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Joint Action Research with Partner Institutions

Action research on topics or themes of common interest to the partners in the KMP will be undertaken.  Each of the partners will bring in different experience, interests and strengths: thus CIDR might focus on participatory and membership-based systems and DFS on the elaboration of practical management tools in support to rural finance institutions, while IFAD will bring its own experience and lessons, particularly on issues relative to the development of systemic linkages for rural finance service delivery between membership-based institutions, MFIs, and commercial and central banks. The IFAD-supported projects and programmes will themselves play an important role in identifying these research priorities. To the extent that other institutions become engaged in the partnership, SCC might bring its experiences in savings and credit cooperatives, while IAC would share experiences in research on policy and institutional issues.

Action research on topics or themes of common interest to the partners in the KMP will be undertaken.  Each of the partners will bring in different experience, interests and strengths: thus CIDR might focus on participatory and membership-based systems and DFS on the elaboration of practical management tools in support to rural finance institutions, while IFAD will bring its own experience and lessons, particularly on issues relative to the development of systemic linkages for rural finance service delivery between membership-based institutions, MFIs, and commercial and central banks. The IFAD-supported projects and programmes will themselves play an important role in identifying these research priorities. To the extent that other institutions become engaged in the partnership, SCC might bring its experiences in savings and credit cooperatives, while IAC would share experiences in research on policy and institutional issues. Action research on topics or themes of common interest to the partners in the KMP will be undertaken.  Each of the partners will bring in different experience, interests and strengths: thus CIDR might focus on participatory and membership-based systems and DFS on the elaboration of practical management tools in support to rural finance institutions, while IFAD will bring its own experience and lessons, particularly on issues relative to the development of systemic linkages for rural finance service delivery between membership-based institutions, MFIs, and commercial and central banks. The IFAD-supported projects and programmes will themselves play an important role in identifying these research priorities. To the extent that other institutions become engaged in the partnership, SCC might bring its experiences in savings and credit cooperatives, while IAC would share experiences in research on policy and institutional issues. Action research on topics or themes of common interest to the partners in the KMP will be undertaken.  Each of the partners will bring in different experience, interests and strengths: thus CIDR might focus on participatory and membership-based systems and DFS on the elaboration of practical management tools in support to rural finance institutions, while IFAD will bring its own experience and lessons, particularly on issues relative to the development of systemic linkages for rural finance service delivery between membership-based institutions, MFIs, and commercial and central banks. The IFAD-supported projects and programmes will themselves play an important role in identifying these research priorities. To the extent that other institutions become engaged in the partnership, SCC might bring its experiences in savings and credit cooperatives, while IAC would share experiences in research on policy and institutional issues.

Funds will be provided under the grant for the recruitment of short-term consultants who will undertake action research studies in areas considered of critical importance.  A number of possible areas have already been tentatively identified; these include the following:

  1. Review of lessons learnt by those countries in the region that have recently revised the policy and legal framework for rural financial service delivery (e.g. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Lesotho and Mozambique), with a view to sharing these across the region;
  2. Review of the sorts of requirements for enhancing institutional capacity, extending effective regulation and supervision, and intermediating remittance flows, needed in order to expand savings services in rural areas;
  3. Draw lessons from the MIX Market initiative for promoting standardized reporting, with a view to improving the information (collection, processing and management) systems of smaller rural institutions; and
  4. Review lessons from projects such as the Vegetable Oil Development Project in Uganda and the Eastern Province Horticulture and Traditional Food Crops Project in Kenya on issues related to value chain financing and financial linkages between input suppliers, processing firms, warehouses and other commercial actors, with a view to enhancing the supply of rural finance services by these actors.
Review of lessons learnt by those countries in the region that have recently revised the policy and legal framework for rural financial service delivery (e.g. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Lesotho and Mozambique), with a view to sharing these across the region;
  • Review of the sorts of requirements for enhancing institutional capacity, extending effective regulation and supervision, and intermediating remittance flows, needed in order to expand savings services in rural areas;
  • Draw lessons from the MIX Market initiative for promoting standardized reporting, with a view to improving the information (collection, processing and management) systems of smaller rural institutions; and
  • Review lessons from projects such as the Vegetable Oil Development Project in Uganda and the Eastern Province Horticulture and Traditional Food Crops Project in Kenya on issues related to value chain financing and financial linkages between input suppliers, processing firms, warehouses and other commercial actors, with a view to enhancing the supply of rural finance services by these actors.
    • Review of lessons learnt by those countries in the region that have recently revised the policy and legal framework for rural financial service delivery (e.g. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Lesotho and Mozambique), with a view to sharing these across the region;
  • Review of the sorts of requirements for enhancing institutional capacity, extending effective regulation and supervision, and intermediating remittance flows, needed in order to expand savings services in rural areas;
  • Draw lessons from the MIX Market initiative for promoting standardized reporting, with a view to improving the information (collection, processing and management) systems of smaller rural institutions; and
  • Review lessons from projects such as the Vegetable Oil Development Project in Uganda and the Eastern Province Horticulture and Traditional Food Crops Project in Kenya on issues related to value chain financing and financial linkages between input suppliers, processing firms, warehouses and other commercial actors, with a view to enhancing the supply of rural finance services by these actors.
    • Review of lessons learnt by those countries in the region that have recently revised the policy and legal framework for rural financial service delivery (e.g. Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Lesotho and Mozambique), with a view to sharing these across the region;
  • Review of the sorts of requirements for enhancing institutional capacity, extending effective regulation and supervision, and intermediating remittance flows, needed in order to expand savings services in rural areas;
  • Draw lessons from the MIX Market initiative for promoting standardized reporting, with a view to improving the information (collection, processing and management) systems of smaller rural institutions; and
  • Review lessons from projects such as the Vegetable Oil Development Project in Uganda and the Eastern Province Horticulture and Traditional Food Crops Project in Kenya on issues related to value chain financing and financial linkages between input suppliers, processing firms, warehouses and other commercial actors, with a view to enhancing the supply of rural finance services by these actors.
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