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Mr. R. Balakrishnan, Executive Director, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, India

The case of the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) of India was one.

The bank has disbursed more than 100,000 loans mostly in rural areas.

Women were the borrowers on 7.0 of the loans granted by the main branches of the Agricultural Bank and also accounted for 7 of total loan approvals.

Both the Grameen Bank and the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee offer non financial services, such as retail outlet facilities for products of their clients.

The bank has disbursed more than 170,000 loans mostly in rural areas.

In Africa, UNICEF will coordinate its efforts closely with the African Development Bank in support of the Bank's Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Initiative.

A World Bank study found that women in rural Africa spend 65 per cent of their time on journeys on foot.

They plant the trees, and the money goes into their microcredit fund, which we call the Village Development Bank.

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In that context, the appointment of the Director of the Grameen Bank as a member of the Council demonstrated that UNIDO viewed the Bank apos s experience as important.

Particularly, with a view to improving gender equality and position of women in rural areas, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) adopted a Gender Strategy in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2010 and Gender Plan of Action in Agriculture and Rural Development to 2005.

Agricultural banks, rural offices of postal savings institutions, and various development and NGO projects have provided credit, often at subsidized rates, to the rural sector, SMEs and micro enterprises.

It's a part of the Village Development Bank it's not a real bank, but it's a fund microcredit.

In 2000, the Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development signed with the Vietnamese Women's Union a joint Resolution on Granting Loans for Women.

The Government should also consider the establishment of special banks and of improved access to credit for rural women.

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In countries lacking appropriate bank networks, particularly in rural areas, governments could consider the establishment of partnerships between leading banks and post office networks.

22. Various institutions are involved in the delivery of microfinance services. They include formal commercial banks, rural banks, cooperative institutions, credit unions and non governmental organizations.

The widely documented success story of the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, which provided credit and micro finance to small rural businesses and women, is now being replicated in more than 30 countries, with support from the World Bank.

Integration of the strategy for rural women into programmes of action designed to meet the needs of rural women

In particular, please inform the Committee what percentage of the non collateral loans made by People's Bank are granted to rural women as well as how the State Party intends to increase rural women's roles in cooperatives.

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh, the most prominent of the successes, now reaches over 2 million people, with cumulative lending of about 2.1 billion.

(f) To take all appropriate measures, including legislation, to modify or abolish existing laws, regulations, customs and practices which constitute discrimination against women

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These types of measures are particularly necessary in those countries or regions with least developed banking networks, which is usually the case in rural areas.

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To create sound living conditions in the village (aul) on the basis of the optimized rural settlement, the State Programme for Development of Rural Areas for 2004 2010 has been under implementation since 2004.

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The prominence given to the matter reflects the recent success of small scale lending programmes such as the Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.

(e) Division of Peasant Women and Rural Organization, in the Ministry of Agriculture, which encourages productive projects run by peasant women.

However, the many development projects in place were targeted at rural areas, because the majority of the population lived in those areas and because studies had revealed that there was the greatest need for intervention in the rural areas.

(c) Development and implementation of rural energy policies

51. With regard to small scale agro based industry, another question referred to in General Assembly resolution 49 103, he cited the example of the Grameen Bank, a very well known institution in his country which was in the laudable business of extending credit to small farmers, particularly women.

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The funds are channeled through the Agricultural Bank.

A farmers apos bank should be set up.

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For example, in the area of rural development and food security, ACC in April 1997 endorsed the proposal by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to establish the ACC Network on Rural Development and Food Security to replace the former ACC Subcommittee on Rural Development.

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