Zainab Saeed on Microfinance
Description
Zainab Saeed is the Chief Strategy Officer of Kashf Foundation, which is one of Pakistan's leading specialised microfinance institutions which aims to economically mainstream and empower women in Pakistan by demonstrating that there is a business case for women's entrepreneurs.
Time Stamps:
00:41 Intro
02:16 Dark Side of Micro Finance, IPO & Mission Drift
03:28 Unregulated Micro Finance in India
04:38 Explaining Micro Finance
05:54 Grameen Bank’s Success and Dr. Yunus’ Role
06:45 Social Collateral lending Model & Committee
08:35 Micro Finance Loans
12:26 Kashf’s Appraisal Methodology & Loan Utilisation Checks
15:33 How a Micro Finance Institution Grows
16:13 Kashf’s success
20:57 Why a Mission is important
21:24 Indian Government’s Regulations that effected Micro Finance
23:42 Why Micro Finance is Expensive
25:05 Alternative Delivery Channel
27:21 Interest Rates in Micro Finance
29:27 Equal Monthly Instalments & Consumptive Loans
30:37 Unofficial Loan Sharks
34:14 How Kashf values Customers
36:07 Social Business & NGO
40:45 Why Micro Finance over other things
46:02 Inflation’s effect on Micro Finance
50:07 How Kashf started, How it’s going and Zainab’s Journey
01:05:43 How Kashf provided awareness
01:06:27 Fund Rasising
01:08:07 Zainab’s role and Gender Eqality at Kashf
01:09:58 Patriarchy’s Role
01:10:59 Access of Internet to Women
01:13:11 Social Safety Nets
01:17:55 Fintech in Pakistan
01:19:01 Technology is Gendered
01:25:49 Biological Determinism of Gender
01:26:35 Female Support
01:28:29 Generalisation in Content
01:29:02 Outro