checks the accuracy of the current week’s loan and savings collections, and checks when the deposit receipt of the previous meeting. In turn, each village bank is managed by its elected officers—a president (who leads the bank’s democratic decision-making process), secretary (who takes attendance and keeps minutes) and a treasurer (responsible for accurately handling all cash transactions). Finally, each village banker has her own passbook, and her recorded balances of loan payments and savings deposits must always be the same as those recorded in the treasurer’s record for each client.
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full. The admixture of cross-guarantees and social pressure makes it possible for even the poorest people to receive loans. This method has proven very effective for FINCA, yielding a repayment rate of over 97% in its worldwide network. Village banks are highly democratic, self-managed, grassroots organizations. They elect their own leaders, select their own members, create their own bylaws, do their own bookkeeping, manage all funds, disburse and deposit all funds, resolve loan delinquency problems, and levy their own fines on members who come late, miss meetings, or fall behind in their payments.
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a daily per-capita expenditure (DPCE) of less than US$ 1, while the rest are moderately poor (DPCE=$ 1–2/day) or non-poor (DPCE >$ 2). The village bank clients meet once a week or a month to avail themselves of working capital loans, a safe place to deposit money, exchange know-how, train skills, mentor, and motivate each other. Loans normally start at $ 50–$ 100 and are linked to savings such that the more a client saves the more she can borrow. The normal loan period is four months and is repaid in 16 weekly installments. At the end of 2006, 95% of clients covered by a benchmark sample of 71
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to experience ongoing support. A digital platform and the right systematic of village bank books, client records and procedures will ensure a standardized procedure, that people in rural areas can follow. Another challenge is over time that village banks will have more savings over time than loans. That helps to reduce poverty and at the same time it is a risk for the interest-income of the village bank. It is important to have an inter-village bank money market established, so that a liquidity exchange is possible.
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methodology. It relies on a system of cross-guarantees, where each member of a village bank ensures the loan of every other member. This system gives rise to an atmosphere of social pressure within the village bank, where the cost of social embarrassment motivates bank members to repay their loans in
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ILO and GIZ have run successful village banking programs (mainly in Lao PDR) for about 20 years and further developed the village bank methodology. A digital platform was created to unify and formalize the village banks in Lao PDR. Nowadays it is one of the most effective methods to prevent poverty
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A village bank is a (sometimes informal) self-help support group of 20-30 members, predominantly female heads-of-household or as a joint account per household. According to some sources, in a typical village bank, about 50% of new members may be classified as severely poor—representing families with
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Banking, also called community banking, self-help groups or micro banking means to build an institution on grassroot levels. Financial literacy and money management training is a key factor to build a sustainable village bank. Further on, the village bank needs to be rooted in the community
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As of 2020, FINCA International reported that its 20 affiliates worldwide employed over 10,000 people, primarily local staff including credit officers and supervisors. Each credit officer attends the weekly meeting of each of her 10-15 village banks to coach its leadership committee and monitor the
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institutions (MFIs) that have collectively created over 800 village banking programs in at least 90 countries. And in many of these countries there are host-country MFIs—sometimes dozens—that are village banking practitioners as well. The latest developments globally can be seen in
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methodology whereby financial services are administered locally in a community bank rather than in a centralized commercial bank. Village banking has its roots in ancient cultures and was most recently adopted for use by micro-finance institutions (MFIs) as a way to control costs. Early village
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solidarity groups. 2. The capital is raised directly from the local community. Specially in countries with a "saving" culture (e.g. Laos) this can be seen as a main and successful model. 3. Capital injection from a donor, NGO or a private sector project is a third method to secure the initial
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Village bank loans typically use market interest rates. A 2006 study of 71 microfinance institutions engaged in village banking found an average portfolio yield of 27.7%, after adjusting for local inflation. The village bank itself will usually mark up this rate when it on-lends to individual
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