The Zimbabwe Association of Microfinance Institutions (ZAMFI) today used the occasion of their 3rd Annual Microfinance Sector Winter School in Kariba, to launch a regulatory review of their sector. The Winter School is taking place from 18 and 20 May under the theme “Tranversing the Microfinance Landscape”.

2017 results with respect to outreach reflects a sector largely on a rebound with total disbursed loans for the year amounting to $197.2 million compared with $166.0 million in 2016, an increase by $31.2 million or 18.7%. This is inspite of the year 2017 being the period when interest ceiling of 10% interest rates by the Central Bank was introduced effective January 2017.

ZAMFI notes that the first half of the year has been a difficult period for the microfinance sector on account of many challenges bedeviling the sector which could potentially spillover into the second half. The top five challenges of great concern to the sector included high cost of funding, shortage of cash & foreign currency, a general rise in cost of operations, limited product development and the perceived high country risk.

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