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Micro-finance and disaster risk reduction : proceedings / [edited by] P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti and Mihir R. Bhat.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi : National Institute of Disaster Management in association with Knowledge World, ©2006.Description: xiv, 225 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 8187966548
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 332.0954 23 In61
Contents:
Introduction / P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti -- Summary of workshop proceedings / Mihir Bhat -- Financial services for disaster risk management for the poor / Daniel Kull -- Micro-insurance: making insurance work for the poor / Dirk Reinhard -- Micro-finance for tsunami recovery: experience of NABARD / Sukhbir Singh -- Rashtrya Mahila Kosh as apex service provider / Sneh Lata Kumur -- Why sanghamithra is different / Aloysius P. Fernandez -- Kalanjiam model of DHAN foundation / J. Saravanan -- Swayam programme in Andaman & Nicobar islands / Manu Gupta and Guillaume Mellot -- SEWA jeevika experience / Reema Nanavaty and Trushna Patel -- Making micro-finance work for the victims of the tsunami / R. Devaprakash -- Micro-finance services for disaster risk management: case study of Bangladesh floods, 1998 / Krishna S. Vatsa -- Experience from Philippines / Maria Concepcion Hina- Antonio -- Transferring risk through micro-insurance: a case study of GSDMA / G.J. Pandya and Mehul Pandya -- Invest to prevent disaster: potential benefits and limitations of micro-insurance as a risk transfer mechanism for developing countries / Reinhard Mechler and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer.
Summary: Contributed articles presented at the Workshop. Substantial evidence is available from across the globe that micro-finance products and services have the potential to empower the poor in acquiring skills, confidence and capacity to undertake activities that can significantly lift them above the poverty line. There is also evidence that micro-credit groups of the poor have done better in coping with natural disasters although disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004 badly crippled their activities. In this critical phase of recovery, micro-finance assumes even greater importance in supplementing other efforts for livelihood restoration and sustainable development.
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Introduction / P.G. Dhar Chakrabarti --
Summary of workshop proceedings / Mihir Bhat --
Financial services for disaster risk management for the poor / Daniel Kull --
Micro-insurance: making insurance work for the poor / Dirk Reinhard --
Micro-finance for tsunami recovery: experience of NABARD / Sukhbir Singh --
Rashtrya Mahila Kosh as apex service provider / Sneh Lata Kumur --
Why sanghamithra is different / Aloysius P. Fernandez --
Kalanjiam model of DHAN foundation / J. Saravanan --
Swayam programme in Andaman & Nicobar islands / Manu Gupta and Guillaume Mellot --
SEWA jeevika experience / Reema Nanavaty and Trushna Patel --
Making micro-finance work for the victims of the tsunami / R. Devaprakash --
Micro-finance services for disaster risk management: case study of Bangladesh floods, 1998 / Krishna S. Vatsa --
Experience from Philippines / Maria Concepcion Hina- Antonio --
Transferring risk through micro-insurance: a case study of GSDMA / G.J. Pandya and Mehul Pandya --
Invest to prevent disaster: potential benefits and limitations of micro-insurance as a risk transfer mechanism for developing countries / Reinhard Mechler and Joanne Linnerooth-Bayer.

Contributed articles presented at the Workshop.
Substantial evidence is available from across the globe that micro-finance products and services have the potential to empower the poor in acquiring skills, confidence and capacity to undertake activities that can significantly lift them above the poverty line. There is also evidence that micro-credit groups of the poor have done better in coping with natural disasters although disasters like the Indian Ocean Tsunami of December 2004 badly crippled their activities. In this critical phase of recovery, micro-finance assumes even greater importance in supplementing other efforts for livelihood restoration and sustainable development.

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