Resource Centers

• Social Performance Resource Center
  This resource center, created jointly by CGAP and the Social Performance Task Force, seeks to promote a social performance bottom line in microfinance.  The site provides information on social performance tools, Social Performance Task Force activities, and highlights projects, research, and publications available on social performance management and assessement.
  
• Microfinance Regulation and Supervision Resource Center 
  This resource center, created jointly by CGAP and The IRIS Center at the University of Maryland, pulls together in one central location a growing collection of information and resources on recent experiences in regulating and supervising.
  
• CGAP Savings Information Resource Center
  The Savings Information Resource Center (SIRC) offers an opportunity to learn and share information on deposit mobilization among poor and excluded communities. The site collects, organizes, and disseminates the vast amount of information on savings.
  
• MicroInsurance Focus Resource Center 
  The MicroInsurance Focus Resource Center provides practical case studies, tools, current articles and comprehensive background resources to practitioners and others interested in this emerging field. Managed by the CGAP Working Group on Microinsurance, this website seeks to be a dynamic platform for exchange on topical issues and innovations.
  
• CGAP Technology Resource Center
  This resource center was designed to help microfinance institutions select the best information system, learn how to implement it, and find funding for their technology or innovation. MFIs can also use the site to share experiences about how various information systems work including the use of ATMs, PDAs, credit scoring, or other new technologies. Donors can find the tools they need to evaluate and make decisions about funding technology projects.

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  The Microfinance Gateway is in the process of reworking the resource centers listed below.
  
• Audit Services
  This resource center is a tool for MFIs, donors, and auditors. It is designed to provide each with better information on how to contract, conduct and use MFI audits. This center includes a glossary, FAQs, a discussion board, a virtual library, news, and external links. All these sections are designed to assist in increasing the quantity and improving the quality of MFI audits.
• Donor Information Resource Center (CGAP Direct)
  The CGAP DIRECT is a dissemination platform and exchange forum for staff of all types of organizations that fund microfinance programs. It provides a range of practical briefs, case studies, presentations, and operational tools to help you implement good practice in all your microfinance work.
• Product Costing Resource Center.
  Costing is a powerful tool that helps microfinance managers discover the the true cost of products. This resource center aims to facilitate the detailed cost analysis of microfinance products and also functions as a learning and knowledge exchange site on product costing in microfinance. It provides CGAP's product costing tool and the companion software for activity-based costing along with the results achieved by several microfinance institutions that have already tested the tool and specific training material based on the tool.
• Rating Fund
  The Microfinance Rating and Assessment Fund aims to improve the quality, reliability, and availability of information on the risk and performance of microfinance institutions (MFIs). It promotes transparency, good governance and the flow of private resources to the microfinance industry. It aims to (i) stimulate demand on the part of MFIs to contract external evaluations of their financial performance, and (ii) build a supply of competent rating and appraisal services at both local and international levels.