NGO Microfinance in the Tibet Autonomous Region Case Solution And Analysis, HBR Case Study Solution & Analysis of Harvard Case Studies

In 1998, Tibet Poverty Reduction Fund (TPAF), a small, a U.S. nongovernmental organization, took the initiative to provide the benefits of microfinance to poor people in rural Tibet. Based lending model pioneered Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, microfinance TPAF would make small loans to individuals and families to help them start small businesses, which, he hopes to increase their income and improve their standard of living. In consultation with the Tibetan Autonomous Region (TAR), the government, the two are quite different, but the representative of the community ed programs: agricultural villages in the southern prefecture of Lhoka and semi communities on the plateau Nakchu prefecture. TPAF has been created with a specific mission with a method to combat poverty, to demonstrate that, with some modifications to the standard models and methods that could make poverty programs work in difficult conditions of Tibet Autonomous Region. However, the Grameen model adaptation for use in TAR will be a challenge even for experienced staff TPAF author. This will be particularly true Nakchu prefecture, where the scattered population, primitive roads and livestock-based economy will require significant changes in the program is designed to make small loans to recipients who have lived and worked in close proximity. This case TPAF efforts to promote microfinance in the first Lhoka prefecture, showing how he changed the original model according to the features of its geography and its social and political structures. Then he wondered how, or even that, TPAF should continue to adapt the program to meet a lot more problems with Nakchu. HKS Case Number 1913.0 "Hide
by Guy Stuart, Robert Campbell, Anthony Saich 17 pages. Publication Date: March 14, 2008. Prod. #: HKS447-PDF-ENG