Boosting Employment through Small Enterprise Development (EMP/SEED): Social finance

October 2009 

• Women’s Entrepreneurship Development Capacity Building Guide - [pdf 506 KB]
  26 October 2009 - A training tool for improving the skills of staff in Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) support institutions and projects, enabling them to provide more effective services. (Book)
• Building Women Entrepreneurs’ Associations - [pdf 305 KB]
  26 October 2009 - A training tool designed to build the capacity of WEAs in running and improving their associations. (Book)
• VILLAGE BANKING IN LAO PDR - [pdf 163 KB]
  26 October 2009 - This guide elaborates on how to fill in and use the ledger. As explained in Chapter 7 of the handbook, the ledger is used to show expenditure and income by the type of item (e.g. membership fees, loans, or interest). (Book)
• VILLAGE BANKING IN LAO PDR Handbook for Village Bank Management Committees and Support Organizations - [pdf 1548 KB]
  26 October 2009 - The main objective of this handbook is to help improve management capacity at the village level and contribute to the strengthening of provision of support to village banks. As such, it is primarily designed for use by support organizations and village bank management committees. (Book)

March 2005 

• Nepal and Pakistan - Micro-finance and microenterprise development: Their contribution to the economic empowerment of women - [pdf 540 KB]
  01 March 2005 - SEED Working Paper No. 69 (Working paper)