Iraqi Microfinance Targets Women
Iraq’s Ministry of State for Women’s Affairs, Ibtihal al-Zaidi, told AKnews that the Iraqi Council of Ministers agreed to allocate a proportion of small loans for women. During its recent meeting on...
View ArticleUnlikely MSME Financiers Provide Islamic Microfinance for the Poor
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. Six NGO-microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide Islamic...
View ArticleIraqi Microfinance Conference Discusses Greater Outreach to Poor
Iraq’s 12 microfinance institutions in cooperation with the USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program are holding an Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders Conference in Erbil on October 3 and...
View ArticleWomen’s Ministry Grants Bank Loans Worth 10m Dinars
AKnews reports that the Iraqi Ministry for Women’s Affairs has granted about 10m dinars’ worth of bank loans for women. Ministry spokesman Mohammed Hamza said the loans are part of the project...
View ArticleIraq Micro-Finance Forum in Erbil
The Government of Iraq in cooperation with UNDP Iraq, USAID-Tijara and the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor organised the Iraq Micro-Finance Forum in Erbil. The Forum’s key objectives were...
View ArticleUSAID Initiative Boosts Youth Employment
USAID-supported job training, apprenticeships and microfinance loans help unemployed Iraqi youth secure meaningful work. CHALLENGE. At the start of 2010 Iraq had the highest rates of unemployment in...
View ArticleUSAID Microfinance Conference in Erbil
The USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program in cooperation with Iraq’s 12 microfinance institutions and Iraqi Microfinance Network will hold an Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders...
View ArticleMicrofinance Conference Focuses on Economic & Social Advancement
From October 23 – 24, 2012, the U.S. Mission in Iraq, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and in cooperation with the Iraqi Microfinance Network, will host the Inclusive...
View ArticleIraqi Microfinance Opens 100th Branch Office
Iraq’s rapidly growing microfinance industry reached a major milestone this month when the Al-Tadhamun (TDMN) microfinance organization opened its third branch office in the Northern Province of...
View ArticleUSAID Study Details Advances by Iraq’s Microfinance Industry
USAID through its Provincial Economic Growth Program, today released State of Iraq’s Microfinance Industry, a 52-page report that describes the growth and emerging trends of a microfinance industry...
View Article402nd AFSB Bringing Sustainability to Iraq
JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq - In 2007, a Soldier in Talil came up with a simple idea to foster relations between the United States military and Iraq - provide desperately needed engineering textbooks to a...
View ArticleInnovative Agriculture Loan for Farmers in Ninawa
Access to quality financial services, especially for rural small-scale farmers is a challenge anywhere in the world. USAID-Tijara microfinance institution (MFI) partner Tal’afar Economic Development...
View ArticleUSAID-TIJARA Plans Microfinance Conference
The USAID-Tijara “Putting the Poor First” microfinance symposium, a program supported by the U.S. Government, will be held November 28-30 in Erbil. The Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders’...
View ArticleIraq Microfinance Celebrates Innovative Loan Products
USAID-Tijara’s Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders’ Conference began with a pledge to provide greater financial services to people living below Iraq’s poverty line of $2.20 a day and ended with a...
View ArticleIraq to Cut Poverty From 23% to 16% by 2014
Iraqi authorities aim to decrease the percentage of poverty in the country from 23% to 16% by the year 2014, according to the Planning Ministry's Central Statistics Body on Tuesday. "The strategy to...
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MSMEs – A Prerequisite for Inclusive Economic Development
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. Recent demonstrations across the country in Sulimaniya, Kirkuk,...
View ArticleIraqi Microfinance Targets Women
Iraq's Ministry of State for Women's Affairs, Ibtihal al-Zaidi, told AKnews that the Iraqi Council of Ministers agreed to allocate a proportion of small loans for women. During its recent meeting on...
View ArticleUnlikely MSME Financiers Provide Islamic Microfinance for the Poor
By T. Keyzom Ngodup, co-founder and Executive Director at Ideas sYnergy, an Iraq based private sector development consulting company. Six NGO-microfinance institutions (MFIs) provide Islamic...
View ArticleIraqi Microfinance Conference Discusses Greater Outreach to Poor
Iraq’s 12 microfinance institutions in cooperation with the USAID-Tijara Provincial Economic Growth Program are holding an Inclusive Financial Services Stakeholders Conference in Erbil on October 3 and...
View ArticleWomen's Ministry Grants Bank Loans Worth 10m Dinars
AKnews reports that the Iraqi Ministry for Women's Affairs has granted about 10m dinars' worth of bank loans for women. Ministry spokesman Mohammed Hamza said the loans are part of the project...
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