Study of Microfinance Sector Capacity Building in Sierra Leone

Strategic
objective
Outputs/
Indicators
Means of
Verification
Important
Assumptions
20 Sierra Leonean
actual and
potential
microfinance
consultants and
trainers identified
and trained
1. List &
particulars of local
MF consultants
2. SMART-Cap
monitoring reports
3. Terminal
evaluation report
4. Interviews with
the consultants.
All managers of
MFIs, public
officers who work
on microfinance
related functions
and MFI board
members fully
appreciate
microfinance
sound practices. 23
1. MFI perf’
reports
2. SMART Cap
monitoring reports
3. Interviews with
MF managers,
directors & public
officers
Industry cohesion
and collaboration
promoted
SLAMFI secretariat
established with
staff, own office,
budget & facilities.
SLAMFI takes the
initiative and
leads other MF
stakeholders in
lobbying,
disseminates MF
related
information
regularly
1. Office location
& address
2. SMART-Cap
reports
3. Interview with
SMART-Cap mgt
1. Other Financial
Services Act
reviewed to suit
mF
2. Lobby memoirs
and minutes
1. Government
and its
development
partners are
willing to fund
SLAMFI
establishment and
operation, without
unduly controlling
its governance
and operations.
SLAMFI conducts
regular, scheduled
microfinance
forums.
Minutes of MF
forum meetings
Business and
financial
awareness of the
population
enhanced
Clients/ members
of MFIs able to
articulate their
key rights and
responsibilities as
consumers of
financial services
1. Interviews with
people in
chiefdoms
2. SMART-Cap
monitoring reports
1. Government
takes this
(massive
sensitization of
the population of
business aptitude
& responsible
23 Having been trained or sensitized through programs implemented as part of this strategy