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Microfinance NGOs vs bank
Sadaket Malik **
The role of non-governmental (NGO) microfinance (MF) must be examined from an operational perspective. Based on studies based on research and expert opinion, the selected literature on microfinance and author's own experience during the last decade, this work is to establish two main points. First, he says, with some notable exceptions, the registration of NGOs in the integration of microfinance is a humble opinion about the context of NGOs as microfinance institutions (MFIs). Judging from the two criteria of success that many people of microfinance has passed – to help the poor and financial sustainability – the results are not encouraging [Nair, 2001]. NGOs and MFIs so far have struggled to achieve both goals simultaneously. There is also little evidence of an overall impact on poverty reduction as a result of raids MFIs. The success of NGOs has been commendable, but when facilitating social intermediation and criteria are applied. It is here that the author believes that the strategic partnership between banks and NGOs is to change the map of development intervention in India. Second, the evidence suggests that banks, for all his work was commendable, made a strategic error by focusing on financial intermediation, ignoring the partnership with NGOs. Although microfinance is not easy for other types institutions are trying to practice (eg, NGOs or credit unions), is not, as we shall see, an area where a banker has natural advantages.
Why is society?
To the extent that banks incorporate the activities of NGOs in the integration of self-help group (SHG) portfolios, which have everything to gain. For non-governmental organizations can reorient their mission, vision and staff in the microfinance program, like many they have in the last decade, probably away from their jobs are particularly well placed to do so. Some of these works, moreover, could play In a key role in preparing the ground for the poor mF. In other words, NGOs have to move away from pure financial intermediation and investment in human capital base social and bankers to take advantage of this valuable experience of NGOs in mobilizing, a diploma and allow rural communities. This will pave the way by building capacity to absorb credit-help groups and strengthening of its creditworthiness. The presentation then explains how.In 1997, the World Bank Sustainable Banking for the Poor (SBP) completed a survey of the ambitious project. Until then, those who are interested in microfinance has an intuitive sense of the movement's growth, but no systematic attempt has been made to determine its size, or to examine in detail the results. The results were unequivocal: NGOs as institutions do not reach significant vis-à-vis other financial institutions to transmit micro-credit.
Interestingly, commercial banks accounted for 78 percent of total microcredit movement, credit unions and 11 percent. NGOs accounted for only 9 percent, and savings banks (which are mainly in the credit sector), only 2 percent. In addition, commercial banks accounted for 68 percent of the total balance of outstanding loans to 15 percent savings, credit unions 13 percent and 4 percent of NGOs. As the number of clients, commercial banks and credit unions showed significantly greater general awareness of NGOs. Although knowledge NGOs, on average, was more profound, is also nearby – NGOs reach the poorest, but not much. Moreover, credit unions and commercial banks some also serve wealthy clients to its average circulation for the poor is not so deep. However, there are indications that, in general, credit unions and commercial banks are under-served poor clients and NGOs.
This does not exclude the role of NBFC, emerging NGO activities MFI MFI or pure. Demand financial services is high as indicated by the High Level Task Force MF: "At least 25,000 bank branches, 4,000 and 2,000 support groups, NGOs Federations of over 1,00,000 personnel of these institutions should be involved in outreach and liaison Bank of one million SHGs. Many of these NGOs in MFIs and not only to facilitate microfinance, but also intermediary financial need. Similarly, many federations of SHGs have financial intermediation and to act as the MFI. "
India TaleWe India.In reorient the current environment, with more than 4,60,000 SHGs credit linked to banks, the program liaison SHG-bank microfinance emerged as the largest in the world. But besides banks, the important role of NGOs to facilitate this transformation can not be underestimated. The National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), which plays a role in the promotion and facilitation ties of the bank, while networking and coordination activities of all actors in the field has highlighted the crucial role played by NGOs as facilitators in the transfer of bank credit to SHGs ..
The writing is on the wall. The success has been largely co-written by banks and NGOs. However, attention here is pertinent to note the wide network of rural bank branches, which excludes the need for a new generation of MFIs in expert opinion "If it is" slow and expensive to build, "[Harper, 2002]. In fact, that Harper said" the system uses the marketing channels existing self-help groups, banks, to bring formal financial services to a new market segment, the poor and especially women.
Relationship Banks vs parallel banking
The distinct lineage of MF in India can be attributed to this type that is locally advanced and relationships called "Banker" in contrast to the model Grameen of the "parallel banking [Chavan and Ramkumar, 2002]. The real basis for the funding of groups supporting a sustainable basis in India is that the Bank is the link financial results with the exceptions that prove the rule. Inherent to this success, but underestimated, is that NGOs have played an important role in making links SHG-bank. Relationship banking is the result of the interface of NGOs in the Bank to raise funds for groups. NGOs have had considerable success as promoters (to help support groups and allow access to bank credit) and not as suppliers (direct supplier credit). This writer is juxtaposed the testimony of the study of SBP against FM NGOs as facilitators to their success in India to make a case for NGOs as social scientists or agents of change rather than financial intermediaries. This role is probably the area banker. In addition, there are institutional factors and normative weight to protect against any similar mishaps.
First there are legal limitations to NGOs operating as MFIs as noted by the Working Group: "A lot of NGO-MFIs to mobilize savings from its clients / borrowers with the sole aim of inculcating the habit savings and thrift among the poor and to allow the use of these resources for the acquisition of assets or links to IMF credit or banks. As part of the Amended Article 45 of the RBI Act S, the relevance of NGO-MFIs to mobilize savings is questionable. While NGOs and MFIs Financial services useful to the poor, including the ability to retain their savings very small safe, almost at their doors, they can become in other modes of incorporation, as NBFC, banks and cooperatives, due to various obstacles intrinsic character. Therefore, NGOs-MFIs may be granted an exception in article 45 of the RBI Act, S. Consequently, it is recommended that they be allowed to mobilize savings as part of their poor clients of financial services that are provided and the same can not be considered a violation of Article 45 of the S RBI Act.
Limitations "intrinsic", said they are not hard to guess. In addition, some organizations NGOs that are purely savings mobilization may also face other risks. The problem for NGOs in the treatment of savings is that the point of view ultimately risk, mobilizing savings and microcredit is not the same. Therefore, the law treats them differently. From the perspective customer, the risks of saving with NGOs are masked by the growing confidence that non-governmental organizations show that they are here to stay. But NGOs are not in most cases operate in environments that allow them to mobilize regulations deposits which do not benefit from deposit insurance or operations to be controlled by the banking supervisory agencies. And when the covariant risk is high, as when group members are all the same sector and, necessarily, the same community or locality, the thinness of the position of NGOs is even more dangerous for the investor. In addition to the integrity and prudent custodians of the savings required provisioning and the establishment of reserves to cover liquidity and other risks.
Savings Credit MinimalismWhile "only" is a story of disaster Limited, on the other side of the story is about the NGOs that use of "credit first" or minimalist principles of credit. When economies are part of the credit base a financial institution, this institution has to be a problem, often tormented path to sustainability, which begins the course of a more sustainable path. However, NGOs have entered the microfinance with donor money, and move towards sustainability, without, in most cases, the advantage of mobilizing voluntary savings. In developing the short, sustainable programs developed by NGOs are hampered from the start. It seems that the poor lack of your product (credit) unless they want to save money, by itself, does little credit for the creation of productive assets.
The attack rate a shot in poverty is the biggest nightmare is sustainable development planner. An example is CARE Savings and Credit for Family Business (Cashe) Project in India which is more than a lending program of an institution financial viability. Unfortunately, credit and financial credit needs of the community clients must survive six years of conservation and the life of a of the most ambitious projects in micro-loans to hit the coast of India. The poor state design is obvious that the budget does not include Cashe generating components revenue for development of skills. The best intentions are to give a push through the poverty line without the financial viability to households or to provide funding repeats.
The incompatibility between the tendency of NGOs to high level (for the sake of extending the concession) and financial sustainability is well summarized William F. Steel World Bank consultant, that "grant-based methods are inappropriate for financial intermediation, especially the provision of credit funds (including collection, no payment is the most critical). The other type of NGO MFIs with credit and savings have limited success, as the study found PAS was nothing special in terms of awareness and sustainability. Many face problems of growth and some have been removed.
These failures are highlighted also by Kanta Singh (WISE Development Authority) in a case study of the CARE-sponsored program Cashe "hipster loans and long cycle time disbursement of the loan are more irritating. Many groups have gotten loans in the past lose energy when they are later (credit) relationships. "Without the training and hold hands on the income generation programs are seen as a major flaw in the design of Cashe groups. This need is also felt (partner) NGOs that seek to increase the loan application and the ability to self-help groups to handle large loans.In India at the request of the instruments safe and liquid savings poor is very high. In fact, NGOs, the poor sensitivity and privacy of individuals, to overcome nervousness that poor villagers are illiterate and the harbor on the staff of the bank (not noted for his kindness). The World Bank Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest Poor (CGAP), whose mandate is to help microfinance institutions to improve performance, concluded that "… Most microfinance clients want to save all the time, while most do not want to borrow some time. "
However, NGOs face a dilemma when savings overstrip request credit, ie, interest paid considerably reduces the margin of interest income. His limited experience and track their money elsewhere exacerbate this problem. CARE / Guatemala 's Village Banking program is driven by money lenders, loans extended range strongly in 1994. As outstanding loan balance following grew at an annual rate of 78 percent between 1993 and 1995. By contrast, mobilization of voluntary savings increased during the same period an annual increase of 215 per percent.
Trade-off record TribulationsThe PAS cases (a dozen have been NGOs) suggests that microfinance NGOs, often encouraged by donors, have come to accept the two objectives sustainability (the subject of strict measures) and knowledge (as measured by the amount of loans is increasing as a percentage of GNP per capita), the following commitment and adjustments are observed: (1) growth of the portfolio concentrated in areas with population density (and therefore focus less on rural areas). (2) Given the rapid growth of the initial volume lending, leading to portfolio quality. (3) maintain the salaries of field staff under (or increase the number of clients per loan officer) to control costs, which tend to high turnover and low morale. (4) For the retail and services with high cash flows allow high repayment rates, which tends, from manufacturing and loans (5). Emphasizing short-term loans as a strategy rates reimbursement and the growing size of the loan, thereby eliminating the cyclical sectors such as agriculture (6). Meet up in the poverty measure at most poor in order to keep the loan application and reimbursement rates (75 percent of NGOs PAS has shown that this "slip"). Have NGOsNGOs Competitive Advantage a crucial role in the training group, SHG power in the promotion of pre-micro capacity, and capacity to absorb funds. forms based on groups of loans (eg, solidarity groups, community banks) came primarily for the benefit of the lender that the solutions to two problems microfinance organizations face: (i) the problem of lack of collateral, and (ii) the problem of high transaction costs in evaluating loans, monitoring and enforcement. Theoretically The group serves as a set of co-guarantors of operations through peer pressure and motivation of group members to stay solvent for each other that they do not miss the opportunity to receive a loan. The group is also a way to circumvent imperfect information, since members of group know each other. Therefore, the transaction costs associated with the evaluation of the loans is reduced or eliminated.
This is where NGOs play slum key role in the transformation of atypical women with two children to fend for themselves in a responsible commitment of the group and the resource group. It is a fact repeated in a village after another. This autonomy of women in the NGO credit and savings is debatable, but it is an empirical fact that these groups provide effective coping mechanisms. Peer pressure is the best guarantee. The banker of India must recognize that the high rates of reimbursement for self-help groups is not inherent structure of self-help groups, but the attachment group values. The role of NGOs in investment groups with values through human capital is a specialization undeniable. In the words of economist Jagdish Bhagwati: "These values (of civil society and democracy) are best developed by the political and financial support of … NGOs and many more and more, both here and abroad, working tirelessly to fight the world in the right direction. "The banker should accept a role that NGOs, as committed social engineer, is best suited to carry out. This does not deny the qualities of empathy, humanism, Engineering Social bankers. But the sad truth is that there is a need for a rational division of labor. If the bankers will meet the poor with financial services they need to deal with certain realities. First, what they are doing is paying poverty, not economic development or business development. Second, should realize that potential impacts may be. Changes in people's lives will be immediate in terms of alleviating the burden of poverty, but small loans to poorest will not permanently out of poverty. arguably, the banking system rather than an art. Undoubtedly, that serves to facilitate the productivity of small companies really an art. And yet, due to its grass roots orientation, because of their commitment because they are less bureaucratic and full of great aid agencies for development, NGOs are able to overcome an obstacle subtle, but important for facilitating success story – the "knowledge package and skills.
Again, this is not the case to discourage NGOs from Monday to Friday, but to emphasize the role of emotional capital that will bring in an element of quality. More NGOs that are in microfinance, the challenge of contributing to a greater articulation of the parties and actors in the local economy, more than likely have to participate non-financial services. The effects of these services are difficult to measure in the short term. However, NGOs can take the tasks, many already do so.Thus, organizations NGOs fill an important gap in the quality level of the base to help the poor not only to borrow, but also be a good investment for banks. This will help boost rural issues, sector and cover the gaps and constraints that could hinder a banker with the conflicting demands of their workload. Many banks and financial institutions have recognized the role of NGOs and political organization of appropriate initiatives. Greater recognition of this need is reflected in statistics on the mode of bonding, which we have quoted above (see table), which provides the Bank's partnership of NGOs in the MF spectrum of India. A true recognition of the individual banker would lead to a sense of place of usual skepticism Business NGOs. This will be the strategic point breakthrough in making India a bank account and card paradigm for NGOs in the world and the bankers.
The author is a freelance columnist based in Jammu and Kashmir *** and can be contacted at sadaketmalik@rediffmail.com

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