by the MicroCapital Team -

SPECIAL REPORT: Chamroeun Microfinance Scaling Up to Fund SMEs Supplying Piped Water in Cambodia

e-MFP logoYannick Milev of Cambodia’s Chamroeun Microfinance presented today at European Microfinance Week on the lender’s expansion into providing loans as large as USD 250,000 to private companies that supply piped water to households in Cambodia. In rural parts of the country, the government issues monopolies to private water providers to serve given areas. Approximately 400 companies are licensed to receive these monopolies.

In designing the loan product, Chamroeun employed a technical assistance grant of

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MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Chamroeun Borrowing $1.2m from Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation for Microfinance in Cambodia

The Grameen Credit Agricole (GCA) Foundation, whose head office is in Luxembourg, recently informed MicroCapital that it is lending USD 1.2 million to Chamroeun Microfinance. Chamroeun was launched in 2006 as a nonprofit by French NGO Entrepreneurs du Monde to deliver loans, savings, and microinsurance to poor people in the city of Phnom Penh. The institution has since