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Microfinance investor demand rises in spite of financial crisis and decreased demands for funding
microrateMicroRate recently launched its 5th annual survey of microfinance investment vehciles (MIVs).  The survey measure the development of a relatively new category of funds and other intermediaries that mobilize investments in rich countries and channel them to microfinance institutions in the developing world. NMI, the Norwegian Microfinance Initiative, is one of the survey’s respondents.  The survey coveres 78 of the 88 MIVs currently operating within the microfinance sector, with data as of December 31, 2009. 

MicroRate 2010 MIV Survey - Report
MicroRate 2010 MIV Survey - Presentation
MicroRate 2010 MIV Survey - Summary
 
First avocado harvest has started in Tanzania

IMG_2476The first harvest at Africado has just started. Norfund invested in this plantation at the foot of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania in 2009.

 The first trees of the plantation were planted in 2007 and after three years the first fruits are ready to be picked. Every tree is expected to last for about 30 years so this is only the first of many harvests to come.

The fruit will be shipped to Europe trough a South African company. Some of the fruits are also given to local orphanages as seen on the picture.
 
Fikk lån gjennom Norfund-bank: Vant pris for oppbygging av jenteskole i Nord-Uganda
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ugandasak39 år gamle Beatrice Ayuru Byaruhanga fra Uganda ble nylig tildelt UN Trade and Development Agencys 2010 Emreptec Women in Business pris. Bakgrunnen er oppbyggingen av en jenteskole i Nord-Uganda, delvis finansiert av DFCU, en kommersiell ugandisk bank finansiert av Norfund.
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