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| Board of Directors |
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| Dr. Carolyn I. Sobritchea |
| President |
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| Ms. Jocelyn F. Cajiuat |
| Vice President |
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| Atty. Grace Eloisa J. Que |
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| Sr. Zenaida Pineda |
| Treasurer |
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| Board Members |
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| Dr. Angelina M. Briones |
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| Ms. Aurora Regalado |
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| Ms. Alice Alviar |
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| Ms. Sylvia Beltran |
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| Mr. Milo Tanchuling |
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| Integrated Program on Gender and Development |
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Strategic
Partnership with the Women's Rural Bank
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In the advocacy for a gender responsive
micro-finance program also known as the integrated approach
to microfinance, the Women's Rural Bank is WISEACT's
main partner in the CALABARZON. The
program not only answers the need for capital
but it aims at providing a long-term integrated
support package, in which loans are combined
with social mobilization, participation,
training and education, so as to maximize the
income, opportunities, and empowerment impacts?
(McKee, 1989 in Sabharwal).
The programmatic expression of that partnership is the DEVELOPMENT DEPOSIT MOBILIZATION PROGRAM. The development deposit is earmarked as fund source for a women's microfinance project under the management and operation of WRB. In turn, the interest income from the deposit is earmarked to fund women's skills and entrepreneurship training project under the management and operation of WISE ACT. Over the years, the two complementary projects will enable the rural women to liberate themselves and their families from a life of sheer deprivation
of their economic, social and political means. Continuing access to capital resource and capability building further enables the women to transform their microenterprises into small or medium enterprises. In the long term, these enterprises become a pillar of local economies.
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| A. Gender-Sensitive Micro-Enterprise Development Program (MicroDev) |
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- To provide enterprise development services to community based organizations and individuals toward the improvement and upscaling of their enterprises and development of entreprenuerial skills and values of women.
Specifically it intends to:
- Build the motivational and behavioral aspects of entrepreneurship through value formation trainings;
- Enhance the entrepreneurial capacity of women micro-entrepreneurs through skills trainings, mentoring, exposure, market linkaging, and product research and development to upscale their enterprises;
- Build organizational capacity of community based group enterprise to advance women's economic empowerment.
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