Credit products for women
Women’s credit products include:
- The Savings and Credit with Education Program (SCE). This program enables impoverished rural women to form small groups called Village Savings and Credit Unions (VSCUs) and obtain loans to support income-generating activities.
- The Intermediate Credit Association (ICA): This program allows emerging women within VSCUs to access larger loan amounts.
- The Women Traders’ Credit (WTC): This program meets the credit needs of urban and peri-urban women traders engaged in income-generating activities.
- The Emerging Women Entrepreneurs’ Credit (EWEC): This program enables individual women or women traders (WTCs or groups) to strengthen their production capacities and better exploit emerging opportunities.