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Eastern India Lions Leadership Academy
MICROFINANCE Low cost sustainable model
ASA India International
Eastern India Lions Leadership Academy
June 2013
MICROFINANCE AND ITS RELEVANCE IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION
Microfinance helps poor households meet basic needs and protects them against risks.
Provide with working capital for income generating activities.
Provide with additional capital for expanding running business.
Helps in asset creation and opens up more employment opportunities in the rural areas.
Save poor from the trap of money lenders. Increased access to quality education for children, access to
better health facilities and access to information on the government schemes and programme.
Micro credit has the potential to effectively contribute to the empowerment of women and development of children.
RELEVANCE IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION(CONTINUED)
Linkage building with resource agencies as well as input output
markets.Social Protection through Micro insurance-life & general
insurance.The use of financial services by low-income households
leads to improvements in household economic welfare and enterprise stability and growth.
Provides access to financial services to financially excluded.
About ASAASA India has been incorporated under the
Indian Companies Act and registered with RBI as NBFC (applied for MFI-NBFC ).
The company is part of ASA International Group that has operations in Philippines, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Cambodia.
ASA’s global operations
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ASA India-Operational Areas
Number of BranchesApr’13”
State
West Bengal
127 Fifteen District-1) Darjeeling 2) Cooch Behar 3) Jalpaiguri 4) South Dinajpur 5) Malda 6) Murshidabad 7) Birbhum 8) Nadia 9) Burdwan 10) North 24 Pgs 11) South 24 Pgs 12) Howrah 13) East Midnapore 14) Hooghly 15) Kolkata
Assam 4 One District – KamrupTripura 4 One District – AgartalaBihar 2 One District – Kishanganj
Operational Snapshot (India)Sl. No Particulars As on 30.04.2013
1 No of states 4
2 No of Districts 18
3 No of branches 137
4 No of total members 2,27,528
5 No of active clients 1,18,308
6 No of loan officers 423
7 No of total staff 631
8 Portfolio Rs in Crores 65.07
10 PAR>30 days (%) 1.45
11 Repayment rate (%) 99.37%
ASA’s Innovation in Microcredit
Flexibility of group formation/No bindings on group guarantee Simplicity and transparent system Low-costs management Standardization Delegation of authority in the field level Innovative staff recruitment and on-the-job (each one-teach one)
training Simple and shorter loan processing, less waiting time for the
borrower Written manual Strong monitoring and supervision Standard and low cost structure on furniture, fixture and overall
management costs Donors free sustainable growth, high ROA and ROE
International Recognition and Awards“Banking at the Bottom of the Pyramid” Award by
Financial Times and International Finance Corporation (IFC) UK (2008)
Selected as the best MFI worldwide by Forbes (Dec 2007)
“The Ford Motor Model of Microfinance” Asian Development Bank
Best International Technical Service Provider for UNDP Micro Start Program in the Philippines and Nigeria
Placed in all the six categories with exceptional best result: MIX Report 2005
Empowerment of Women Award
Microfinance – Social Impact
Microfinance Plus-Social Impact
Impact StudyASA India – Impact through Microfinance
Client Basanti Sarkar Activity: Papad Manufacturing ASA Group: Deep First Loan Rs.10,000/- Current Loan Rs.12,000/-
Basanti’s success story goes back to 4 years ago when her husband suffered a huge loss in his Saree business. The family was pushed towards scarcity, getting out of such situation became a major challenge in absence of finance.
She approached ASA India and narrated her situation and sought support. With funding from ASA India she decided
to go into Papad making for her livelihood activity. The activity not only supported her family, provide good education to her children, she could repay the loan as also expand her business. She continued to avail loan from ASA after repayment of the previous cycle.
Presently her annual turnover exceeds Rs 4 lakhs with annual profits of around Rs 1 lakh.
What started as a small self-employed unit now provides employment to 8 to 10 families in the locality.
“I used to spend sleepless nights worrying about my family and children when my husband’s business failed. ASA has given me a new of life and now I am able to provide my family a good living standard.”
Impact StudyClient Mala Paul Activity: Clay modeling ASA Group: NandiniFirst Loan : Rs. 8,000 Current Loan: Rs. 15,000 “ASA support in addition to the financial security has provided us and our art recognition.”
She is an empowered woman from Kumartuli area of North Kolkata who now successfully running the business venture and assisting her husband to shoulder the responsibility of her family. Her 13 year old daughter could be educated at one of the reputed schools at Kolkata.Apart from the income her talent has been recognized at state and national level through:Various awards, recognitions, cash rewards.A documentary on her talents and achievements, the documentary being selected as 4th best out of 350 documentary.A contract from Howrah Municipal Corporation for Rs. 1,40,000/- to make clay model depicting scenes from Hindu religious epic Ramayana to be displayed at Bellilious Park.
Life has been a struggle for Mala Paul and her husband Bhanu Rudra Paul before they approached ASA India. The meager Rs. 3000 income was inadequate to make ends meet. Mala Paul approached ASA India, with ASA India’s support activity expanded; orders started flowing-in thereby the turnover and income. She kept repaying the loan in a disciplined manner, again approaching for next cycle of loan. Her business now has a annual turnover of over Rs.4 lakhs with her income more than Rs. 1 Lakh.
ASA – Eastern India Lions Leadership Academy
Joint endeavor towards Poverty alleviation.
Sharing the common objective of serving the community, ASA and LIONS is jointly reaching Microfinance to the bottom of pyramid. The strength of both the organization is providing impetus to bring about development and poverty alleviation.
The joint intervention is in the form of: a) ASA identifying specific branches for
deployment of funds provided by LIONS and earmarking the branch and clients as beneficiaries of LION’s funds.
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Scope for joint endeavor towards Poverty alleviation.The strategy is self sustaining and cost effective
model.Lions routing the funding through the SBLC route
i.e.Fixed deposit in Bank offering highest
interest rate.Provide a guarantee on the lien of this fixed
deposit for Bank’s funding to ASA India whether through a cash credit.
An agreement has been entered into between ASA India and Lions detailing out the modus-operandi and the terms of tie-up.
ASA – Eastern India Lions Leadership AcademyImpact of tie-upMicrofinance and its benefits reaching the bottom of
pyramid.Lions deploying its resources for its objective not as
one-time grant or donation but as a growing corpus.Lions reaching the collective through its other social
relevant activities.ASA availing funding at reasonable rates for onward
lending.ASA increasing its outreach and expanding
territories.Banks increasing its deposit and Priority sector loan
portfolio.
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Joint endeavor towards Poverty alleviation.
Other social intervention by LIONS integrated into the Microfinance activity.
Microfinance ++ activities also integrated into the scheme.
ASA InternationalOur thanks to LIONS for the opportunity to
make this presentation.
We look forward to meeting you again, as also a binding and long term relationship to bring about development at the bottom of pyramid.
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