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MICROFINANCE LAW AND REGULATION
The growth of a fully-fledged global microfinance industry has engendered new regulatory challenges. IDLO believes legal professionals should spearhead the microfinance industry’s growth, advising banks, microfinance institutions, governments and donors and advocating supportive regulatory environments in their countries.
IDLO is currently implementing a three-year global project to support legal professionals in developing countries to take an active role in the microfinance industry.
For more information about IDLO’s Microfinance program, contact
the Microfinance Team
News
19/10/2009 -
IDLO Microfinance International Conference
06/07/2009 -
Microfinance - Call for Proposal Building Inclusive Financial Sectors and Supportive Legal and Regulatory Frameworks
08/06/2009 -
Last Microfinance Workshop Reaches Arab States
08/06/2009 -
Last Microfinance Workshop Reaches Arab States
30/03/2009 -
Microfinance in the Middle East Region
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SELECTED PROJECTS
Microfinance Law and Regulation Project
• Regional In-country Training Workshops: Participants develop and share their expertise on microfinance regulation. The 12 workshops created an international network of practitioners, sharing knowledge, experience and innovative ideas. Beneficiaries include local microfinance entities, NGOs, central banks, other bank regulators, think tanks, borrower groups and government law and policymakers • Post-Training Policy Dialogues: IDLO organizes post-training, cross-regional policy dialogues connecting policymakers and microfinance practitioners to share best practices and innovations.
• Summary Seminar in Rome: This event gathered selected alumni from throughout the world to create and implement in-country projects that strengthen microfinance legal and regulatory frameworks. • Institutional Strengthening Grants: IDLO provides grants to selected alumni who have successfully completed a microfinance regional training program. The grants are intended to perpetuate efforts to strengthen the country or region’s legal/regulatory structures and institutions.
Consumer Protection in the Microfinance Industry: Loan Agreements, Dispute Resolutions and Debt Collection Practices
A comparative study of the state of consumer protection laws, regulations and administrative practices in relation to microfinance borrowing by the poor, many of whom are financially if not functionally illiterate. Survey of law and practice in 20 countries focusing on contracts for microfinance loans, microfinance dispute resolution mechanisms and debt collection practices; more in-depth research of these issues in Kenya, Egypt, Cameroon, India (Tamil Nadu) and Colombia.
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