Client: Nathan Associates London Limited for DFID
Period: October 2019 - March 2020
Business Finance for the Poor in Bangladesh (BFP-B) has three components: a Challenge Fund, a CIB-Microfinance, and a Policy Component. The project is designed to couple social and economic objectives through a making markets work better for the poor (M4P) approach to increase access to finance for MSEs, especially those that are currently underserved by the formal financial sector. Through this study, BFP-B intends to capture experience of working with various private sector firms and regulators of the financial sector to assess the facilitation of systemic change within the financial sector.