Message-ID: <19960207230955925.AAA157@[200.239.60.103]> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 23:09:57 +0000 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: Re: Micro credit in Brazil To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
>Hello Joaquim,
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>I found your e-mail address on the Web pages. I am a member of RESULTS
>Canada and am currently taking a class in Latin American Studies.
>Presently I am trying to find any information on microcredit lending
>programs (for microenterprise) in Brazil. Would you know by any chance
>where I could find such research information?
>I appreciate any of your help in the matter
>Thank you, Fred Kunzle
Dear Fred,
Did you visit our home page? http://webwrite.com/partners.bsb-dc Anyway, I'd like to inform you that you should look for FENAPE (Federacao Nacional de Apoio a Pequenas Empresas - National Federal for Small Enterprise Support). The system FENAPE also includes the CEAPEs (Center for Small Enterprise Support), working in each state (not all) there are a CEAPE, the local organization which really lends to the local poor... I am not sure, but I think there are 9 CEAPEs working mainly in the Brazilian poor northeast, and last year they have lent about US$ 8 millions. FENAPE is closely linked to ACCION International, D.C. USA. I will find FENAPE address (and sent it to you - but you also can contact ACCION and gert information from them). (At our page you can find ACCION's address, phones etc.).
Lately, some governments started their own micromicro credit projects. The mayor of Porto Alegre (capital of the most southern state of Brazil, Rio Grande do Sul - please, look at a map) is creating a social bank called PortoSol. Fortaleza (capital of Ceara, a state in the northeast) also is creating another. In Brasilia, the local government is developing two projects on micro loans: one through its official bank, more conventional, another through the community organization of the poor, with a strongest cultural component, Grameen influenced, local participation, groups, meetings etc., in Santa Maria (a satellite city near Brasilia). I am working in this project (more information at our Web site).
There is also the federal Government project, but this is still now just a project, that I will explain soon, when you tell me about what more do you need. Bye, J.
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