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The Kupfuma Ishungu Rural Microfinance Project, Zimbabwe

Dec 31, 2007 | by Jill Thompson

Effective AIDS program responses have opened opportunities for more economic initiatives in AIDS-impacted communities. For example, with the availability of life-extending anti-retroviral therapies, people living with HIV are able to regain and extend their productive capacity and stay involved in their enterprises and communities. Increased education and awareness campaigns have been effective in reducing stigma, which encourages community members more inclusive of HIV-affected households. Sharing information about current initiatives and sound practices in both the microenterprise industry and HIV & AIDS field should lead to a better understanding of the issues faced by households coping with this disease. Clarifying these issues and better defining potential strategies to address them will in turn lead to more effective collaboration and program design, helping catalyze strategic alliances between microenterprise development organizations and AIDS support organizations.

The purpose of The SEEP Network’ “Promising Practices” case study series is to describe a variety of microenterprise services that:

  • reach deeply into the poor socioeconomic strata of a given community and/or geographic area;
  • show the potential to reach significant scale;
  • enable clients to plan for future crises, anticipate needs for lump sums of cash, improve income flows, enhance the profitability of economic activities, and avoid selling productive assets; and
  • strive to go beyond the economic dimension of clients’ lives to address the underlying factors that contribute to the spread of HIV & AIDS (e.g., through collaboration with ASOs or educational initiatives, such as informing clients about HIV & AIDS issues in order to change their behavior and mobilize community action).

The Kupfuma Ishungu Rural Microfinance Project (KI-RMFP) is a four-year program, designed to build the capacity of communities to mobilize and manage savings that can then be used to grant loans to meet the production, consumption, and social needs of vulnerable members (mainly women) of the communities. KIRMFP’s area of operation encompasses the Zvishavane, Mberengwa and Shurugwi districts of the Midlands and Masvingo provinces of Zimbabwe.

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