Transcript Diapositive 1

Day 2
Ensuring access to
microfinance services for
people with disabilities
Workshop for stakeholders
from the disability and
microfinance sectors
Microfinance stakeholders
Including disabled clients in
communication materials
Making MF branches accessible
Recruiting people with disabilities
Make disabled clients’ success stories
public
Training MFI staff
And also
Communication from MFI director to all
MFI staff (newsletter or special letter)
Special conditions for groups which
include disabled members
Bonus for loan officers reaching out to
people with disabilities
Identify existing disabled clients and
getting them to recommend new
clients
Disability stakeholders
Prepare your organisation
• Staff/board members training in
microfinance
• Identify resource person / focal point for
MF issues
• Gather success stories among members
and other people with disabilities
• Build capacity to deliver non-financial
services
• Raise funds to set-up a grant scheme (if
useful)
Services to people with disabilities
• Spread information and raise awareness
on microfinance – encourage people to
save first
• Provide psycho-social support and help
people to identify their project
• Provide access to training and counselling
on business development
• Provide access to technical and vocational
training
• Provide small grants (in coordination with
an MFI), if possible and useful
Collaborate with MFI
• Support MFIs in improving their physical
accessibility
• Support MFIs in designing their
communication material
• Propose training on disability issues for
MFI staff (field and HQ)
• Participate in MFI events
• Support MFIs in recruiting people with
disabilities and adapting work stations
Work with the general public and
other service providers
• Raise public awareness on the rights of
people with disabilities
• Mobilise the media to report on disability
rights
• Involve and mobilise local authorities
What about INGOs/us?
• Promoting partnerships between local actors
from both the microfinance and disability sectors
• Proposing tools and mechanisms to support the
development of local initiatives (equipment
funds, guarantee funds, credit lines, when
possible)
• Providing technical support to DPOs and helping
to build their capacities
• Schemes for graduating to formal microfinance
services
• What aspects of what you have learnt
during this workshop will you be able to
incorporate into your professional
practice? What actions do you plan to
take once you are back in your
organisation?
• What are the actions that my
organisation can take and when?
• Which kind of partnership should my
organisation look for? Where? What
should we expect from a partner
organisation?