Partnership Strategy Matrix Group 2

Activity Domains

(List all)

Community savings and loan groups

Training               

Diversified non-traditional loan products

Emergency Intervention

Information resource
sharing system

Distribution of micro-finance loans

Insurance for livestock

Financial services for the poor

Sustainable and profitable savings, credit, loans

Culturally appropriate

Agricultural and animal husbandry

Micro-credit, savings and loan 

Disaster rehabilitation
Other training, as appropriate

Animals

Seeds

Money

Other appropriate resources, as needed

Livestock intervention

Agricultural recovery plan

Emergency information distribution database linked to loan distributions to facilitate sharing among all partners

Actors

(List and describe)

Heifer Intnl.- Livestock and agricultural implementation and expertise, no interest living loan, training expertise

Action Aid - Advocacy, Identification of regional/local partners, partnerships, intnl promotion, scale up

Save the Children - Micro-finance expertise, global reach, nutrition, savings and loan approach, seed provision expertise

IRC- Disaster management and recovery efforts, resource mobilization, disaster training, people tracking capabilities

Process Factors

(Typically 3-5 factors)

Savings led approaches

Disaster Mitigation 

Community focused development 

Empowering local communities through village banks

Central funds for emergency relief

Disaster risk reduction though insurance for livestock and agriculture in local communities

Distributing micro-finance loans though a community lending system 

Value-Adding Mechanisms

(List and describe top 3-5)

Aggregation

Global and local networks

Scale up

Innovation 

Aggregate multiple loan products

For advocacy and information sharing

Expanding and advocating the Heifer and Save Models

Diversification of the Heifer model and Save Micro-finance and adjusting them to natural disaster situations

Impact on Service Coverage and Quality

(Describe)

• Empowering local communities with sustainable livelihoods and the power to rebuild themselves after natural disaster. 
• Ensuring continued economic stability in communities affected by natural disaster.
• A greater focus on the food crisis and needs of communities in disaster prone regions.