vote for top 100 microfranchises of net generation - 260SmithWatt 70Neumann 50F.Abed , AI20s.com Fei-Fei Li, Zbee2024-03-28T14:13:38Zhttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/vote-for-top-100-microfranchises-of-net-generation?commentId=6339278%3AComment%3A20640&feed=yes&xn_auth=noY12 Kiva and ZIP
In its origi…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-10-01:6339278:Comment:206412014-10-01T21:22:07.780Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Y12 Kiva and ZIP</p>
<p>In its original form, Kiva ia a curate's egg of a model - as far as we understand you are not exactly choosing who to fund but will be assigned a similar location/type of businesss</p>
<p>Kiva Zip has established the direct model but as yet the mian country that permits it is only USA</p>
<p>However there are 2 reasons why we believe Kiva (in spite of being work in progress) merits an entry in any world record job creation book</p>
<p>It just about invented the…</p>
<p>Y12 Kiva and ZIP</p>
<p>In its original form, Kiva ia a curate's egg of a model - as far as we understand you are not exactly choosing who to fund but will be assigned a similar location/type of businesss</p>
<p>Kiva Zip has established the direct model but as yet the mian country that permits it is only USA</p>
<p>However there are 2 reasons why we believe Kiva (in spite of being work in progress) merits an entry in any world record job creation book</p>
<p>It just about invented the digitally scaled loan - and these days that links to future generations of crowfunding too</p>
<p>It helped many student networks to form their own lab and relationship with a developing world poverty community -the direct knowhow that students get from such action learning is second to none. Its not just students that Kiva has caught the imagination - see the I<a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-International-Bank-Bob-Connecting/dp/0802777511" target="_blank">nternational Bank of BOB</a>. Its cultural tales of pockets of poverty all over the world is the sort of source that 21st C learning (and the race to become borderless citizens) urgently needs</p> Y11 Savings Groups and Puddle…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-10-01:6339278:Comment:206402014-10-01T21:06:51.216Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Y11 Savings Groups and Puddle</p>
<a href="http://savings-revolution.org/" target="_blank">http://savings-revolution.org/</a><p>40 years on fom the grameen lending circle, it is interestinf to note that manual savings groups look like scaling in teh 2010s . That's according to the book <em>In Their Hands by </em></p>
<p><span>jeffrey ashe and Kyla Neilan</span></p>
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<p><span>The major savings groups networks care. plan international, freedom from hunger, aga khan,…</span></p>
<p>Y11 Savings Groups and Puddle</p>
<a href="http://savings-revolution.org/" target="_blank">http://savings-revolution.org/</a><p>40 years on fom the grameen lending circle, it is interestinf to note that manual savings groups look like scaling in teh 2010s . That's according to the book <em>In Their Hands by </em></p>
<p><span>jeffrey ashe and Kyla Neilan</span></p>
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<p><span>The major savings groups networks care. plan international, freedom from hunger, aga khan, catholic relief, oxfam</span> <span>america</span> <span>have set goal by 2020 of 50 million poorest in savings groups by 2020. These savings groups remain mainly manual though in some cases technlogy has brough the tine it takes to train a new group by 5 fold or more</span></p>
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<p><span>However where law and technology permit , everyone can now host their own savings group - <a href="http://www.puddle,com" target="_blank">http://www.puddle,com</a> . It could just be that the 2020 goal of 50 million served will be an underestimate.</span></p>
<p></p> 43 Jobs telecentres -women an…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-25:6339278:Comment:207062014-09-25T14:05:29.203Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>43 Jobs telecentres -women and millennials empowerment makes great struded where jobs telecntres are organised round microfanchise searches</p>
<p>eg which foods can small producres coperatively linin to an export market using such models as blessed coffee's virtual exchange</p>
<p>or which jobs can youth do if they have been taught to code</p>
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<p>44 nanocredit combined with telecentres becomes a massive way of connecting - nanocredit can be esigned so tens of millions of people are…</p>
<p>43 Jobs telecentres -women and millennials empowerment makes great struded where jobs telecntres are organised round microfanchise searches</p>
<p>eg which foods can small producres coperatively linin to an export market using such models as blessed coffee's virtual exchange</p>
<p>or which jobs can youth do if they have been taught to code</p>
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<p>44 nanocredit combined with telecentres becomes a massive way of connecting - nanocredit can be esigned so tens of millions of people are gioen back a market network that most concerns them</p>
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<p>45 most last mile models of bottom-up multinationals (20 discussed at d-lab mit 2014)involve large numbers of jobs for local service distribution -eg if you are disttributing clean water the logistics need can be as efficient as home delivery of take away foods in bit cities- note that everyone is connected by mobile even as other devices bytraditional mass marketing expects to be available are not in the vilage's infrastructire</p>
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<p>46 rice is arguably agriculture's ultimate microfrnachise - with over 60% of porest dependent on it as their main food, but with neither particulatr advantage to large farming nor particular need to distribute it beyond local region of growth; conversely exotoc forms of rice can make high value export marksts</p> The Economist actively began…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-20:6339278:Comment:205412014-09-20T20:55:33.533Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>The Economist actively began creating its curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution in 1976 with the headline: none of the biggest organisational typologies of the late 20th century will prove capable of sustaining the net generation. The most urgent economic hosted by economist needs to look for missing organisational system designs which invest the best for humanity not the worse for humanity characteristics of</p>
<p>corporations</p>
<p>place governments </p>
<p>non government…</p>
<p>The Economist actively began creating its curriculum of Entrepreneurial Revolution in 1976 with the headline: none of the biggest organisational typologies of the late 20th century will prove capable of sustaining the net generation. The most urgent economic hosted by economist needs to look for missing organisational system designs which invest the best for humanity not the worse for humanity characteristics of</p>
<p>corporations</p>
<p>place governments </p>
<p>non government orgs</p>
<p>Yunus became the most practical/visible leader of this trans-hemisphere debate by the late 1980s . He demonstrated how to sustain goal-driven system beyond-aid, and beyond charity-and identified this with offering consultancy (eg grameen trust) on bottom-up and southern NGO in scaling microfranchise solutions to humanity's most critical problems.</p>
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<p>people he actively influenced include</p>
<p>- the Clintons prior to Bill's first presidency</p>
<p>Obama's mother (see film) who led Indonesia's implementation of womensworldbanking in the 1980s</p>
<p>Maria Nowak - Europe's leading designer of banks for jobs</p>
<p>Ingrid Munro- who inspired by yunus invented the first youth and mobile operated microcredit out of kenya</p> The common core of the two mi…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-20:6339278:Comment:206012014-09-20T20:04:16.929Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>The common core of the two microcredit womens networks to do most to achieve the economic miracle of ending "village" poverty in the pre-digital age : education</p>
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<tbody><tr><td><p>In grameen bank's case, educational programs are called: <a href="http://www.grameenshikkha.com/" target="_blank">grameen shikkha</a></p>
<p>Grameen's one female founding director <a href="http://mother%20of%20microdredit" target="_blank">mrs begum</a> ,who was responsible back in 1979 for developing…</p>
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<p>The common core of the two microcredit womens networks to do most to achieve the economic miracle of ending "village" poverty in the pre-digital age : education</p>
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<tbody><tr><td><p>In grameen bank's case, educational programs are called: <a href="http://www.grameenshikkha.com/" target="_blank">grameen shikkha</a></p>
<p>Grameen's one female founding director <a href="http://mother%20of%20microdredit" target="_blank">mrs begum</a> ,who was responsible back in 1979 for developing the 16 decision culture to include members' commitment to send all children to primary school. Mrs Begum is the essence of the training and deeply pro-women culture that makes grameen bank unique;</p>
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<p>Grameen's education services primarily revolve round awarding secondary scholarships two third to girls. Most of these scholarships came out of dividends to members.</p>
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<p>Grameen branding across rural Banglaedesh is as both mothers and daughters most trusted intergenerational focus on what life can be about, This relationship makes Grameen best placed (of any girl effect networks) to ensure that no talented village girl fails to get to secondary stage;</p>
<p><em>The joy is palpable when you litsten to DR YUuus speaking:: Illiterate mothers have daughters who are doctors, a "the mothers could have been doctors too, society didn't give them a chance". </em></p>
<p> Secondary scholarships as a social business. If you can afford a 6 year free loan of approximately $1200, you can sponsor a village girl through secondary school. And roll the laon on if you want to sponsir a second child</p>
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<p>Grameen Bank as run by Yunus maintained and regularly reported goals. Alongside data on loans for mothers income generation , the two longest times series of cumulative goals invested in are number of <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:20540" target="_self">houses</a>bulit, and numbers of student scholarhsips to secondary schools</p>
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<td> In <a href="http://brac.tv" target="_blank">BRAC's</a> case: the biggest program involves serving 40000 village primary schools using a model similar to Gandhi-Montessori</td>
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<p>The monsoon proof, cyclone proof hut. This was a big deal for grameen bank and its members in several ways</p>
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<p>It was the first time grameen had invested in a program that the barefoot bank manager couldnt personally carry to the banking circles</p>
<p>It won the aga khan architecture award for low cost and high functionally putting grameen and yunus on the stage of world class laureates</p>
<p>Its home and safety values to mothers and children also integrated the pit latrine as a…</p>
<p>The monsoon proof, cyclone proof hut. This was a big deal for grameen bank and its members in several ways</p>
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<p>It was the first time grameen had invested in a program that the barefoot bank manager couldnt personally carry to the banking circles</p>
<p>It won the aga khan architecture award for low cost and high functionally putting grameen and yunus on the stage of world class laureates</p>
<p>Its home and safety values to mothers and children also integrated the pit latrine as a core part of the design</p>
<p>Only the mothers could sign the mortgage loan for the hut- this reversed the cultural rule that mother and children could be immediatlely thrown out of the home on a husband's say so</p>
<p>What sightings of housing for the opoor innovations have emerged 30 yeras</p> Grameen's microfranchise of c…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-20:6339278:Comment:205392014-09-20T14:28:19.049Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Grameen's microfranchise of carrot seeds shows how the simplest interventions can:</p>
<p>be the most productive if they multiply positive dynamics of a deeply designed network</p>
<p>lead to extraordinary learning curves throughout an end-poverty entrepreneur's lifetime</p>
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<p>Carrot seeds in one cent packs were the first non-financial service grameen bank managers were asked to deliver during their weekly visits to each of the 60 by 60 village mother banking circles they were…</p>
<p>Grameen's microfranchise of carrot seeds shows how the simplest interventions can:</p>
<p>be the most productive if they multiply positive dynamics of a deeply designed network</p>
<p>lead to extraordinary learning curves throughout an end-poverty entrepreneur's lifetime</p>
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<p>Carrot seeds in one cent packs were the first non-financial service grameen bank managers were asked to deliver during their weekly visits to each of the 60 by 60 village mother banking circles they were trusted to sustain. This changed the design of each banking circle -from an inside hut to a vegetable garden attached</p>
<p>In Grameen's earliest days, custom prevented yunus from speaking directly to his target female customers. So he spent a lot of time observing his female students work with potential Grameen members from the centre of the village where all the children joyfully mob strangers.. As dusk arrived, he noticed most children were night blind. Medical friends advised him this would be caused by lack of vitamins- and carrots were the simplest cure. </p>
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<p>Where dis this lead to? Emotionally it made Yunus a champion of future banking for youth. Intellectually he discovered that the first 1000 days of infant nutrition are critical if the brain is to form optimally. Ever since, Yunus has never lost a chnace to ask potential partners as to whether they have any nutritional ideas. Indeed the worlds first global social bsuienss partebrshipwas founded with damone around its milk chain delivering fortified yogurts to vilage nfants</p>
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<p>The passion for involving children in nutrition and vegetable gardening has turned full circle. Whole Foods in its latest program inpsired by Muhammad Yunus has launched wholekidsfoundation. Watch out for the campaig bto introduce salds into schools lunches across the usa with the tagline children who help to grow greens, eat greens. Just as it did not harm for every grameen bank outlet to have a vegetable garden, why not every scools in the USA or wherever childern are either hngry or overfed with junk foods.</p>
<p></p> Paulo Freire, Montessori, (Ga…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-20:6339278:Comment:204002014-09-20T11:51:32.320Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Paulo Freire, Montessori, (Gandhi, Mandela)</p>
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<p>Editors note: we dont know the history of educational pedagogy well enough to call who contributed what but observation of the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=wise+bangladesh+fazle+OR+brac&oq=wise+bangladesh+fazle+OR+brac&gs_l=hp.12...4336.16014.0.18401.30.30.0.0.0.0.102.2350.28j2.30.0....0...1c.1.53.hp..12.18.1458.0.hl60VSEELoU" target="_blank">primary village schooling systems in…</a></p>
<p>Paulo Freire, Montessori, (Gandhi, Mandela)</p>
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<p>Editors note: we dont know the history of educational pedagogy well enough to call who contributed what but observation of the <a href="https://www.google.com/search?site=&source=hp&q=wise+bangladesh+fazle+OR+brac&oq=wise+bangladesh+fazle+OR+brac&gs_l=hp.12...4336.16014.0.18401.30.30.0.0.0.0.102.2350.28j2.30.0....0...1c.1.53.hp..12.18.1458.0.hl60VSEELoU" target="_blank">primary village schooling systems in bangladesh</a> suggests the need to celebrate such curious findings as:</p>
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<p>1 when a teacher is free to learn -let alone when a bank manager trains up a whole community's empowerment to end poverty - that changes everything. The most happy changes osmose through the family into what it is possible for children to action learn. Contrast this with sadly over-examined cultures which condition teachers in ways that they ultimately don't see how narrow their mindset has become nor understand what monopoly of thought they are propogating</p>
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<p>2 because <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB6bVX7Fesw" target="_blank">Friere's pivotal idea</a> is : dont trust yourself to be valuable in teaching a person different from you (notably poorest families) unless you live in that person's position- a teaching culture valuing Freire is always open both to deeper contextual learning and to questioning where an examiner's bias <span>towards one correct answer </span> spins over-standardised (command-and-control) views of the world; over-standardised mindsets are an enemy of innovation at the slowest moving of times; when as <a href="http://bracnet.ning.com/xn/detail/4777346:Comment:8110" target="_blank">the net generation</a> is faced with faster change than ever before, over-standardisation spirals as the greatest <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9nL_a0K97I" target="_blank">risk to sustainability of all of us</a>; it is also why the bottom-up school of economics with its Keynsian gravitational goals of ending poverty is about totally different system designs for what futures people are freed to enjoy than macroeconomist hire by the biggest politicians or the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world" target="_blank">85 richest people</a> in the world</p>
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<p>3 if we the peoples are to thrive in a 21st c democratic and increasingly borderless planet, then we should compare 2 opposite value-driven curricula on every dynamic that they rule over as being economic or social. At the moment the west's richest nations are drowning in type 1 curricula of standardised answers- the celebration of the missing curricula needs to be given at least <a href="http://openlearningcampus.com" target="_blank">half of the space</a> on the new open education platforms such as khan and this at coursera who design courses on-demand ,the very opposite of the teaching <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lxA-1ckVhTcWvd3YokjGlai3dbgMlYadePAuOtG87zU/edit" target="_blank">endgame of closed ceritification</a></p>
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<p>4 those who claim to value peacemaking more than any other eladership skill really should study how both gandhi and mandela knew that chnaging education systems was necessary before non-violent social transformations could be celebrated- this gandhi designed with montessori with some motivational support from Albert Einstein; the stories that can still be found out of south africa (gandhi's second homeland as well as mandela's first) , india and bangladesh are why south eastern millennials have more innovation to linkin now than anyone (<a href="http://valuetrue.com" target="_blank">valuetrue</a> economists should value this as a good thing because in terms of the millennial population they are also the vast number of producers)</p> Exercise discuss what opportu…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-20:6339278:Comment:205382014-09-20T10:46:24.690Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Exercise discuss what opportunities and threats compound around <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:20296" target="_self">Grameen Microcredit</a> system as the in the human race's united goal to end poverty</p>
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<p>Safest and most inspiring banking system for empowering pre-digital <a href="http://womenuni.com" target="_blank">women</a> networking to…</p>
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<p>Exercise discuss what opportunities and threats compound around <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:20296" target="_self">Grameen Microcredit</a> system as the in the human race's united goal to end poverty</p>
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<p>Safest and most inspiring banking system for empowering pre-digital <a href="http://womenuni.com" target="_blank">women</a> networking to end poverty and build community</p>
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<p>Became laboratory for ownership by the poorest of hundreds of microfranchise. We define a franchise as a financially sustainable model of how a team delivers a local service that once perfected can be replicated across communities. However unlike a service macrofranchise like Mcdonalds that sucks profit out of each community every quarter, a microfranchise is designed so that the value produced wholly or mainly stays with the workers and in the community served</p>
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<p>Ask about such exportation details as:</p>
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<p>Motivation and reach of barefoot bankers? Grameen was demanding unique dedication to service -one connected with energising communal pride and personal passion spending a bank manager's life on building the rural nation.. Also serving 3600 families weekly on foot worked most economically in Bangladesh's peculiarly densely populated "rural" conditions</p>
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<p> Whether national regulation permit such a savings structure?: the truth is that the new nation's government had so little resources that early leaders of the country were happy to assign the responsibility for rural development to hi-trust entrepreneurs and young socially minded activists; bangladesh's first and pre-digital quarter of a century was to see a unique model of micor-privatisation - one that became integral to the whole economy and life-critical innovation</p>
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<p>How adaptable is the <i>16 decision culture</i>;? Note it was designed round mediating the specific freedom wants voiced by Bangaldesh women villagers who had been chained as an underclass; it also depended on a great local village schooling system being replicated - something that Grameen relied on Bangladesh's other extraordinary grassroots empowerment network BRAC to scale</p>
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<tr><td width="695" colspan="2" valign="top"><p>How bridgeable is the Grameen model to digital age? Note first that the whole system depended on the intense manual inputs of the banking staff. While Grameen's goals (eg invest in productivity never trap in debt) are a world class paradigm for any Keynsian economist to design with, transforming to digital dynamics would require a lot of investment. While the fame that Grameen attracted around the world would make this possible for Yunus in Bangladesh, the very long-term leanness of the model (which he was later to brand as Yunus Social Business" could make it harder for other less famous local attempts to bridge digital with the purity of trust of the Grameen model</p>
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<p>Grameen, <a href="http://valuetrue.com" target="_blank">valued wholly</a>, as an open source knowledge system needed to be celebrated as the net generation's antidote to so many risks of big banking. It could have been part of financial literacy and goals-humanity-mosts-invest in every school that valued the future of developing children to grow up in the early 21st C networked, collaborative and borderless world. But those millennium-goals summit hosts who from 1996 were to accelerate the globally lobby for yunus to get presidential and nobel prizes as most trusted banker of women and next generation never focused on mediating such a gamechanging educational curriculum -more at <a href="http://microcredit.tv" target="_blank">microcredit.tv</a> If Grameen had stuck to its roots as an educational platform it could have become worldwide youths most valued partnership brand as the 21st C came of age. Understanding the role if Dr Yunus as linking in thousands of concept that most excite youth can no longer involve the same microfranchise cataloguing compass as most valued educational reality-maker. More at the <a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/forum/topics/the-gg-book-of-world-record-job-creators" target="_self">GG world record book of job creation</a></p>
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Help with <a href="http://youtube.com/user/socialactions" target="_blank">social actions</a> debriefings of more opportunity and threat exercises at <a href="http://yunusuni.com" target="_blank">YunusUni.com</a> Y1 WHAT TO KNOW FIRST ABOUT M…tag:normanmacrae.ning.com,2014-09-19:6339278:Comment:202962014-09-19T21:17:17.314Zchris macraehttps://normanmacrae.ning.com/profile/s0neqm9lsoui
<p>Y1 WHAT TO KNOW FIRST ABOUT MODEL OF GRAMEEN MICROCREDIT</p>
<p>Starting in 1976 it took 7 years to develop this model (constitutionally confirmed in the Grameen Bank National Ordinance of 1983) during the first 10 years of the birth of Bangladesh as a new 100 million peopled nation- with the least resources of any in modern time. In particular, the vast majority lived in villages meaning spaces with no electricity, no running water, no phones or other forms of connecting eg…</p>
<p>Y1 WHAT TO KNOW FIRST ABOUT MODEL OF GRAMEEN MICROCREDIT</p>
<p>Starting in 1976 it took 7 years to develop this model (constitutionally confirmed in the Grameen Bank National Ordinance of 1983) during the first 10 years of the birth of Bangladesh as a new 100 million peopled nation- with the least resources of any in modern time. In particular, the vast majority lived in villages meaning spaces with no electricity, no running water, no phones or other forms of connecting eg roads</p>
<p>SURVIVAL LETTING ALONE BANKING FOR THE POOREST WOMEN ON EARTH</p>
<p>The problem how to job train -and fully support - village mothers who had never handled money and were culturally chained to staying within a few yards of a village hut in which they were expected to nurture typically 5 to 10 children. So the best way of valuing the original grameen microcrediit model is as mothers training college, where she took out a student loan but where grameen guaranteed her a local market (60 peers per center) provided she worked hard. At the same time she was asked to start saving - and the bonus for completing such activity for about a year was to become a co-shareholder of the whole bank. This ownership as well as customer service commitment made Grameen far more than a training network and far more than a bank. During the 7 years of development, thousands of village mothers had been surveyed on what they would wish to invest in with positive income generation. Their main concerns were childrens health and education -and a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbfWCUsyW3Y&list=PL8F49AC15BFCBDDD3" target="_blank">charter of 16 decisions</a> was drawn up which was chanted out at every weekly meeting. Every member of this social network was to build a pit latrine for hygiene. Every member committed to send all children to primary school and so on. As well as training relevant to each mother's income generation, communal health learning was prioritised around such infant life-savers as oral rehydration and the mothers' own health.</p>
<p>Sequence of early innovations - see also <a href="http://grameen.tv" target="_blank">grameen.tv</a></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">. This also explains why the bank's first non-training and non-financial service was selling carrot seeds- most village infants in 1983 had night blindness caused by vitamin a deficiency that carrots were the most effectiive cure for. While rice is the staple crop of over 60% of the world's poorest it lacks vitmain a.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">Thus each banking centre's safe space for the 60 villagers to meet started to become attached to a vegetable garden. In the grameen model, the branch bank manager or one of 2 assistants visit each centre every week.So these barefoot bankers were responsible for continuing to ensure each hard working mother;s market exchange for her service. Each bank branch was responsible for 60 centres a week - tha;ts a total of 3600 families depending on their mothers race to end poverty. One of the most remarkable talents of Dr Yunus was to motivate young graduates to go and live in the village as a barefoot banker</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 13px;">If we pause here, we can make a list of reasons why Grameen has inspired so many partial replications in other countries but as far as I can find no total replication. Ultimately which of these extensions sustain any good depends much more on assessing whether the motivation was to train a mother up and guarantee her a market for her job than any financial service skills bankers might ordinarily pride themselves in </span></p>
<p><a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:20640">Y11 Savings Groups & Puddle</a></p>
<a href="http://normanmacrae.ning.com/xn/detail/6339278:Comment:20641">Y12 Kiva and Kiva (Zip)</a>