A uk aID FUNDED facility to IMPROVE CREDIT WORTHINESS OF SMALL BUSINESS
BFP-B project is working with the Microcredit Regulatory Authority (MRA) to establish a Microfinance Credit Information Bureau (MF-CIB). The aim of this is to improve the credit worthiness of small businesses in order to reduce the cost for financial institutions to invest in them. The MF-CIB will generate approximately 30,000 credit reports for microfinance borrowers by the end of its first year of operation, encompassing a large number of women.
OUR WORK
Enhancing The Credit Worthiness of small businesses
Improving policy and regulatory environment
Triggering Private sector Investments
Impact
1.4M
Small Enterprises RECEIVING IMPROVED FINANCIAL SERVICES
£175M
Investment and Financing
£75M
Volume of savings mobilised
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Rabeya Yasmin is the Senior Advisor and Lead, Microfinance Credit Information Bureau. She has over 25 years’ experience in policy, strategy and implementation of poverty reduction programmes in Bangladesh and across Asia, Africa and Caribbean belt. She served in BRAC for 19 years. Rabeya was also Director of DFID-supported BRAC’s flagship graduation programme for the extreme poor called “Targeting the Ultra Poor”. From 2015-2016, Rabeya worked with the Char Livelihoods Programme (CLP) in Bangladesh as the Director of Partnerships, Policy and Governance. CLP was a DFID and DFAT funded programme managed by Maxwell Stamp PLC London. Between 2014 and 2017, Rabeya worked in short-term consultancy assignments with Maxwell Stamp PLC, Uplift (USA), Save the Children (UK/Bangladesh), Opportunity International (Australia), World Food Programme Bangladesh and World Vision Bangladesh. Rabeya has an MSS in Political science from University of Dhaka, MA in Poverty and Development from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK.
