DISA’s microfinance programme has proved itself to be a blessing for many disadvantaged families through a record of success by promoting financial resilience and achieving other social objectives – reaching the excluded, empowering women and developing the capacity of small groups of people to be in charge of their own lives. It aims to empower women, alleviate children and adolescents' hidden hunger, and eliminate rural poverty.
DISA’s microfinance programme has a particular focus in serving women from disadvantaged communities by providing them financial support through credit delivery and encouraging them to generate savings. DISA covers 101 Upazilas in 19 districts of Bangladesh through its microfinance programme with a network of 5,965 Village Organizations (VOs) under 102 microfinance branches. There are 1,15,881 members and 86,824 borrowers as on March 2024, among them 83,079 are female borrowers.
# | Loan Product | No. of Members | No. of Borrowers | Loan O/S(M) | Savings(M) | Cumulative dis(M) |
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1 | Jagoron | 84,461 | 57,703 | 1,542.62 | 1151.62 | 21,601.00 |
2 | Agroshor | 23,422 | 22,122 | 1,521.58 | 507.93 | 15,219.43 |
3 | Buniad | 2,508 | 2,161 | 23.32 | 6.34 | 108.36 |
4 | Sufolon | 930 | 849 | 162.59 | 11.49 | 2,017.07 |
5 | ILFF | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.43 |
6 | LRP | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7.44 |
7 | EFFRAP | 38 | 36 | 0.91 | 0 | 481.65 |
8 | IGA | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.05 |
9 | WCAD | 4,522 | 3,953 | 82.68 | 40.24 | 591.62 |
Total | 1,15,881 | 86,824 | 3333.70 | 1,717.62 | 40,028.05 |