Application of a micro-credit scheme to some ecological activities

1st International Symposium on Green Technology for Value Chains 2016

工业技术;生态环境科学

Hakoyama, F.^1

International Peace Research Institute, Meiji-Gakuin University, Japan^1

关键词: Common features;    Credit system;    Ecological environments;    Equipment dealers;    Poor households;    Solar PV systems;    Sustainable project;    System supports;   

Others  :  https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/60/1/012031/pdf
DOI  :  10.1088/1755-1315/60/1/012031

来源: IOP

【 摘 要 】

Micro-credit schemes are expanding very rapidly worldwide in ecological activities. Providing gas-cooking equipments in Burkina Faso is a successful example in which the micro-credit system contributes to improve not only poor women's life but also ecological environment. In Bangladesh, a solar PV system program through micro-credit has been implemented widely and successfully: big NGOs act as equipment dealers and provide micro-credit loans to individual poor households. In contrast, there are very few cases which showed positive results in sanitation projects. Micro-credit schemes are, in principle, based on the income generated through the fund. But in usual cases, sanitation activities do not yield any income. High cost of latrine construction is another barrier. In this paper, we reviewed why we could not apply a micro-credit scheme to our "Améli-eaur project" in Burkina Faso. Common features for the success in ecological activities are 1) enough income yielded from the activity itself, 2) the strong needs from population side, and 3) established system support, both technically and administratively. If we find a way to fulfill these elements in a sanitation project, it can be a long, sustainable project.