BACKGROUND
For the past seven years as part of Microfinance India Summit,
State of the Sector Report
(SOS Report), microfinance
has become an important annual initiative. The document covers not only the status of MF in India but also issues,
innovations, practices, and models of microfinance sector. This report has consistently been brought out by ACCESS
Development Services and considered as an authentic national level document that describes the state and growth of
the Indian Microfinance sector. Moreover, this has been a unique and widely referred to document not only in India
but also in other parts of the world. The report has widened its ambit and evolved to become the ‘Inclusive Finance
India Report’ from this year with greater focus on financial inclusion.
ROLE OF UNDP FACILITATED MICROFINANCE COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
Since last six years, Microfinance Community—Solution Exchange, United Nations has been proactively contributing
in the formulation of the SOS report in the form of holding e-discussions and roundtables wherein leading MF
practitioners of the country participate and contribute.This makes the whole process more democratic as suggestions
on the structure of SoS are also taken from the members and initiatives of both small and big players of MF sector are
duly recognised. Full report of roundtable on SoS 2013 is available at:
docs/poverty/roundtable-on-state-of-the-sector-report-2013-microfinance.pdf
ROUNDTABLE ON INCLUSIVE FINANCE INDIA REPORT 2014
Objectives of the Roundtable on Inclusive Finance India Report 2014
• To seek suggestions from the participants on what should be included in the
Inclusive Finance India Report 2014
• To discuss about the innovative activities in the area of microfinance going on in different parts of the country
• To enumerate and discuss the specific emerging issues in different areas of work being done on financial inclusion
Annexure 2
POVERTY
MICROFINANCE COMMUNITY
REPORT OF THE ROUNDTABLE ON
INCLUSIVE FINANCE INDIA REPORT 2014
Date: 10 June 2014
Time: 10:00 A.M. to 2:45 P.M.
Venue: UN Conference Hall, UNDP, 55, Lodhi Estate, New Delhi, 110003, India
