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CAPACITY BUILDING

Download Capacity Building of MFIs in India - The FWWB Perspective 

FWWB’s Capacity Building Programme has evolved in response to the needs of its partner organizations and is designed to build the capacity of women at the grassroot level to own and manage Institutions and also to build the capacity of the promoters to help them manage the activity of providing financial services efficiently, to the poor.
The mission of the Capacity Building Programme of FWWB is,

To contribute towards this Mission, the Capacity Building team has developed suitable Training modules for its different Partner Organizations

Training and Workshops

FWWB’s Capacity building focuses on two major areas,

Trainings conducted by FWWB (SHG Training):
To strengthen self-governance of poor women and to enhance the capacity of the SHG’s to help them function effectively.

Training for FWWB’s Partner Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) by FWWB (Credit Management Training):
To build the capacity of MFI’s to reach self-sustainable level which can help them in managing their micro finance activities in an effective way and reach to a larger number of poor women. more effectively. Here the MFIs who are intermediaries are trained in efficient management of financial services to the poor.

Workshops:

Workshops also form an important part of the capacity building programme where not only the partner organisations but also sometimes the women at the grass root level get a much wider platform to understand and interact and share their experiences and learn from each other. They can discuss and debate on issues related to the sector and this also helps in exploring the potential in the sector.

Capacity Building

Technical Assistance Visits

Technical Assistance Visits (TAV’s) form part of FWWB’s long-term strategy of institution building. The focus is on interaction with partner institutions on a one-to-one basis. These visits are organised and conducted on a continuous basis and help in building capacities of organisations in areas that are technical, including that of their operational aspects. Apart from actual ranking of an institution within particular partner categories, these visits also provide comprehensive feedback to FWWB on the overall financial and technical support provided by it.
TAV’s are essentially need based interventions and function with the specific objective of streamlining operations and helping the partner organisations to graduate through the institution building process i.e. from General Partner (GP) category to the Institutional Development Partner (IDP) category and finally to the financially sustainable Big Partner (BP) category.
Depending on the priorities, the effectiveness of TAVs varies from institution to institution. In many cases, these are restricted to holistic assessment of operations, streamlining of field operations and/or restructuring of major office functions. The time span needed for an institution to implement changes depends on its age and size.

Capacity Building

Exposure Visits

Exposure visits are one of the several capacity building inputs provided by FWWB to its partner organisations. The main objective of FWWB’s exposure visits is ‘learning by other’s experiences.’ The genesis of exposure visits originates from case based teaching methodology where instead of hypothetical situations, it is real life situations that form the basis of learning. This methodology, because of its practical orientation, has found acceptance across the globe and in the present scenario has been embraced by B-schools of the world.
Taking cue from the above, FWWB started organising exposure visits for the partner organisations. These visits give the partners a mutual learning opportunity from existing vast pools of accumulated knowledge of leading national and international micro finance institutions of the world like ASA and Shakti in Bangladesh and Jan Shakti in Sri Lanka etc. and they share their own experiences as well.

The visiting partners get to study the systems and procedures followed in the host organisation and also interact closely with the organisations top management, middle and lower level staff. In the past the Exposure visits played a vital role in shaping the perspective of the organisation towards micro finance in general and their own growth plans in specific. They gave new direction in systemising the procedure and processes being practiced in the organisation.