What is microfinance? What is microcredit? What are the terms & conditions for accessing micro credit ? What is the difference between microfinance and microcredit? Who are the clients of microfinance? How does microfinance help the poor? What is a Self Help Group? What are the advantages of financing through SHGs? What is the SHG-bank linkage programme of National Bank for Agriculture & Rural Development (NABARD) ? What is SHG federation ? Objective(s) and activities of SHG federation What is Quality Assessment (QA)? What are the types of Quality Assessments done by APMAS? Do nascent/small SMFI require QA? What is GRADES? How was GRADES developed? Does APMAS use Critical Rating Index (CRI)? Does APMAS prepare the Assessment Report in Telugu & other languages ? Is GRADES used for QA of thrift cooperatives? Why is QA (Ratings) required? Who are the users of Quality Assessment? What is the process involved in Quality Assessment? How much time is taken for one Quality Assessment? What is the cost for Quality Assessment of SHG Federations using GRADES? Is APMAS developing a Self Assessment Tool for SHG Federations?
"For all these days we were just told what we supposed to do but this is the first time we are asked to think what we want to do ourselves for our own benefit."
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