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DZPDP/WHRDA credit operations commenced with the disbursement <strong>of</strong> loans to<br />

the value <strong>of</strong> SLR 467,000 through its wholesale credit partner – the RRDB<br />

Kurunegala. After, this initial disbursement this activity was discontinued <strong>and</strong> all<br />

subsequent loans were delivered through the SRFs in thirteen divisional<br />

secretariat areas. DZPDP reimbursed “IFAD loans” amounting to SLR 8,506,500<br />

<strong>and</strong> loans (Provincial Council Funds) amounting to SLR 10,339,420. Therefore a<br />

total <strong>of</strong> SLR 18,845,920 was disbursed to the project implementing areas.<br />

The WHRDA as a savings <strong>and</strong> credit agency was found to be weak in its<br />

managerial <strong>and</strong> financial management with poor loan recoveries <strong>and</strong> the ‘on time<br />

repayment ratio, was reported as 60% by September 1997. The WHRADA also<br />

failed to meet the credit issue targets given by the project <strong>and</strong> its funding by the<br />

project was terminated late in 1997.<br />

As the reimbursement <strong>of</strong> loans was stopped by NWP/DZPDP in September1997,<br />

the WHRDA was compelled to re-lend the loan recoveries by operating the<br />

Revolving Loan Fund as it was permitted to keep loan repayments from the initial<br />

funds given (SLR 8.5 million) <strong>and</strong> to continue operating the RLF to issue further<br />

loans.<br />

This action appears to have positively stimulated the WHRDA <strong>and</strong> the amounts<br />

available in the RLF have been used for the expansion <strong>of</strong> credit facilities to the<br />

beneficiaries in the project area from 1997 to 2000 with some SLR18.8 million<br />

being disbursed by the year 2000 through revolving the original SLR8.5 million.<br />

The on time repayment ratio has improved to 92% as <strong>of</strong> September 2000 <strong>and</strong><br />

most <strong>of</strong> the earlier arrears recovered. The WHRDA has applied to the project for<br />

re-instatement as a credit agency.<br />

The main strength <strong>of</strong> the credit delivery system was the participatory role played<br />

by the SRFs <strong>and</strong> village SRSs at the grassroots level with the weakness that there<br />

was an over-emphasis on credit disbursement to the detriment <strong>of</strong> building a fully<br />

rounded <strong>Micr<strong>of</strong>inance</strong> system. Savings funds were not fully utilised as credit <strong>and</strong><br />

the WHRDA as a government agency could not mobilise savings for credit<br />

purposes.<br />

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