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From previous experience <strong>and</strong> lessons learnt in the first scheme the UNDP has<br />

broadened its approach to micr<strong>of</strong>inance with enterprise development service<br />

provision, improved on the training <strong>of</strong> the CRB staff in portfolio management <strong>and</strong><br />

encouraged the MPCSs to share the financial risk. Should these seven MPCSs<br />

perform successfully then the UNDP will implement the scheme for the<br />

remaining eight MPCSs in the Jaffna Peninsula.<br />

A UNDP <strong>of</strong>fice was opened in Vavuniya late in 2001. A scheme utilising an apex<br />

organisation, SANASA to operate the funding has been designed to give ‘the<br />

entrepreneurial poor’ access to financial services <strong>and</strong> these would be supported by<br />

enterprise development services supplied by both the private <strong>and</strong> public sectors.<br />

Presently the UNDP micr<strong>of</strong>inance specialist is negotiating the terms <strong>and</strong><br />

conditions <strong>of</strong> the scheme.<br />

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