Our Success Stories
85+ MFIs impacting livelihoods of rural farmers through our model and strategy!
Spread across 25 districts we have successfully integrated Phase I strategies in 85 Small Farmers Cooperatives. Phase II is being integrated now in 25 of these rurral coops. In addition to these particular cooperatives, 2 Grmeen model MFIs, 3 SACCOs and 3 WoDev Coops have successfully completed pilot of Phase I. Now in 2011, in addition to reaching 150 mark for Small Famers Cooperatives, we will scale up to 100 more non Small Farmers MFIs. By the end of 2011, we will have 250 MFIs that would have completely integrated Phase I while majority would have integrated Phase II as well.
SMS based access to agro price informarmation from the Green Triangle
Now, using short code 3399, users can now request daily agro based product price and get its access right on the mobile set. This service is first of its kind in the country targeted for rural farmers and agro collection centers. With the information on hand, contractors cannot exploit the ignorance that existed before. The agro price information is also made available in the website (go to Services page).
18+ eContent Partners
Magnus has successfully partnered with more than 18 I/NGOs and government agencies for eContent identification, collection, contexualization and digitization. The intervention areas are: 1) Agriculture; 2) Women Empowerment; 3) Employmnet; and 4) Education. Ministry of Information and Communication is Magnus' PPP partner in this initiative. Its objective is to educate all sectors in the need to archive digital content and make it accessible to create knowledge base in the country.
Organic Coffee Market Linkage
For last two years, organic coffee grown by SFC members have been provided with international market linkage. Othewise inaccessible, Magnus also provides transportation, training on coffee pulping and design expertise for pulping machine. The rate of coffee beans (either pulped or green) is better than any local buyers and the transportation cost is covered. By doing this, now small growers have partner that provides market that is reliable, longterm and that actually assist them in growing better coffee. The coffee sold so far sold to European buyers are from Dhading, Lamjung and Argakhanchi.
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CGAP conducts a two-day virtual Webinar on MFIs, their ICT needs and service providers. The webinar is part of the workshop series that held in US, Africa and India. In the two-day Webinar, there are some popular topics than others. The Webinar is being held during July 8th and 9th, 2010. Read More »
Magnus Consulting Group Pvt. Ltd. had won the bidding to develop MF banking software for Sana Kisan Bikash Bank Limited (SKBBL), also known as Small Farmer Development Bank. Read More »
Mr. Tikajit Rai writes for MicroFinance Insight, a bimonthly international magazine, a US based MFI knowledge base company. This agreement was reached at recent MasterCard, Grameen Foundation and CGAP funded workshop series that was held in Hyderabad in April, 2010. Read More »
Magnus conducted second follow up coffee (wet) processing for the second year at Dhading district for Chayanpur, Maidi, Jiwanpur and Jamrung VDCs. Read More »
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