Case Study on Improving Access to Formal Microfinance Institutions Sample Clauses

Case Study on Improving Access to Formal Microfinance Institutions. With Support from ChildFund International USA, Africa Region conducted a Case study of WSN program on ‘Improving Access to Formal Microfinance Institutions for HIV- & AIDS-Affected Vulnerable Households’. The study was conducted by the HIV & AIDS and Micro enterprise Development Working Group of The SEEP Network. The study recommended the introduction of Village Savings and Loan Associations where formal MFI accessibility was very limited for the lower economic level caregivers who could not meet the lending requirements for the microfinance institution with opportunities for graduating to MFIs once community based organizations improved their governance and management.
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  • Site Access Dell requires the right to access the APEX System in a timely way and as provided in the Service Offering Description to provide the Support Services. Failure to ensure that Customer provides Dell with timely access to a Site will relieve Dell of the Support Services obligations and Dell may also, at Dell’s discretion, suspend the APEX Service.

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  • Completion of Concrete Pours and Emergency Work (a) Except as provided in this sub-clause an Employee shall nor work or be required to work in the rain. (b) Employees shall not be required to start a concrete pour in Inclement Weather. (c) Where a concrete pour has been commenced prior to the commencement of a period of Inclement Weather Employees may be required to complete such concrete pour to a practical stage and for such work shall be paid at the rate of double time calculated to the next hour, and in the case of wet weather shall be provided with adequate wet weather gear. (d) If an Employee’s clothes become wet as a result of working in the rain during a concrete pour the Employee shall, unless the Employee has a change of dry working clothes available, be allowed to go home without loss of pay. (e) The provisions of clauses 32.7(c) and 32.7(d) hereof shall also apply in the case of emergency work where the Employees concerned and their delegates agree that the work is of an emergency nature and can start and/or proceed.

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