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Microcredit

CMES has organized a credit scheme for financing income generating activities of the adolescent girls and other disadvantaged youth. This microcredit scheme is managed by a dedicated central and field staff within CMES Microcredit Wing. CMES has been the pioneer in this respect by giving adolescents as well as young adults access to credit, irrespective of the marital status of the women. CMES’s  credit programme is implemented and expanded mostly with the fund borrowed from PKSF. 

The management & organization 
The microcredit wing is managed by the Deputy Project Coordinator (Microcredit) and programme is implemented the credit staffs at the service centre, along with the field credit staffs including Regional Manager, Credit Manager, Credit Officers and other credit staff. All have an intensive training on the credit system received at CMES. Some of the staffs also have external training including training provided by PKSF. In every Unit, these trained staff members form a team to manage the loans within the Programme. The loan proposals are received, studied and later are recommended to the Regional manager by the team and then Regional Manager send the suitable proposals to the Service Centre. In the regular meetings of the Loan Review Committee, then proposals are approved and the loans are duly disbursed. The credit staff at the field conducts the repayment and monitoring activities, and keeps close contact with the ongoing empowerment programme for the loanees. 
Some statistics about microcredit programme
Cumulative Loan Information (in Bangladesh Taka) 
Up to 31 December 2013


 Total
Participants

Present
Loanees

Cumulative
Loanees

Total
Realization

Total
Disbursement

Total
Outstanding

26014

18554

155637

135,99,03955

148,72,36,200

   12,73,32,245

1 US$ ≈78 Taka

Loans and corresponding activities

The size of each loan is between Tk. 3000 and Tk.29, 000. The loans are repayable in 46 weekly installments. In the management of the loans, an emphasis is given on whether the young loan holder herself rather than her parents are in control of the business and with the income. The credit scheme is designed as a capacity building training in financial activities, leading to an empowering financial self-reliance through cash income of adolescents and youth.

 


So far, members have taken loans for the following activities:

Cow rearing
 
Garments
 
Goat rearing and poultry

Paddy husking and Paddy business

 

General Stores

 

Grocery shops

Handicraft

 

Betel leaf cultivation

 

Fishing net weaving

Hawkers business

 

Sweetmeat business

 

Puffed rice

Tea stalls

 

Nursery

 

Cloth trading

Managing Rickshaw

 

Rickshaw and Cycle garage

 

Wheat husking

Wheat and Rice business

 

Candy Making

 

Fish culture

Laundry

 

Stationary

 

Confectionery

Photography

 

Pharmacy

 

Home Gardening

Food processing

 

Beauty parlour

 

Shoe stores

Mini flour Mills

 

Vermi-compost

 

 

CMES has Micro Enterprise loan programme. The size of each loan is between Tk. 30,000/- to 3,00,000/- through these more experienced young people are going for bigger efforts in income generating activities.

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