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APPENDICESACRONYM NAME, LOCATION DATESEEDSSEFSHARESUNRISETonantelTSPITulcánUNRWAUWFTVivacredWAGESWR HondurasWVBSarvodaya EconomicEnterprises,Sri LankaSmall EnterpriseFoundation,South AfricaSociety for HelpingAwakening Rural poorthrough Education,IndiaSUNRISE SarajevoBosnia and HerzegovinaCooperativa Tonantel,GuatemalaTSPI DevelopmentCorporation,PhilippinesCooperativa Tulcán, Ltda.,EcuadorUnited Nations ReliefWorks Agency,GazaUganda Women’s FinanceTrust,UgandaVivacred,BrazilWomen and Associationsfor Gain both Economicand Social,TogoWorld Relief Honduras,HondurasWorld Vision,BosniaDATAQUALITYRATINGDESCRIPTION OF MICROFINANCE PROGRAM03/99 B SEEDS was established in 1987 to provide loans for employmentcreation and increasing standard of living, to mobilize depositsthrough compulsory and voluntary savings programs and to providelife and natural disaster insurances.06/99 AAA SEF is an NGO working in the Northern Province of South Africa. Itworks with a Grameen methodology to provide loans to rural women,and was founded in 1991.03/99 AAA SHARE lends to women in rural areas of Andhra Pradesh in India. Itis a member of the CASHPOR network.12/99 B SUNRISE is a NGO founded in 1997 to provide individual credit tostart-up and established micro enterprises. It is financed by theLocal Initiatives Department of the World Bank that aims to improveaccess to credit to the poor to promote economic reconstruction.09/99 AAA Tonantel is a member of the FENACOAC credit union federation,and participated in WOCCU’s technical assistance program inGuatemala. It offers loans and savings services to its members.06/99 A TSPI operates in urban and semi-urban areas of the Philippines,offering group loans to microenterprises. It was founded in 1981 andis affiliated to the Opportunity Network, the MicroFinance Networkand CASHPOR, among others.06/99 AAA Tulcán is a credit union in Ecuador, and participates in WOCCU’stechnical assistance program, begun in 1995. It offers both creditand voluntary savings services to members.12/99 B The Income Generation Program of UNRWA lends tomicroenterprises and small businesses in Gaza. It began operationsin 1991.12/99 A Uganda Women’s Finance Trust offers solidarity group and individualloans to women in Kampala and district towns of Uganda. It is anaffiliate of Women’s World Banking.06/99 AAA Vivacred is an NGO operating in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. It offersindividual loans to microentrepreneurs, and was founded in 1997.12/99 A WAGES serves women in Lomé and surrounding areas, workingwith borrowers’ associations in a village-banking type methodology.It was founded in 1994.09/99 B World Relief, Honduras was founded in 1981 as a NGO. It is part ofCOVELO network and network of NGOs FODIPREH. It offers a mixof individual, solidarity and village banking loan products to women inurban and semi-urban areas in Honduras.09/99 A Founded in 1996 as an affiliate of World Vision, the NGO providesindividual and group loans to self-employed small andmicroentrepreneurs.Note: Sources for macroeconomic country data are the IMF, International Financial Statistics and the World Bank, World DevelopmentIndicators, unless otherwise indicated.MICROBANKING BULLETIN, SEPTEMBER 2000 65