The Project Human Development in Focus is a research project that will generate two documentaries about:
Microfinance: what is it, how it works and what are the main innovations in the sector
What promotes human development from clients of microfinance institutions’ point of view.
The proposal of one documentary is to give voice and visibility to clients from microcredit institutions, credit agents and other interviewed citizens so that they may express their reflections over human development; and we then wish their ideas and conclusions influence both their own society and other diverse contexts.
We intend to think over the human development and how the philosophy,
methodology and strategy of microcredit institutions relate in
order to pluck up efforts to a change in direction of a new developmental
paradigm. We will inquire over what social, economical, political
and spiritual values contribute to this change. How could these
elements be brought into actions and strategies which, put together,
would promote human development and a change in paradigm?
Our team is visiting microfinance institutions in many countries.
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By November, 2009, 13 microfinance institutions and 4 second floor institutions in 8 countries were already filmed by the Human Development in Focus team:
The next institutions to be filmed will be in India and in Bangladesh.
During the last week of October, our team was in Nepal, filming the work developed by CSD - Center for Self-Help Development - in this country. One of the most interesting aspects addressed either by the directors as by the customers was how microcredit 100% orientated for women can contribute for their empowerment, increasing their autonomy and respect in a culture in which they are normally submitted to the husband.
Since April 2009 our team has been visiting microfinance institutions in many countries, interviewing CEOs, directors, managers, loan officers, customers and specialist.
We have already visited institutions in Brazil, Morocco, Kyrgyzstan, England, Russia, Ukraine, China, Vietnam and Indonesia.
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