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About The Microfinance Capacity Building and Research Project (MCBR)

The Microfinance Capacity Building and Research Project (MCBR) is a four-year project (2003-2007), developed in conjunction with the National Economic Research Institute (NERI) within the Committee for Planning and Investment (CPI) of the Government of Lao PDR.

 

The objective of the MCBR project is to assist the Government of the Lao PDR in developing and promoting a pro-poor microfinance policy framework.  The project aims to achieve this through the following outputs: 

  • An effective, recognised microfinance unit established within CPI/NERI;
  • The publication and dissemination of lessons learnt through action research with a diversity of grassroots practitioners;
  • The formulation and endorsement of policy recommendations and draft regulations that contribute to the development of a pro-poor microfinance policy framework;
  • Improved capacity of the microfinance unit of BoL;
  • A review of the effects of the existing microfinance regulations on access to services by the poor, the transformation required of service providers to comply with these regulations and the implications for the development of a sustainable microfinance forum.

A range of activities were designed and are being implemented to ensure these outputs are met and contribute to the project objective.

 

Concern Worldwide

Concern Worldwide's vision is of a Lao PDR in which the basic needs of the people are met and in which everybody has access to the resources and opportunities necessary to lead healthy, fulfilling and peaceful lives. 

 

Our mission is to improve the lives of the poorest and most vulnerable and ensure that their basic needs are fulfilled in a sustainable manner.  This will be achieved by enhancing communities and individual access to, and control over, resources; by strengthening the capacity of government and civil society to meet the aspirations of the people, and; by promoting participatory processes and policy making which is in the interests of the poorest.

 

Our core value is targeting extreme poverty and to achieve this, we operate understanding that:

  • Development is a long-term process
  • Greater participation leads to greater commitment
  • The environment must be respected
  • Equality is a pre-requisite for development
  • Governments have primary responsibility for poverty alleviation

 

For more information, please visit our website at http://www.concern.net/, call us on +856 21 213 578 or email on laos.info@concern.net

 

The National Economic Research Institute

The National Economic Research Institutes (NERI) is part of the Lao Government's Committee for Planning and Investment (CPI) and was established in 1997. 

 

NERI is responsible for assisting the CPI through:

  • Undertaking macro and micro economic research on long-term socio-economic development strategies;
  • Researching development policies and management mechanisms;
  • Providing economic data;
  • Training planning and statistics officials at all levels in economic management;
  • Cooperating with local and foreign research institutes.

For further information, NERI can be contacted on +856 21 711 180 or visited at Km 7, Kaysone Avenue, Ban Phakao, Xaythany district, Vientiane Capital. 

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