Role of Microfinance in Disaster Risk Management

Contents: Preface. 1. Disaster Risk: Implications for Microfinacne. 2. Post-Disaster and post conflict microfinance. 3. The Role of Microfinance in Reducing Vulnerability. 4. Complementing Natural disasters management: The role of social Protection. 5. Human development network opportunities and challenges for MFOs in Disaster Situation. 6. Foreign exchange risk management practices of microfinance institutions. 7. The future of risk management in microfinance. 8. Risk management among the poor: The case of microfinancial services. 9. Evidence of microfinance’s contribution to achieving the millennium development goals. 10. Growth with quality: Balancing risks and opportunities in microfinance. 11. Empowering women through microfinance. 12. Microfinance, the path to poverty alleviation. 13. The Transformation of the microfinance sector in India. 14. Microfinance impact evaluation going down market. 15. Background on global microfinance trends. 16. Enhancing microfinance using index-based risk-transfer products. 17. To educate people regarding disaster risk management. Bibliography. Index.

As microfinance has evolved, a better understanding has of its strengths and limitations in poverty reduction, and of its potential for strengthening the risk management capacity of the poor. Field research indicates that access to microfinance services including credit, often savings, and less typically housing loans and microinsurance, increases poor households’ prospects of escaping poverty and at minimum stops them form falling further down the poverty line. Provision of microfinance services that can have a sustainable impact on clients’ well being and reduced vulnerability is not an easy endeavor, however.