TechnoServe in Ghana

World Bank

TechnoServe in Ghana

1998

World Bank

TechnoServe (TNS) is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1968 and has programs in 14 countries in Africa, Latin America and Central Europe. The Ghana program was established in 1971. TechnoServe's mission is to establish sustainable community-based enterprises that increase productivity, income and employment. It opposes food relief, subsidized inputs and grants and promotes self-help and technical assistance to rural communities. This approach involves the provision of financial and business management training in order to help these communities make sound business decisions and create and operate their own enterprises. Although TNS believed that the key to financing these small community-based enterprises was savings, eventually it became convinced that credit was also necessary. TNS therefore evolved its own financial mediation strategy by developing innovative mechanisms for micro-enterprise financing.

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accounting agricultural credit agricultural sector agricultural services best practices business management capacity building commercial banks cooperatives employment equipment financial institutions food processing food relief human resources income information systems liability marketing microfinance networks productivity rural communities savings self-help transaction costs

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Publisher

Washington, DC

Other Subjects

Loan category; Loan; Poor; E-mail address; Trust funds; Cost effectiveness; Disbursements; Rural financial services; Beneficiaries; Rural households; Sustainable microfinance institutions; Rural banks; Loan portfolios; Credit unions; Enterprise financing; Financial services; Equipment loans; Loan guarantees; Loan size; E-mail; Beneficiary; Business plans; Rural; Individual liability; Micro-finance institutions; Loan recovery; Commercial bank; Sustainable microfinance; Transaction; Rural enterprises; Recovery rate; Rural financial institutions; Interest rate; Technical assistance; Agricultural enterprises; Harvest processing; Inventory; Credit program; Loan term; Microfinance institutions; Share capital; Business decisions; Micro-finance; Commercial farmers; Commercial bank loans; Loan sizes; Microfinance institution

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Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 110http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/World BankCC BY 3.0 Unported

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Africa Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 110

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http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9897

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