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Training & Capacity Building |
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| Training of Trainers (ToT) |
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EDA is significantly involved in training the trainers for delivering microfinance courses. This is part of EDA's effort to build a strong network of capacity building institutions to build and support the microfinance sector across nations. EDA has undertaken ToTs in India, Myanmar, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
EDA is CGAP's Global ToT Partner and regularly undertakes ToTs for CGAP |
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| Capacity Building Needs Assessment |
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Capacity Building Needs Assessment (CBNA) involves evaluation of operating systems and human resources of a microfinance institution. This process results in the identification of strengths and weaknesses. This step is followed by prioritisation of areas that need capacity building. CBNA Report, the key deliverable, details areas of improvement across MFI operations and recommends the appropriate media for capacity building.
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Methodology
The assessment involves evaluation of MFI's abilities in relation to the following operating aspects.
Setting up basic operating systems
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Loan appraisal, documentation and record keeping |
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Accounting |
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Cash and financial planning (especially budgetary planning) |
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Portfolio management - disbursal, collections, tracking of overdues and diversification |
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Management information systems |
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Internal control and audit |
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Members and group promotion and development |
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Fund mobilization |
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Leadership and strategic planning |
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Scalability |
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Course Methodologies - Adult Education Orientation |
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Pedagogy and tools
EDA courses incorporate tested approaches appropriate for adult education. Training sessions are designed to provide structured opportunities to participants to apply and practice new techniques and internalise new attitudes. The approach is interactive with extensive use of group discussions and flip charts supported by overheads and handouts. Different techniques such as case studies, role-plays, debates and group exercises provide variety and facilitate experiential and shared learning.
The Approach
This approach to learning is consistent with the mature learner's motivations and perspective. It makes use of the experiential learning cycle. The experiential approach is learner-centric and allows the individual participants to manage and share responsibility for their learning with their teachers. The training strategy provides opportunities for a person to engage in an activity, review this activity critically, draw some useful insights from the analysis, and apply the result in a practical situation. It thereby enhances retention of newly learnt ideas and provides a strong basis for application when participants return to their working environment. This approach is consistent with the mature learner's motivations and perspective.
Size of the batch
The courses are conducted in English and participation is restricted to a maximum of twenty-five persons |
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Modes of offering |
Client Commissioned
The client selects the appropriate course/s, participants and decides the logistical arrangements for the offering (location, transportation and communication etc), which is then conducted by EDA training team on mutually agreeable dates for a lump-sum professional fee (which mainly includes the module development and trainer costs).
Open Access Offering
EDA conducts retail offerings of its courses from time to time, where participation is elicited from the organisations working in the area of microfinance and microenterprise. A fixed course fee is charged per participant, which covers module development, trainer costs, lodging & boarding and other logistical incidentals.
The course announcement is circulated by e-mail/fax/postal correspondence through an exhaustively compiled client database in advance. It is being planned that in near future, newsflashes on the EDA website would be deployed to inform our partners of the planned retail offerings and keep them constantly updated |
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| Affiliations |
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CGAP EDA Partnership
EDA is CGAP's regional partner for delivery of microfinance trainings to MFI teams and trainers at capacity building institutions
Cambodia Institute of Banking EDA Partnership
EDA is a partner of Cambodia Institute of Banking, a consortium of banks, for delivery of financial and operational management trainings to banks and microfinance institutions |
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| New Efforts |
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Establishment of a Capacity Building Organisation in Bangladesh
EDA along with CARE Bangladesh has established Institutional Development Services Ltd, Bangladesh (IDSL) which provides capacity building/training services to the microfinance and micro-enterprise sector s . Services are targeted towards management and staff of microfinance institutions, organisations implementing micro-enterprise programmes and the teams at multi-lateral and bi-lateral organisations and NGOs supporting microfinance and micro-enterprise programmes.
Imp-Act initiative on Social Performance Management
EDA is associated with the Imp-Act initiative for developing a training course and methodology for MFIs to develop their own systems to monitor and manage their social performance. The programme is being jointly developed in association with the Institute of Development Studies and University of Sussex , UK |
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| List of Training & Capacity Building Clients |
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| Donor Agencies |
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CARE, India and Bangladesh |
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Swiss Development Corporation (SDC) |
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United Nations Office of Project Services (UNOPS) |
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| Apex Lending Institutions |
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Friends of Women's World Banking (FWWB) |
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Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) |
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National Bank of Ethiopia |
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| Lead Micro Finance Institutions |
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BASIX |
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CARD, Philippines |
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CASHPOR, India |
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Shepherd , India |
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South Indian Federation of Fishermen's Societies (SIFFS), India |
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SEWA Bharat , India |
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Buro Tangail , Bangladesh |
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PRASAC, Cambodia |
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Rangpur Dinajpur Rural Services (RDRS), Bangladesh |
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| Capacity Building Institutions & Networks |
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APMAS |
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Sa-Dhan |
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Centre for Micro Finance , Nepal |
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Cambodia Institute of Banking |
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Management Development Centre (MDC), Bangladesh |
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Pakistan Microfinance Network (PMN) |
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SANMFI |
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| List of Training Countries |
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Bangladesh |
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Cambodia |
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Ethiopia |
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India |
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Myanmar |
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Nepal |
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| List of Participant Countries |
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Bangladesh |
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Cambodia |
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Ethiopia |
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India |
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Myanmar |
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Nepal |
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Pakistan |
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Papua New Guinea |
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