Innovative, client focused and sustainable, the BRAC microfinance programme is a critical component of our holistic approach to support livelihoods. Over the course of the last four decades, we have grown to become one of the world’s largest providers of financial services to the poor, providing tools which millions can use for the betterment of their lives.
2. Outline
• Update on 2013 performance
• Innovation
– New financial products and services
– Financial inclusion and integration
– Research and information systems
• Upcoming initiatives
– “One BRAC”
– Innovation Fund for Digital Financial Services
www.brac.net
3. Description of loan products
Average
loan size
Loan term
Repayment
mechanism
Major uses of loans
Dabi
$275
12 months
Equal
weekly/monthly
installments
Small operations in
poultry, livestock,
vegetable cultivation,
handicrafts and rural
trade
Progoti
$2,200
12 or 18
months
Equal monthly
installments
Working capital for
shops, agricultural
businesses and small
manufacturing
Migration
loan
$2,300
12, 18, or 24
months
First month no
installment,
Increasingly over
time
Financing outgoing
migrants’ costs,
migrants’ families well
being
www.brac.net
7. Microfinance at a Glance
Bangladesh
Particulars
Loan Portfolio:
Savings:
Members:
Borrowers:
Average Monthly Disbursement:
Staff:
As of October
2013
$ 894 million
$ 349 million
5.72 million
4.38 million
$127 million
17,000
www.brac.net
13. New products and services
• Medical loan
• Mobile money-based special savings
www.brac.net
14. Integration and inclusion
• Partnership with the Center for
Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed
• Skills training for village organization
members’ children
• Youth savings product for members of
kishori clubs (Adolescent Development
Programme)
www.brac.net
16. Research and information
• Understanding clients’ behavior and
needs
– Financial diaries
– MIS-based analyses to be followed by field
studies (with Cambridge University)
• Improving data systems through increased
GIS information and cross-program
sharing initiatives
www.brac.net
17. Mapping BRAC’s presence at the grassroots
Dinajpur Chehelgaji community resources map
www.brac.net
18. Plans for 2014 in Bangladesh
• Micro-pensions
• Financial education and client protection
• BRAC Innovation Fund for Digital
Financial Services
www.brac.net
Regular passbook (“own savings”)—compulsory; 5% at the time of dispursement, minimum of 200 per month; 6%, technically could take it out anytime
Special savings team
Monthly deposit scheme—working towards a target
Double deposit—principle doubles; put it in once, get double after 7
Fixed deposit—fixed interest rate; one year
Monthly profit scheme—getting interest every month
Add the table here
Political situation usually leads to higher PAR because harder to collect installments; write offs take effect in june and december—when we do the write off in december, it should be under 5.9%.
Ideal PAR
5.6 for dabi
4.6 for progoti
We have acquired a finance company in Sri Lanka and our portfolio from the NGO is being transferred there; becoming a regulated financial institution
Now have 4 staff on the ground in Myanmar, hoping to start disbursements in February 2014
1/3 of MF borrowers default because of medical reasons; borrow $$ from other sources at an extorbitant rate…..better if they take a loan from us
Tk 3-50k
Tell your PO/BM, I’m sick, need to go to the doctor; referral slip to BRAC hospital (Rangpur). Based on MD’s assessment, we make the payout.
End of Oct
36 loans
Will expand to more emergency-care loans.
Will also expand to ~50 BRAC clinics; panel doctors