Publication Date
May 2014
30 p, ill.
This research focuses on three stakeholders: Microfinance Institutions (MFIs), Persons with Disabilities (PWD), and non-disabled clients. It attempts to highlight the following:
- Understanding of MFIs about disability, their perceptions of persons with disabilities, and their preparedness to include them as potential clients
- Concerns and apprehensions of PWD to becoming potential MFI clients
- Views of non-disabled clients on including PWD in their groups
The study investigates the knowledge and the perceptions about disability among each stakeholder group and attempts to elucidate how that impacts the ability of PWD to access microfinance services. Four microfinance institutions of different geographic areas were studied. The survey inolved 1,000 people of whom 57 were disabled.
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Keywords
Cross-cutting; accessibility; attitudinal barriers; Disability and social diversity; persons with disabilities; Inclusion; inclusion and mainstreaming; Livelihoods; career development; microfinance and microcredit; work and employment; Politics government and economics; economics; Programme/ Project; finance
