Community-Managed Microfinance: A new and sustainable approach to microfinance for the poor
The Community-managed Microfinance (CMMF) course exposes participants to best practice by the leading practitioner organisations that are promoting savings-based community-managed microfinance.
The course covers 5 key areas:
- General introduction, covering principles and emerging best practice; the scale and extent of practitioner programmes; methodological background and emerging issues
- Practice sessions illustrating the VS&L methodology used by CARE, CRS and Plan International, with reference to methodological variations promoted by Oxfam
- Management Information Systems for CMMF
- Approaches to programme design
- Implementation planning and budgeting
Course Objectives:
The objectives of this course are for participants to:
- To understand the basic rationale for CMMF and to understand what type of target group most benefits from the system
- To gain familiarity with the training approach and tools and make informed choices about which system of combination of systems best suits their clients and staff
- To be able to track and measure programme performance
- To be able to design and cost a CMMF programme
