Small business

Verifiable indicators
Overall development objective:
- The number of new institutions;
- An increase in lending by existing institutions to new customers in new areas; 
- Indicators that both of these will be profitable.
Immediate objective:
- New areas covered over time;
- Level of penetration in relation to potential.
Outputs:
- Numbers of new staff trained or existing staff retrained;
- Numbers of new branches established;
- Numbers of savings and credit groups formed.  
Activities:
- Establishment of selection criteria for NGOs to be supported;
- Development of a tendering document;
- Interview processes with potential candidates;
- Manuals for training programmes prepared;
- Staff of all selected NGOs and banks which have  received 5 days training;
- Office of promotion established and equipped with web site, brochures and point of sale materials.