| ID: | 52665 |
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| Country: | Philippines |
| Title: | Philippines- Rural Microenterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP) - June 2017 |
| Description: |
Rachel Humiwat is a licensed tour guide in Banaue, a city in the Ifugao region of the Philippines which holds the status of UNESCO world heritage site due to its huge man-made rice terraces. Together with her colleagues who work for the BATO tour organization, she benefited from IFAD’s support through its Rural Microenterprise Promotion Programme (RuMEPP). The programme provided them with proper trekking equipment, a refresher on first aid, and courses on Ifugao history and culture and behavioural protocols of different nationalities. Building on the experiences of the Rural Microenterprise Finance Project (RMFP), RuMEPP targeted the poorest 19 provinces in five poor regions in the country, focusing on areas with the highest potential for enterprise development. Among these 19 provinces were Abra, Ifugao and Kalinga in the Cordillera Administrative Region. RuMEPP aimed to raise the incomes and improve the livelihoods of poor rural people by providing them with loans and other financial services and business development services, such as capacity-building, market linkages and product development. It worked with microentrepreneurs and other poor people involved in microenterprises, including women, young people and indigenous peoples in rural areas. Although RuMEPP focused on the formation and expansion of microenterprises at the lower and poorer end of the scale of assets, it also included larger microenterprises, which were and are an important source of employment. The project directly benefited about 200,000 households. Find out more about how RuMEPP has supported microenterprises in the Philippines at http://bit.ly/2ACH1li. |
| Size: | 12.23 MB; 5760 x 3840 pixels; 488 x 325 mm (print at 300 DPI); 1524 x 1016 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Show more details: | Irshad Khan |
| Copyright: | © IFAD/Irshad Khan |
| Categories: | none |
| URL: | www.ifad.org |
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