Volume : III, Issue : IV, April - 2013

Microfinance and Innovative Financing for Gender Equality : Approaches, Challenges and Strategies

Ms. Pooja V. Mehta

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Microfinance, which is widely recognised as a strategy to fight poverty, has long been considered as having its roots in the women’s/ gender equality movements. While this is true for the evolution and development of microfinance in many countries, today it has more of finance and less of gender in its overall scheme of things.The needs of women are unique, and they often face the dual burden of productive and reproductive roles – providing livelihood security for their families as well as physically looking after their households and beå children. Hence, it is critical that microfinance address gender challenges as it moves forward in its journey of empowering the poor, especially women. As microfinance grows further, it also becomes very important to professionalise it so as to optimise on performance to achieve the objectives not only of sustainability and inclusive outreach but also of livelihood security and gender impact.

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Ms. Pooja V. Mehta Microfinance and Innovative Financing for Gender Equality : Approaches, Challenges and Strategies Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.IV April 2013

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