Posts Tagged ‘Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’

Microfinance Focus, Sep 6, 2010: Non-profit organization Freedom from Hunger and five microfinance banks have recently completed a $6 million Microfinance and Health Protection (MAHP) initiative launched in January 2006 with funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The initiative aims to develop and test integrated microfinance and health protection products and services that positively impact clients’ lives while being practical and sustainable for microfinance ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Sep 3, 2010: Water For People, a non-profit international development organization, has received a $5.6 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to support their Sanitation as a Business program. The grant represents an investment over four years in Water For People’s Sanitation as a Business work, testing possible sustainable sanitation services in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. The program will combine ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Dec. 29, 2009: Root Capital, an Agricultural Development Program-Related Investment Organization working in African region, plan to expand economic opportunities for 500,000 rural households in Africa with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation support.  Root Capital has received $10 million investment and $4 million grant from Bill & Melinda Gates ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Nov. 23, 2009: Pakistan's Tameer Microfinance Bank, in association with Telenor Pakistan has announced launch of Money Transfer, as part of its "easypaisa" product line. Money Transfer is a secure, easy and convenient way of sending and receiving domestic remittances through "easypaisa" outlets. Users will have the convenience to access the service from more than 4,000 "easypaisa" merchants, and the bank hopes the figure ... Full story

Microfinance Focus, Nov. 09, 2009: The World Savings Banks Institute (WSBI) will be working with members in 10 different countries as a part of a global effort to dramatically increase the number of savings accounts among poor people in developing countries. WSBI selected the banks after a global competition based on proposals to increase access to financial services and banks’ existing presence in local communities.... Full story

By Naagesh, N. Microfinance Focus, Sept. 14, 2009: With a $35 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Financial Services for the Poor initiative, the global Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), a coalition of developing countries committed to financial inclusion, was launched in Nairobi, Kenya on Monday, amid nearly 100 central bankers and other policymakers. Full story