Enhancing Livelihoods through Rural Finance

1. Enhancing Livelihoods through Rural Finance A Joint Initiativeby EastAgri LSP CABFIN

2. The Partners: • EastAgri: improving agricultural and agribusiness investments by creating an information hub to share experiences and encourage innovation • LSP –Livelihood Support Programme: promoting sustainable livelihood approaches in project implementation to increase their impact on poverty reduction. • CABFIN - Improving Capacity Building in Rural Finance: by developing an internet-based Learning Centre which meets the needs of rural finance organisations and advisers for staff development and training resources. EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

3. EBRD / CEI World Bank DfID Livelihoods Support Programme (LSP) FAO EastAgri Network OBJECTIVE: Enhancing the livelihoods of poor rural people through appropriate rural finance Improving Capacity Building in Rural Finance (CABFIN) IFAD GTZ World Bank EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

4. LSP’s Objective • To widen the coverage of EastAgri • geographically to poorer countries of central Asia, particularly Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan • in terms of effectiveness in bringing financial services to rural micro enterprises • The LSP decided one contribution would be to make the CABFIN Rural Finance Learning Centre available in Russian EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

5. Rural Finance Learning Centre www.ruralfinance.org

6. The Rural Finance Learning Centre … • A website dedicated to providing access to the best materials for capacity building in the field of rural finance. EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

7. What is rural finance? • It is about providing financial services for people living in rural areas. Financial services play an important role in enhancing livelihood security, facilitating commercial activities and reducing poverty EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

8. Who is the Learning Centre for? • Rural finance service providers– banks, cooperatives, MFIs • Task managers of projects and donor organisations • Policy-makers in governments and central banks • Suppliers of rural finance training in universities, institutes and workplaces • Staff of agricultural and enterprise advisory services working with rural people EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

9. This is the home page: EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

10. RFLC members and organisations • The training gateway: • Self study lessons • Training guides • Details of training opportunities • Past workshops • The resources gateway: • Listings and abstracts of documents and multimedia organised into topics that can be approached from the perspective of: • Policy-making • Financial service provision • Client advice You access the content through gateways: EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

11. A topic page in the resources gateway: Topic navigation Topic introduction List of resources EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

12. A topic page with resource details displayed: Topic introduction Resource abstract and details of how to download or order EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

13. A self-study lesson page: Write your answers Click here to see given answers and compare EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

14. Possibilities for EastAgri: • Navigation will be available in Russian shortly. • Network members can contribute to identifying materials to share in the resources section. • Self study lessons and training guides can be adapted and translated. • Network members can create online discussions about key issues in rural and micro finance. • The RFLC platform will help EastAgri members disseminate their materials to a wider audience. EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN

15. For more information: • Livelihood Support Programme: www.fao.org/sd/dim_pe4/pe4_040501_en.htm • Rural Finance Learning Centre: www.ruralfinance.org EastAgri-LSP-CABFIN