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Grant Assistance Report

Project Number 43158-01 April 2010

Proposed Grant Assistance

India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens

Empowerment (Financed by the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction)

CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of March 2010)

Currency Unit ndash Indian rupees (ReRs)

Re100 = $0021 $100 = Rs4559

ABBREVIATIONS

ADB ndash Asian Development Bank CGTMSE ndash Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small

Enterprises CPS ndash country partnership strategy JFPR ndash Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction JICA ndash Japan International Cooperation Agency MampE ndash monitoring and evaluation MFI ndash microfinance institution MIS ndash management information system NBFC ndash nonbanking financial company NGO ndash nongovernment organization SARD ndash South Asia Department SFMC ndash SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit SIDBI ndash Small Industries Development Bank of India SMEs ndash small and medium-sized enterprises SMERA ndash Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency SOE ndash statement of expenditure TA ndash technical assistance

NOTES

(i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of India and its agencies ends on 31

March FY before a calendar year denotes the year in which the fiscal year ends eg FY 2009 ends on 31 March 2009

(ii) In this report $ refers to US dollars

Vice President X Zhao Operations 1 Director General S H Rahman South Asia Department (SARD) Director

A Sharma Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division SARD

Team leader Team members

F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) SARD S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

In preparing any country program or strategy financing any project or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area

JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION (JFPR)

JFPR Grant Proposal

I Basic Data

Name of Proposed Activity Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

Country India

Grant Amount Requested $3000000

Grant Duration 36 months

Regional Grant Yes No

Grant Type Project Capacity building

II Grant Development Objective(s) and Expected Key Performance Indicators

Grant Development Objectives The primary objective of the grant is to help low-income female microentrepreneurs access financial resources services and market opportunities in selected Indian states (ie Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh)

1 The grant will (i) assess existing gender policies

strategies and practicesmdashincluding institutional arrangementsmdashadopted by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks (including cooperative banks) (ii) organize training targeting the specific needs of female microentrepreneurs for SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies (NBFCs) and banks (iii) support SIDBI retailers in addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services and (iv) establish a monitoring and evaluation (MampE) system to assess the results of financed activities under this grant

Expected Key Performance Indicators Better quality of life for low-income female microentrepreneurs in the grant areas (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in new female entrants in micro and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) assisted by the grant (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline)

III Grant Categories of Expenditure Amounts and Percentage of Expenditures

Category Amount of Grant Allocated

($) Percentage of Expenditures

1 Training (including workshops seminars and lateral learning) 1188800 40

2 Consulting services (including livelihood enterprise learning advisors) 812500 27

3 Project management 684889 22

4 Direct intervention (financial services for the poor) 144000 5

5 Contingencies 169811 6

Total 3000000 100

1 The five proposed states have been selected based on criteria including (i) high incidence of poverty low

socioeconomic status and gender indicators gathered by comparing state and national data (ii) those with which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has engagement (iii) existence of Small Industries Development Bank (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) branches (iv) sufficient number of committed financial partners willing to engage with SIDBI in the grant activities and (v) underserved status in availability of credit and other financial services targeting the ―missing middle segment Considering the pilot nature of the grant SIDBI requested to extend the pilots to five states to capture a broader spectrum of low-income female entrepreneurs from diverse socioeconomic contexts This will add to the richness of the grant increase options for lateral learning and generate best practices for replication and scaling up

2

JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information

A Other Data

Date of Submission of Application

20 October 2009

Project Officer F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development)

Project Officerrsquos Division E-mail Phone

Office of the Director General South Asia Department (SARD) ftornieriadborg +632 632 5983

Other Staff Members Who Will Need Access to Edit andor Review the Report

S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

Sector (subsector) Industry and trade (SME development)

Themes (subthemes) Economic growth (widening access to markets and economic opportunities) gender equity (economic opportunities) private sector development (private sector investment) capacity development (organizational development)

Targeting Classification General intervention

Was JFPR seed money used to prepare this grant proposal

Yes [ ] No [ ]

Have Staff Review Committee (SRC) comments been reflected in the proposal

Yes [ ] No [ ]

Name of Associated Asian Development Bank (ADB) Financed Operation(s)

Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project2

Executing Agency Ministry of Finance

Grant Implementing Agency Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit SIDBI Tower 15 Ashok Marg Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 226001 Tel +91 522 228 8547484950 E-mail sfmcsidbiin

B Details of the Proposed Grant

1 Description of the Components Monitorable Deliverables andor Outcomes and Implementation Timetable

Component A

Component Name Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

2 This JPFR grant is attached to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project which supports

micro and SME access to term finance through (i) a partial credit guarantee facility of up to $250 million without government counterindemnity to assist Indiarsquos public sector banks with sizeable micro and SME business in raising long-term funding in international capital markets through the launch of a financial instrument partially guaranteed by ADB and (ii) a loan up to $50 million to SIDBI with a sovereign counterguarantee for onlending to micro and SMEs with 30 of the credit line to be targeted to female entrepreneurs The JPFR grant will complement the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Projectrsquos proposed approach by providing much-needed capacity-building support to low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector ADB 2010 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project Manila (approved on 26 February)

3

Cost ($) $130900

Component Description This component will strengthen the ability of SIDBI and its retailers to incorporate gender and social inclusion approaches into the development of policies strategies and programs

3 More

specifically this will include (i) assessing existing gender policies and practices adopted

by SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to promote gender equality and female empowerment

4

(ii) reviewing gender-sensitive and -inclusive programs of wholesalers and retailers to identify gaps through workshops with heads of organizations andor senior managers of SIDBI and its retailers

(iii) revising policies and practices and reformatting relevant loan processing forms as needed to incorporate best practice standards and

(iv) organizing initial consultations and exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to disseminate results and help institutionalize such practices (including business development reporting MampE and gender equality) for highlighting considerations of poverty social inclusion and gender equity

Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

Gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks documented through workshops with heads and senior management of the organizations Improved methods to institutionalize gender and socially inclusive approaches adopted as needed Exchange and lateral learning initiatives carried out among SIDBI partners through seminars and dissemination workshops

Number of months for grant activities

6 months

Component B

Component Name Training of Stakeholders Involved in Female Entrepreneurship

Cost ($) $1269300

Component Description SIDBI will organize training and capacity development that targets (i) the needs of SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks and (ii) low-income female microentrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

5 This

3 The mission of SFMC explicitly addresses the needs of women in poverty The foundationrsquos aim is to create a

national network of strong viable and sustainable MFIs from the informal and formal financial sectors to provide microfinance services to the poor especially women Furthermore 80 of beneficiaries of SIDBI and its retailers are women To institutionalize the intent to address needs of poor women more systematically SIDBI is now committed to adopting a social inclusion and gender policy which will be developed through the interventions proposed in this grant

4 NBFCs carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt Instead

these institutions mobilize public savings for rendering other financial services including investment All such institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend are known as nonbanking financial intermediaries or investment institutions In addition retailers are organizations that onlend to clients thus banks are retailers Wholesalers are institutions that lend to retailers SIDBI is both a wholesaler and a retailer As a wholesaler SIDBI lends to partner organizations As a retailer it operates through its microcredit branches across India

5 For the purpose of this grant low-income female microentrepreneurs are defined as women from households that are just above the poverty line as defined by the Government of India The unorganized sector as defined by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sectors (NCEUS) is all unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale and production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers The baseline data collection will

4

will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

6 to enhance

the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

(i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

(ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

(iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

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microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

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On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

(ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

Number of months for grant activities

36 months

Component C

Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

Cost ($) $414000

Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

(i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

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guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

(iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

Number of months for grant activities

36 months

8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

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Component D

Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

Cost ($) $316100

Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

(ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

(iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

(iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

(i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

(ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

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groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

9

Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

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Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

Number of months for grant activities

36 months

Component E

Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

Cost ($) $699889

Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

(iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

9

Number of months for grant activities

36 months

2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

Funding Source Amount ($)

JFPR 3000000

Government 108000

Community contribution 106700

Total 3214700

3 Background

1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

11

―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

10

4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

(i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

(iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

5 Sustainability

8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

13

F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

11

institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

6 Participatory Approach

9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

Brief Description

Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

17

As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

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Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

13

relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

14

long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

1 Link to ADB Strategy

Document

Document Number

Date of Last

Discussion Objective(s)

ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

19

Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

18

The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

15

Year Plan (2007-2012)

work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

Project Number 43158-01

Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

16

micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

Agency SIDBI

2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

17

unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

3 Incremental ADB Costs

Component Incremental Bank Cost

Amount requested $0

Justification Not Applicable

Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

Female microentrepreneurs trained

Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

Financial services progress reports

Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

FY2010 1000000

FY2011 1000000

FY2012 1000000

Total Disbursements 3000000

18

Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

Appendix 1 19

DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

Data Sources andor Reporting

Mechanisms

Assumptions andor Risks

Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

1 (20 increase from 2010

baseline)

Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

20 Appendix 1

Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

Data Sources andor Reporting

Mechanisms

Assumptions andor Risks

trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

Financial services Business processes

4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

Appendix 1 21

Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

Data Sources andor Reporting

Mechanisms

Assumptions andor Risks

Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

(i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

(ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

Source Asian Development Bank

22

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pe

ndix

2

SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

Component A

Institutionalization of

Gender-related Policies

Strategies and Programs

Component B

Training of Stakeholders

Involved in Womens

Entrepreneurship

Component C

Financial Services for

Low Income

Microentrepreneurs

Component D

Effective Monitoring and

Evaluation of Results

Component E

Project Administration

Implementation Support

Monitoring and Auditing

Total

(Input)Percent

1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

Government contribution 108000 108000

Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

Inputs Expenditure Category

Grant Components

1 includes duties and taxes

JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

Ap

pe

ndix

3 23

DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

Units Per Unit US$

AmountMethod of

Procurement

Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

(lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

112 Initital Consultations

1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

[3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

(lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

(2each)5000 5000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

(incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

womensession $20day

person-month

(lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

retailersstate10800 10800

Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

231 Recruitment of Training Institute

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

person-month

(lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

QBS or

individual

COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

24

A

pp

en

dix

3

Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

Units Per Unit US$

AmountMethod of

Procurement

Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

(lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

(2each) 100 9000 9000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

(2each) 100

90009000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

25 Enterprise Financing

251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

(2each) 50

90009000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

person-month

(lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

(lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

Ap

pe

ndix

3 25

Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

Units Per Unit US$

AmountMethod of

Procurement

Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

assessment)

person-month

(lump sum) 8

10000 80000 80000

412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

(b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

Selection

43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

54 Equipment and supplies

541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

Communities

CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

JFPR Government Other Donors

These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

26 Appendix 4

FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

Appendix 4 27

3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

ADB

$138754

$1345458

$438840

$335066 Component D

Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

Component C Development of

Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

Imprest Account held at SIDBI

Component E

Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

$741882

28 Appendix 5

IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

Appendix 5 29

C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

Women Microentrepreneurs

National Training Institutes

National Research Institute

SIDBI

NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

National Resource Organization

Banks (including cooperative banks)

LELAs

Ministry of Finance

30 Appendix 5

D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

Appendix 5 31

G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

32 Appendix 6

SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

LendingFinancing Modality

Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

Department Division

South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

1 About 221 million people

(72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

3

Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

4

Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

5

B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

Appendix 6 33

51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

B Consultation and Participation

1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

34 Appendix 6

through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

C Gender and Development

1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

Appendix 6 35

assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

Involuntary Resettlement

No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

framework No action

Indigenous Peoples

Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

framework No action

Labor Employment

opportunities Labor

retrenchment Core labor

standards

The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

No impact Plan Other action No action

Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

No impact Action No action

36 Appendix 6

resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

HIVAIDS Human

trafficking Others

No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

No impact Plan Other action No action

IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

Source Asian Development Bank

Appendix 7 37

OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

38 Appendix 7

sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

1 Initial consultations

Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

20 participantsstate 100 3

3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

Retailers 40

Government 20

Donors 20

Other stakeholders 15

B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

50 3

2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

Women microentrepreneurs

250 participants in 5 selected States

1200 3

3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

250 participants in 5 selected States

1200 3

4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

Women microentrepreneurs

250 participants in 5 selected States

1200 3

5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

2 participants each Retailer (25)

50 4

6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

2 participants each Retailer (25)

50 4

7 Enterprise financing (1)

SIDBI 50 50 3

Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

Appendix 7 39

C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

40 Appendix 7

grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

Appendix 7 41

(i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

(ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

(iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

(iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

(i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

(ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

(iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

(iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

(v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

(i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

(ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

42 Appendix 7

(iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

(iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

(v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

  • JFPR Grant Proposal
  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
  • Appendixes
    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

    CURRENCY EQUIVALENTS (as of March 2010)

    Currency Unit ndash Indian rupees (ReRs)

    Re100 = $0021 $100 = Rs4559

    ABBREVIATIONS

    ADB ndash Asian Development Bank CGTMSE ndash Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small

    Enterprises CPS ndash country partnership strategy JFPR ndash Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction JICA ndash Japan International Cooperation Agency MampE ndash monitoring and evaluation MFI ndash microfinance institution MIS ndash management information system NBFC ndash nonbanking financial company NGO ndash nongovernment organization SARD ndash South Asia Department SFMC ndash SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit SIDBI ndash Small Industries Development Bank of India SMEs ndash small and medium-sized enterprises SMERA ndash Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency SOE ndash statement of expenditure TA ndash technical assistance

    NOTES

    (i) The fiscal year (FY) of the Government of India and its agencies ends on 31

    March FY before a calendar year denotes the year in which the fiscal year ends eg FY 2009 ends on 31 March 2009

    (ii) In this report $ refers to US dollars

    Vice President X Zhao Operations 1 Director General S H Rahman South Asia Department (SARD) Director

    A Sharma Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division SARD

    Team leader Team members

    F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development) SARD S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

    In preparing any country program or strategy financing any project or by making any designation of or reference to a particular territory or geographic area in this document the Asian Development Bank does not intend to make any judgments as to the legal or other status of any territory or area

    JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION (JFPR)

    JFPR Grant Proposal

    I Basic Data

    Name of Proposed Activity Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

    Country India

    Grant Amount Requested $3000000

    Grant Duration 36 months

    Regional Grant Yes No

    Grant Type Project Capacity building

    II Grant Development Objective(s) and Expected Key Performance Indicators

    Grant Development Objectives The primary objective of the grant is to help low-income female microentrepreneurs access financial resources services and market opportunities in selected Indian states (ie Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh)

    1 The grant will (i) assess existing gender policies

    strategies and practicesmdashincluding institutional arrangementsmdashadopted by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks (including cooperative banks) (ii) organize training targeting the specific needs of female microentrepreneurs for SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies (NBFCs) and banks (iii) support SIDBI retailers in addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services and (iv) establish a monitoring and evaluation (MampE) system to assess the results of financed activities under this grant

    Expected Key Performance Indicators Better quality of life for low-income female microentrepreneurs in the grant areas (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in new female entrants in micro and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) assisted by the grant (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline)

    III Grant Categories of Expenditure Amounts and Percentage of Expenditures

    Category Amount of Grant Allocated

    ($) Percentage of Expenditures

    1 Training (including workshops seminars and lateral learning) 1188800 40

    2 Consulting services (including livelihood enterprise learning advisors) 812500 27

    3 Project management 684889 22

    4 Direct intervention (financial services for the poor) 144000 5

    5 Contingencies 169811 6

    Total 3000000 100

    1 The five proposed states have been selected based on criteria including (i) high incidence of poverty low

    socioeconomic status and gender indicators gathered by comparing state and national data (ii) those with which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has engagement (iii) existence of Small Industries Development Bank (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) branches (iv) sufficient number of committed financial partners willing to engage with SIDBI in the grant activities and (v) underserved status in availability of credit and other financial services targeting the ―missing middle segment Considering the pilot nature of the grant SIDBI requested to extend the pilots to five states to capture a broader spectrum of low-income female entrepreneurs from diverse socioeconomic contexts This will add to the richness of the grant increase options for lateral learning and generate best practices for replication and scaling up

    2

    JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

    JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information

    A Other Data

    Date of Submission of Application

    20 October 2009

    Project Officer F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development)

    Project Officerrsquos Division E-mail Phone

    Office of the Director General South Asia Department (SARD) ftornieriadborg +632 632 5983

    Other Staff Members Who Will Need Access to Edit andor Review the Report

    S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

    Sector (subsector) Industry and trade (SME development)

    Themes (subthemes) Economic growth (widening access to markets and economic opportunities) gender equity (economic opportunities) private sector development (private sector investment) capacity development (organizational development)

    Targeting Classification General intervention

    Was JFPR seed money used to prepare this grant proposal

    Yes [ ] No [ ]

    Have Staff Review Committee (SRC) comments been reflected in the proposal

    Yes [ ] No [ ]

    Name of Associated Asian Development Bank (ADB) Financed Operation(s)

    Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project2

    Executing Agency Ministry of Finance

    Grant Implementing Agency Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit SIDBI Tower 15 Ashok Marg Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 226001 Tel +91 522 228 8547484950 E-mail sfmcsidbiin

    B Details of the Proposed Grant

    1 Description of the Components Monitorable Deliverables andor Outcomes and Implementation Timetable

    Component A

    Component Name Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

    2 This JPFR grant is attached to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project which supports

    micro and SME access to term finance through (i) a partial credit guarantee facility of up to $250 million without government counterindemnity to assist Indiarsquos public sector banks with sizeable micro and SME business in raising long-term funding in international capital markets through the launch of a financial instrument partially guaranteed by ADB and (ii) a loan up to $50 million to SIDBI with a sovereign counterguarantee for onlending to micro and SMEs with 30 of the credit line to be targeted to female entrepreneurs The JPFR grant will complement the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Projectrsquos proposed approach by providing much-needed capacity-building support to low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector ADB 2010 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project Manila (approved on 26 February)

    3

    Cost ($) $130900

    Component Description This component will strengthen the ability of SIDBI and its retailers to incorporate gender and social inclusion approaches into the development of policies strategies and programs

    3 More

    specifically this will include (i) assessing existing gender policies and practices adopted

    by SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to promote gender equality and female empowerment

    4

    (ii) reviewing gender-sensitive and -inclusive programs of wholesalers and retailers to identify gaps through workshops with heads of organizations andor senior managers of SIDBI and its retailers

    (iii) revising policies and practices and reformatting relevant loan processing forms as needed to incorporate best practice standards and

    (iv) organizing initial consultations and exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to disseminate results and help institutionalize such practices (including business development reporting MampE and gender equality) for highlighting considerations of poverty social inclusion and gender equity

    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

    Gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks documented through workshops with heads and senior management of the organizations Improved methods to institutionalize gender and socially inclusive approaches adopted as needed Exchange and lateral learning initiatives carried out among SIDBI partners through seminars and dissemination workshops

    Number of months for grant activities

    6 months

    Component B

    Component Name Training of Stakeholders Involved in Female Entrepreneurship

    Cost ($) $1269300

    Component Description SIDBI will organize training and capacity development that targets (i) the needs of SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks and (ii) low-income female microentrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

    5 This

    3 The mission of SFMC explicitly addresses the needs of women in poverty The foundationrsquos aim is to create a

    national network of strong viable and sustainable MFIs from the informal and formal financial sectors to provide microfinance services to the poor especially women Furthermore 80 of beneficiaries of SIDBI and its retailers are women To institutionalize the intent to address needs of poor women more systematically SIDBI is now committed to adopting a social inclusion and gender policy which will be developed through the interventions proposed in this grant

    4 NBFCs carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt Instead

    these institutions mobilize public savings for rendering other financial services including investment All such institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend are known as nonbanking financial intermediaries or investment institutions In addition retailers are organizations that onlend to clients thus banks are retailers Wholesalers are institutions that lend to retailers SIDBI is both a wholesaler and a retailer As a wholesaler SIDBI lends to partner organizations As a retailer it operates through its microcredit branches across India

    5 For the purpose of this grant low-income female microentrepreneurs are defined as women from households that are just above the poverty line as defined by the Government of India The unorganized sector as defined by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sectors (NCEUS) is all unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale and production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers The baseline data collection will

    4

    will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

    6 to enhance

    the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

    On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

    (i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

    (ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

    (iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

    follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

    6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

    five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

    5

    microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

    7

    On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

    (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

    retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

    Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

    Number of months for grant activities

    36 months

    Component C

    Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

    Cost ($) $414000

    Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

    (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

    7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

    business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

    6

    guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

    fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

    SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

    (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

    Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

    Number of months for grant activities

    36 months

    8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

    viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

    7

    Component D

    Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

    Cost ($) $316100

    Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

    Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

    entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

    (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

    (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

    (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

    Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

    (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

    (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

    8

    groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

    9

    Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

    10

    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

    One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

    Number of months for grant activities

    36 months

    Component E

    Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

    Cost ($) $699889

    Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

    development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

    (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

    SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

    9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

    Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

    10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

    9

    Number of months for grant activities

    36 months

    2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

    Funding Source Amount ($)

    JFPR 3000000

    Government 108000

    Community contribution 106700

    Total 3214700

    3 Background

    1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

    11

    ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

    12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

    10

    4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

    In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

    4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

    (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

    identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

    (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

    5 Sustainability

    8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

    13

    F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

    International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

    14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

    15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

    16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

    11

    institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

    6 Participatory Approach

    9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

    and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

    Brief Description

    Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

    The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

    The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

    17

    As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

    12

    Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

    The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

    Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

    The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

    Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

    NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

    13

    relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

    Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

    7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

    14

    long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

    1 Link to ADB Strategy

    Document

    Document Number

    Date of Last

    Discussion Objective(s)

    ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

    CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

    March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

    19

    Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

    2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

    18

    The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

    19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

    15

    Year Plan (2007-2012)

    work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

    2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

    Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

    Project Number 43158-01

    Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

    Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

    3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

    4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

    1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

    2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

    This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

    5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

    18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

    16

    micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

    Agency SIDBI

    2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

    Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

    Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

    SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

    Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

    Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

    The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

    17

    unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

    proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

    3 Incremental ADB Costs

    Component Incremental Bank Cost

    Amount requested $0

    Justification Not Applicable

    Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

    4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

    Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

    Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

    Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

    Female microentrepreneurs trained

    Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

    Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

    Financial services progress reports

    Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

    5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

    Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

    FY2010 1000000

    FY2011 1000000

    FY2012 1000000

    Total Disbursements 3000000

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    Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

    Appendix 1 19

    DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

    Data Sources andor Reporting

    Mechanisms

    Assumptions andor Risks

    Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

    Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

    1 (20 increase from 2010

    baseline)

    Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

    Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

    Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

    Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

    Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

    Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

    Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

    Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

    1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

    2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

    Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

    Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

    20 Appendix 1

    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

    Data Sources andor Reporting

    Mechanisms

    Assumptions andor Risks

    trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

    3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

    Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

    Financial services Business processes

    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

    Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

    Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

    Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

    1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

    promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

    12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

    13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

    2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

    and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

    22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

    Appendix 1 21

    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

    Data Sources andor Reporting

    Mechanisms

    Assumptions andor Risks

    Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

    (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

    (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

    indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

    34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

    andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

    status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

    Source Asian Development Bank

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    SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

    Component A

    Institutionalization of

    Gender-related Policies

    Strategies and Programs

    Component B

    Training of Stakeholders

    Involved in Womens

    Entrepreneurship

    Component C

    Financial Services for

    Low Income

    Microentrepreneurs

    Component D

    Effective Monitoring and

    Evaluation of Results

    Component E

    Project Administration

    Implementation Support

    Monitoring and Auditing

    Total

    (Input)Percent

    1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

    2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

    3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

    4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

    5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

    Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

    Government contribution 108000 108000

    Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

    Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

    Inputs Expenditure Category

    Grant Components

    1 includes duties and taxes

    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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    DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

    Units Per Unit US$

    AmountMethod of

    Procurement

    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

    11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

    111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

    (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

    112 Initital Consultations

    1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

    Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

    1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

    Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

    113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

    [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

    Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

    21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

    211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

    212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

    213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

    (2each)5000 5000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

    22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

    (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

    Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

    recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

    womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

    womensession $20day

    person-month

    (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

    222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

    223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

    retailersstate10800 10800

    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

    23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

    231 Recruitment of Training Institute

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

    training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

    person-month

    (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

    QBS or

    individual

    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

    CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

    Units Per Unit US$

    AmountMethod of

    Procurement

    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

    232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

    24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

    241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

    (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

    242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

    (2each) 100 9000 9000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

    Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

    243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

    (2each) 100

    90009000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

    Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

    25 Enterprise Financing

    251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

    252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

    2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

    (2each) 50

    90009000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

    Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

    Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

    32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

    assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

    person-month

    (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

    33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

    JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

    Units Per Unit US$

    AmountMethod of

    Procurement

    Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

    41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

    411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

    Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

    Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

    assessment)

    person-month

    (lump sum) 8

    10000 80000 80000

    412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

    Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

    (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

    Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

    Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

    42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

    Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

    Selection

    43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

    Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

    Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

    Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

    Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

    51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

    52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

    53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

    consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

    Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

    532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

    533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

    534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

    535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

    536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

    consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

    Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

    537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

    consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

    54 Equipment and supplies

    541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

    transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

    Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

    Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

    Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

    Communities

    CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

    JFPR Government Other Donors

    These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

    26 Appendix 4

    FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

    1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

    Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

    2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

    the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

    Appendix 4 27

    3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

    ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

    Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

    ADB

    $138754

    $1345458

    $438840

    $335066 Component D

    Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

    Component C Development of

    Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

    Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

    Imprest Account held at SIDBI

    Component E

    Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

    $741882

    28 Appendix 5

    IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

    A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

    1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

    Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

    Appendix 5 29

    C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

    Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

    LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

    Women Microentrepreneurs

    National Training Institutes

    National Research Institute

    SIDBI

    NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

    National Resource Organization

    Banks (including cooperative banks)

    LELAs

    Ministry of Finance

    30 Appendix 5

    D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

    2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

    Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

    Appendix 5 31

    G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

    32 Appendix 6

    SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

    India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

    LendingFinancing Modality

    Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

    Department Division

    South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

    I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

    A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

    1 About 221 million people

    (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

    2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

    power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

    3

    Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

    4

    Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

    5

    B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

    1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

    Appendix 6 33

    51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

    2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

    II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

    A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

    6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

    to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

    B Consultation and Participation

    1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

    An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

    34 Appendix 6

    through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

    2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

    Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

    3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

    C Gender and Development

    1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

    Appendix 6 35

    assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

    Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

    III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

    Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

    Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

    Involuntary Resettlement

    No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

    No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

    framework No action

    Indigenous Peoples

    Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

    No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

    framework No action

    Labor Employment

    opportunities Labor

    retrenchment Core labor

    standards

    The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

    No impact Plan Other action No action

    Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

    No impact Action No action

    36 Appendix 6

    resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

    Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

    HIVAIDS Human

    trafficking Others

    No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

    No impact Plan Other action No action

    IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

    Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

    1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

    2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

    3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

    4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

    5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

    6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

    community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

    Source Asian Development Bank

    Appendix 7 37

    OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

    4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

    38 Appendix 7

    sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

    Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

    Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

    A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

    1 Initial consultations

    Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

    Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

    SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

    2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

    20 participantsstate 100 3

    3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

    Retailers 40

    Government 20

    Donors 20

    Other stakeholders 15

    B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

    1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

    SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

    MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

    50 3

    2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

    Women microentrepreneurs

    250 participants in 5 selected States

    1200 3

    3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

    250 participants in 5 selected States

    1200 3

    4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

    Women microentrepreneurs

    250 participants in 5 selected States

    1200 3

    5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

    2 participants each Retailer (25)

    50 4

    6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

    2 participants each Retailer (25)

    50 4

    7 Enterprise financing (1)

    SIDBI 50 50 3

    Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

    Appendix 7 39

    C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

    40 Appendix 7

    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

    Appendix 7 41

    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

    42 Appendix 7

    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

    • JFPR Grant Proposal
    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
    • Appendixes
      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

      JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION (JFPR)

      JFPR Grant Proposal

      I Basic Data

      Name of Proposed Activity Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

      Country India

      Grant Amount Requested $3000000

      Grant Duration 36 months

      Regional Grant Yes No

      Grant Type Project Capacity building

      II Grant Development Objective(s) and Expected Key Performance Indicators

      Grant Development Objectives The primary objective of the grant is to help low-income female microentrepreneurs access financial resources services and market opportunities in selected Indian states (ie Madhya Pradesh Maharashtra Orissa Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh)

      1 The grant will (i) assess existing gender policies

      strategies and practicesmdashincluding institutional arrangementsmdashadopted by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks (including cooperative banks) (ii) organize training targeting the specific needs of female microentrepreneurs for SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies (NBFCs) and banks (iii) support SIDBI retailers in addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services and (iv) establish a monitoring and evaluation (MampE) system to assess the results of financed activities under this grant

      Expected Key Performance Indicators Better quality of life for low-income female microentrepreneurs in the grant areas (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline) Increase in new female entrants in micro and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) assisted by the grant (20 increase at grant end compared to 2010 baseline)

      III Grant Categories of Expenditure Amounts and Percentage of Expenditures

      Category Amount of Grant Allocated

      ($) Percentage of Expenditures

      1 Training (including workshops seminars and lateral learning) 1188800 40

      2 Consulting services (including livelihood enterprise learning advisors) 812500 27

      3 Project management 684889 22

      4 Direct intervention (financial services for the poor) 144000 5

      5 Contingencies 169811 6

      Total 3000000 100

      1 The five proposed states have been selected based on criteria including (i) high incidence of poverty low

      socioeconomic status and gender indicators gathered by comparing state and national data (ii) those with which the Asian Development Bank (ADB) has engagement (iii) existence of Small Industries Development Bank (SIDBI) and SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) branches (iv) sufficient number of committed financial partners willing to engage with SIDBI in the grant activities and (v) underserved status in availability of credit and other financial services targeting the ―missing middle segment Considering the pilot nature of the grant SIDBI requested to extend the pilots to five states to capture a broader spectrum of low-income female entrepreneurs from diverse socioeconomic contexts This will add to the richness of the grant increase options for lateral learning and generate best practices for replication and scaling up

      2

      JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

      JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information

      A Other Data

      Date of Submission of Application

      20 October 2009

      Project Officer F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development)

      Project Officerrsquos Division E-mail Phone

      Office of the Director General South Asia Department (SARD) ftornieriadborg +632 632 5983

      Other Staff Members Who Will Need Access to Edit andor Review the Report

      S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

      Sector (subsector) Industry and trade (SME development)

      Themes (subthemes) Economic growth (widening access to markets and economic opportunities) gender equity (economic opportunities) private sector development (private sector investment) capacity development (organizational development)

      Targeting Classification General intervention

      Was JFPR seed money used to prepare this grant proposal

      Yes [ ] No [ ]

      Have Staff Review Committee (SRC) comments been reflected in the proposal

      Yes [ ] No [ ]

      Name of Associated Asian Development Bank (ADB) Financed Operation(s)

      Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project2

      Executing Agency Ministry of Finance

      Grant Implementing Agency Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit SIDBI Tower 15 Ashok Marg Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 226001 Tel +91 522 228 8547484950 E-mail sfmcsidbiin

      B Details of the Proposed Grant

      1 Description of the Components Monitorable Deliverables andor Outcomes and Implementation Timetable

      Component A

      Component Name Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

      2 This JPFR grant is attached to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project which supports

      micro and SME access to term finance through (i) a partial credit guarantee facility of up to $250 million without government counterindemnity to assist Indiarsquos public sector banks with sizeable micro and SME business in raising long-term funding in international capital markets through the launch of a financial instrument partially guaranteed by ADB and (ii) a loan up to $50 million to SIDBI with a sovereign counterguarantee for onlending to micro and SMEs with 30 of the credit line to be targeted to female entrepreneurs The JPFR grant will complement the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Projectrsquos proposed approach by providing much-needed capacity-building support to low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector ADB 2010 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project Manila (approved on 26 February)

      3

      Cost ($) $130900

      Component Description This component will strengthen the ability of SIDBI and its retailers to incorporate gender and social inclusion approaches into the development of policies strategies and programs

      3 More

      specifically this will include (i) assessing existing gender policies and practices adopted

      by SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to promote gender equality and female empowerment

      4

      (ii) reviewing gender-sensitive and -inclusive programs of wholesalers and retailers to identify gaps through workshops with heads of organizations andor senior managers of SIDBI and its retailers

      (iii) revising policies and practices and reformatting relevant loan processing forms as needed to incorporate best practice standards and

      (iv) organizing initial consultations and exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to disseminate results and help institutionalize such practices (including business development reporting MampE and gender equality) for highlighting considerations of poverty social inclusion and gender equity

      Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

      Gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks documented through workshops with heads and senior management of the organizations Improved methods to institutionalize gender and socially inclusive approaches adopted as needed Exchange and lateral learning initiatives carried out among SIDBI partners through seminars and dissemination workshops

      Number of months for grant activities

      6 months

      Component B

      Component Name Training of Stakeholders Involved in Female Entrepreneurship

      Cost ($) $1269300

      Component Description SIDBI will organize training and capacity development that targets (i) the needs of SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks and (ii) low-income female microentrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

      5 This

      3 The mission of SFMC explicitly addresses the needs of women in poverty The foundationrsquos aim is to create a

      national network of strong viable and sustainable MFIs from the informal and formal financial sectors to provide microfinance services to the poor especially women Furthermore 80 of beneficiaries of SIDBI and its retailers are women To institutionalize the intent to address needs of poor women more systematically SIDBI is now committed to adopting a social inclusion and gender policy which will be developed through the interventions proposed in this grant

      4 NBFCs carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt Instead

      these institutions mobilize public savings for rendering other financial services including investment All such institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend are known as nonbanking financial intermediaries or investment institutions In addition retailers are organizations that onlend to clients thus banks are retailers Wholesalers are institutions that lend to retailers SIDBI is both a wholesaler and a retailer As a wholesaler SIDBI lends to partner organizations As a retailer it operates through its microcredit branches across India

      5 For the purpose of this grant low-income female microentrepreneurs are defined as women from households that are just above the poverty line as defined by the Government of India The unorganized sector as defined by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sectors (NCEUS) is all unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale and production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers The baseline data collection will

      4

      will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

      6 to enhance

      the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

      On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

      (i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

      (ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

      (iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

      follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

      6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

      five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

      5

      microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

      7

      On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

      (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

      retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

      Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

      Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

      Number of months for grant activities

      36 months

      Component C

      Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

      Cost ($) $414000

      Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

      (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

      7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

      business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

      6

      guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

      fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

      SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

      (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

      Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

      Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

      Number of months for grant activities

      36 months

      8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

      viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

      7

      Component D

      Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

      Cost ($) $316100

      Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

      Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

      entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

      (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

      (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

      (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

      Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

      (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

      (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

      8

      groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

      9

      Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

      10

      Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

      One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

      Number of months for grant activities

      36 months

      Component E

      Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

      Cost ($) $699889

      Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

      development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

      (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

      Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

      SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

      9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

      Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

      10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

      9

      Number of months for grant activities

      36 months

      2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

      Funding Source Amount ($)

      JFPR 3000000

      Government 108000

      Community contribution 106700

      Total 3214700

      3 Background

      1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

      11

      ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

      12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

      10

      4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

      In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

      4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

      (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

      identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

      (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

      5 Sustainability

      8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

      13

      F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

      International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

      14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

      15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

      16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

      11

      institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

      6 Participatory Approach

      9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

      and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

      Brief Description

      Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

      The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

      The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

      17

      As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

      12

      Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

      The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

      Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

      The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

      Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

      NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

      13

      relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

      Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

      7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

      14

      long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

      1 Link to ADB Strategy

      Document

      Document Number

      Date of Last

      Discussion Objective(s)

      ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

      CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

      March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

      19

      Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

      2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

      18

      The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

      19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

      15

      Year Plan (2007-2012)

      work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

      2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

      Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

      Project Number 43158-01

      Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

      Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

      3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

      4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

      1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

      2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

      This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

      5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

      18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

      16

      micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

      Agency SIDBI

      2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

      Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

      Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

      SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

      Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

      Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

      The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

      17

      unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

      proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

      3 Incremental ADB Costs

      Component Incremental Bank Cost

      Amount requested $0

      Justification Not Applicable

      Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

      4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

      Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

      Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

      Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

      Female microentrepreneurs trained

      Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

      Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

      Financial services progress reports

      Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

      5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

      Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

      FY2010 1000000

      FY2011 1000000

      FY2012 1000000

      Total Disbursements 3000000

      18

      Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

      Appendix 1 19

      DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

      Data Sources andor Reporting

      Mechanisms

      Assumptions andor Risks

      Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

      Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

      1 (20 increase from 2010

      baseline)

      Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

      Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

      Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

      Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

      Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

      Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

      Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

      Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

      1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

      2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

      Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

      Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

      20 Appendix 1

      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

      Data Sources andor Reporting

      Mechanisms

      Assumptions andor Risks

      trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

      3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

      Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

      Financial services Business processes

      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

      Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

      Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

      Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

      1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

      promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

      12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

      13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

      2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

      and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

      22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

      Appendix 1 21

      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

      Data Sources andor Reporting

      Mechanisms

      Assumptions andor Risks

      Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

      (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

      (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

      indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

      34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

      andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

      status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

      Source Asian Development Bank

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      pe

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      2

      SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

      Component A

      Institutionalization of

      Gender-related Policies

      Strategies and Programs

      Component B

      Training of Stakeholders

      Involved in Womens

      Entrepreneurship

      Component C

      Financial Services for

      Low Income

      Microentrepreneurs

      Component D

      Effective Monitoring and

      Evaluation of Results

      Component E

      Project Administration

      Implementation Support

      Monitoring and Auditing

      Total

      (Input)Percent

      1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

      2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

      3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

      4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

      5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

      Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

      Government contribution 108000 108000

      Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

      Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

      Inputs Expenditure Category

      Grant Components

      1 includes duties and taxes

      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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      3 23

      DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

      Units Per Unit US$

      AmountMethod of

      Procurement

      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

      11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

      111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

      (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

      112 Initital Consultations

      1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

      Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

      1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

      Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

      113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

      [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

      Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

      21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

      211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

      212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

      213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

      (2each)5000 5000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

      22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

      (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

      Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

      recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

      womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

      womensession $20day

      person-month

      (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

      222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

      223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

      retailersstate10800 10800

      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

      23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

      231 Recruitment of Training Institute

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

      training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

      person-month

      (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

      QBS or

      individual

      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

      CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

      Units Per Unit US$

      AmountMethod of

      Procurement

      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

      232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

      24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

      241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

      (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

      242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

      (2each) 100 9000 9000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

      Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

      243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

      (2each) 100

      90009000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

      Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

      25 Enterprise Financing

      251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

      252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

      2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

      (2each) 50

      90009000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

      Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

      Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

      32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

      assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

      person-month

      (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

      33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

      JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

      Ap

      pe

      ndix

      3 25

      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

      Units Per Unit US$

      AmountMethod of

      Procurement

      Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

      41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

      411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

      Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

      Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

      assessment)

      person-month

      (lump sum) 8

      10000 80000 80000

      412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

      Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

      (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

      Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

      Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

      42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

      Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

      Selection

      43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

      Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

      Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

      Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

      Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

      51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

      52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

      53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

      consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

      Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

      532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

      533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

      534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

      535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

      536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

      consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

      Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

      537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

      consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

      54 Equipment and supplies

      541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

      transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

      Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

      Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

      Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

      Communities

      CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

      JFPR Government Other Donors

      These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

      26 Appendix 4

      FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

      1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

      Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

      2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

      the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

      Appendix 4 27

      3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

      ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

      Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

      ADB

      $138754

      $1345458

      $438840

      $335066 Component D

      Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

      Component C Development of

      Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

      Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

      Imprest Account held at SIDBI

      Component E

      Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

      $741882

      28 Appendix 5

      IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

      A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

      1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

      Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

      Appendix 5 29

      C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

      Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

      LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

      Women Microentrepreneurs

      National Training Institutes

      National Research Institute

      SIDBI

      NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

      National Resource Organization

      Banks (including cooperative banks)

      LELAs

      Ministry of Finance

      30 Appendix 5

      D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

      2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

      Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

      Appendix 5 31

      G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

      32 Appendix 6

      SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

      India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

      LendingFinancing Modality

      Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

      Department Division

      South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

      I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

      A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

      1 About 221 million people

      (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

      2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

      power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

      3

      Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

      4

      Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

      5

      B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

      1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

      Appendix 6 33

      51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

      2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

      II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

      A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

      6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

      to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

      B Consultation and Participation

      1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

      An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

      34 Appendix 6

      through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

      2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

      Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

      3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

      C Gender and Development

      1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

      Appendix 6 35

      assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

      Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

      III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

      Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

      Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

      Involuntary Resettlement

      No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

      No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

      framework No action

      Indigenous Peoples

      Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

      No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

      framework No action

      Labor Employment

      opportunities Labor

      retrenchment Core labor

      standards

      The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

      No impact Plan Other action No action

      Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

      No impact Action No action

      36 Appendix 6

      resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

      Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

      HIVAIDS Human

      trafficking Others

      No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

      No impact Plan Other action No action

      IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

      Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

      1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

      2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

      3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

      4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

      5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

      6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

      community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

      Source Asian Development Bank

      Appendix 7 37

      OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

      4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

      38 Appendix 7

      sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

      Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

      Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

      A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

      1 Initial consultations

      Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

      Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

      SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

      2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

      20 participantsstate 100 3

      3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

      Retailers 40

      Government 20

      Donors 20

      Other stakeholders 15

      B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

      1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

      SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

      MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

      50 3

      2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

      Women microentrepreneurs

      250 participants in 5 selected States

      1200 3

      3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

      250 participants in 5 selected States

      1200 3

      4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

      Women microentrepreneurs

      250 participants in 5 selected States

      1200 3

      5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

      2 participants each Retailer (25)

      50 4

      6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

      2 participants each Retailer (25)

      50 4

      7 Enterprise financing (1)

      SIDBI 50 50 3

      Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

      Appendix 7 39

      C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

      40 Appendix 7

      grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

      600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

      person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

      Appendix 7 41

      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

      42 Appendix 7

      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

      • JFPR Grant Proposal
      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
      • Appendixes
        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

        2

        JAPAN FUND FOR POVERTY REDUCTION

        JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information

        A Other Data

        Date of Submission of Application

        20 October 2009

        Project Officer F Tornieri Social Development Specialist (Gender and Development)

        Project Officerrsquos Division E-mail Phone

        Office of the Director General South Asia Department (SARD) ftornieriadborg +632 632 5983

        Other Staff Members Who Will Need Access to Edit andor Review the Report

        S Chakravarti Senior Programs Officer India Resident Mission SARD P Marro Senior Investment Specialist SARD

        Sector (subsector) Industry and trade (SME development)

        Themes (subthemes) Economic growth (widening access to markets and economic opportunities) gender equity (economic opportunities) private sector development (private sector investment) capacity development (organizational development)

        Targeting Classification General intervention

        Was JFPR seed money used to prepare this grant proposal

        Yes [ ] No [ ]

        Have Staff Review Committee (SRC) comments been reflected in the proposal

        Yes [ ] No [ ]

        Name of Associated Asian Development Bank (ADB) Financed Operation(s)

        Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project2

        Executing Agency Ministry of Finance

        Grant Implementing Agency Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit SIDBI Tower 15 Ashok Marg Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 226001 Tel +91 522 228 8547484950 E-mail sfmcsidbiin

        B Details of the Proposed Grant

        1 Description of the Components Monitorable Deliverables andor Outcomes and Implementation Timetable

        Component A

        Component Name Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

        2 This JPFR grant is attached to the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project which supports

        micro and SME access to term finance through (i) a partial credit guarantee facility of up to $250 million without government counterindemnity to assist Indiarsquos public sector banks with sizeable micro and SME business in raising long-term funding in international capital markets through the launch of a financial instrument partially guaranteed by ADB and (ii) a loan up to $50 million to SIDBI with a sovereign counterguarantee for onlending to micro and SMEs with 30 of the credit line to be targeted to female entrepreneurs The JPFR grant will complement the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Projectrsquos proposed approach by providing much-needed capacity-building support to low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector ADB 2010 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project Manila (approved on 26 February)

        3

        Cost ($) $130900

        Component Description This component will strengthen the ability of SIDBI and its retailers to incorporate gender and social inclusion approaches into the development of policies strategies and programs

        3 More

        specifically this will include (i) assessing existing gender policies and practices adopted

        by SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to promote gender equality and female empowerment

        4

        (ii) reviewing gender-sensitive and -inclusive programs of wholesalers and retailers to identify gaps through workshops with heads of organizations andor senior managers of SIDBI and its retailers

        (iii) revising policies and practices and reformatting relevant loan processing forms as needed to incorporate best practice standards and

        (iv) organizing initial consultations and exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to disseminate results and help institutionalize such practices (including business development reporting MampE and gender equality) for highlighting considerations of poverty social inclusion and gender equity

        Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

        Gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks documented through workshops with heads and senior management of the organizations Improved methods to institutionalize gender and socially inclusive approaches adopted as needed Exchange and lateral learning initiatives carried out among SIDBI partners through seminars and dissemination workshops

        Number of months for grant activities

        6 months

        Component B

        Component Name Training of Stakeholders Involved in Female Entrepreneurship

        Cost ($) $1269300

        Component Description SIDBI will organize training and capacity development that targets (i) the needs of SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks and (ii) low-income female microentrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

        5 This

        3 The mission of SFMC explicitly addresses the needs of women in poverty The foundationrsquos aim is to create a

        national network of strong viable and sustainable MFIs from the informal and formal financial sectors to provide microfinance services to the poor especially women Furthermore 80 of beneficiaries of SIDBI and its retailers are women To institutionalize the intent to address needs of poor women more systematically SIDBI is now committed to adopting a social inclusion and gender policy which will be developed through the interventions proposed in this grant

        4 NBFCs carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt Instead

        these institutions mobilize public savings for rendering other financial services including investment All such institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend are known as nonbanking financial intermediaries or investment institutions In addition retailers are organizations that onlend to clients thus banks are retailers Wholesalers are institutions that lend to retailers SIDBI is both a wholesaler and a retailer As a wholesaler SIDBI lends to partner organizations As a retailer it operates through its microcredit branches across India

        5 For the purpose of this grant low-income female microentrepreneurs are defined as women from households that are just above the poverty line as defined by the Government of India The unorganized sector as defined by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sectors (NCEUS) is all unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale and production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers The baseline data collection will

        4

        will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

        6 to enhance

        the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

        On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

        (i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

        (ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

        (iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

        follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

        6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

        five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

        5

        microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

        7

        On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

        (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

        retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

        Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

        Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

        Number of months for grant activities

        36 months

        Component C

        Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

        Cost ($) $414000

        Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

        (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

        7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

        business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

        6

        guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

        fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

        SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

        (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

        Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

        Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

        Number of months for grant activities

        36 months

        8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

        viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

        7

        Component D

        Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

        Cost ($) $316100

        Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

        Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

        entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

        (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

        (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

        (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

        Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

        (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

        (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

        8

        groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

        9

        Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

        10

        Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

        One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

        Number of months for grant activities

        36 months

        Component E

        Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

        Cost ($) $699889

        Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

        development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

        (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

        Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

        SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

        9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

        Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

        10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

        9

        Number of months for grant activities

        36 months

        2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

        Funding Source Amount ($)

        JFPR 3000000

        Government 108000

        Community contribution 106700

        Total 3214700

        3 Background

        1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

        11

        ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

        12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

        10

        4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

        In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

        4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

        (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

        identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

        (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

        5 Sustainability

        8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

        13

        F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

        International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

        14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

        15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

        16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

        11

        institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

        6 Participatory Approach

        9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

        and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

        Brief Description

        Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

        The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

        The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

        17

        As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

        12

        Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

        The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

        Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

        The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

        Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

        NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

        13

        relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

        Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

        7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

        14

        long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

        1 Link to ADB Strategy

        Document

        Document Number

        Date of Last

        Discussion Objective(s)

        ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

        CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

        March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

        19

        Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

        2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

        18

        The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

        19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

        15

        Year Plan (2007-2012)

        work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

        2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

        Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

        Project Number 43158-01

        Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

        Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

        3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

        4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

        1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

        2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

        This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

        5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

        18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

        16

        micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

        Agency SIDBI

        2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

        Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

        Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

        SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

        Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

        Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

        The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

        17

        unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

        proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

        3 Incremental ADB Costs

        Component Incremental Bank Cost

        Amount requested $0

        Justification Not Applicable

        Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

        4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

        Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

        Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

        Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

        Female microentrepreneurs trained

        Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

        Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

        Financial services progress reports

        Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

        5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

        Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

        FY2010 1000000

        FY2011 1000000

        FY2012 1000000

        Total Disbursements 3000000

        18

        Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

        Appendix 1 19

        DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

        Data Sources andor Reporting

        Mechanisms

        Assumptions andor Risks

        Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

        Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

        1 (20 increase from 2010

        baseline)

        Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

        Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

        Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

        Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

        Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

        Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

        Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

        Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

        1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

        2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

        Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

        Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

        20 Appendix 1

        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

        Data Sources andor Reporting

        Mechanisms

        Assumptions andor Risks

        trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

        3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

        Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

        Financial services Business processes

        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

        Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

        Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

        Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

        1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

        promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

        12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

        13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

        2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

        and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

        22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

        Appendix 1 21

        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

        Data Sources andor Reporting

        Mechanisms

        Assumptions andor Risks

        Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

        (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

        (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

        indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

        34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

        andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

        status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

        Source Asian Development Bank

        22

        Ap

        pe

        ndix

        2

        SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

        Component A

        Institutionalization of

        Gender-related Policies

        Strategies and Programs

        Component B

        Training of Stakeholders

        Involved in Womens

        Entrepreneurship

        Component C

        Financial Services for

        Low Income

        Microentrepreneurs

        Component D

        Effective Monitoring and

        Evaluation of Results

        Component E

        Project Administration

        Implementation Support

        Monitoring and Auditing

        Total

        (Input)Percent

        1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

        2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

        3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

        4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

        5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

        Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

        Government contribution 108000 108000

        Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

        Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

        Inputs Expenditure Category

        Grant Components

        1 includes duties and taxes

        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

        Ap

        pe

        ndix

        3 23

        DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

        Units Per Unit US$

        AmountMethod of

        Procurement

        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

        11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

        111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

        (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

        112 Initital Consultations

        1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

        Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

        1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

        Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

        113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

        [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

        Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

        21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

        211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

        212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

        213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

        (2each)5000 5000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

        22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

        (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

        Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

        recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

        womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

        womensession $20day

        person-month

        (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

        222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

        223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

        retailersstate10800 10800

        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

        23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

        231 Recruitment of Training Institute

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

        training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

        person-month

        (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

        QBS or

        individual

        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

        CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

        24

        A

        pp

        en

        dix

        3

        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

        Units Per Unit US$

        AmountMethod of

        Procurement

        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

        232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

        24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

        241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

        (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

        242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

        (2each) 100 9000 9000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

        Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

        243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

        (2each) 100

        90009000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

        Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

        25 Enterprise Financing

        251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

        252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

        2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

        (2each) 50

        90009000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

        Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

        Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

        32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

        assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

        person-month

        (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

        33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

        JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

        Ap

        pe

        ndix

        3 25

        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

        Units Per Unit US$

        AmountMethod of

        Procurement

        Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

        41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

        411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

        Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

        Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

        assessment)

        person-month

        (lump sum) 8

        10000 80000 80000

        412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

        Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

        (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

        Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

        Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

        42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

        Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

        Selection

        43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

        Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

        Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

        Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

        Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

        51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

        52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

        53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

        consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

        Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

        532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

        533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

        534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

        535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

        536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

        consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

        Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

        537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

        consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

        54 Equipment and supplies

        541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

        transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

        Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

        Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

        Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

        Communities

        CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

        JFPR Government Other Donors

        These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

        26 Appendix 4

        FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

        1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

        Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

        2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

        the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

        Appendix 4 27

        3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

        ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

        Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

        ADB

        $138754

        $1345458

        $438840

        $335066 Component D

        Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

        Component C Development of

        Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

        Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

        Imprest Account held at SIDBI

        Component E

        Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

        $741882

        28 Appendix 5

        IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

        A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

        1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

        Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

        Appendix 5 29

        C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

        Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

        LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

        Women Microentrepreneurs

        National Training Institutes

        National Research Institute

        SIDBI

        NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

        National Resource Organization

        Banks (including cooperative banks)

        LELAs

        Ministry of Finance

        30 Appendix 5

        D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

        2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

        Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

        Appendix 5 31

        G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

        32 Appendix 6

        SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

        India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

        LendingFinancing Modality

        Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

        Department Division

        South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

        I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

        A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

        1 About 221 million people

        (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

        2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

        power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

        3

        Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

        4

        Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

        5

        B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

        1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

        Appendix 6 33

        51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

        2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

        II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

        A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

        6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

        to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

        B Consultation and Participation

        1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

        An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

        34 Appendix 6

        through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

        2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

        Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

        3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

        C Gender and Development

        1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

        Appendix 6 35

        assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

        Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

        III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

        Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

        Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

        Involuntary Resettlement

        No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

        No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

        framework No action

        Indigenous Peoples

        Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

        No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

        framework No action

        Labor Employment

        opportunities Labor

        retrenchment Core labor

        standards

        The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

        No impact Plan Other action No action

        Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

        No impact Action No action

        36 Appendix 6

        resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

        Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

        HIVAIDS Human

        trafficking Others

        No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

        No impact Plan Other action No action

        IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

        Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

        1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

        2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

        3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

        4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

        5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

        6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

        community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

        Source Asian Development Bank

        Appendix 7 37

        OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

        4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

        38 Appendix 7

        sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

        Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

        Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

        A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

        1 Initial consultations

        Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

        Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

        SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

        2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

        20 participantsstate 100 3

        3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

        Retailers 40

        Government 20

        Donors 20

        Other stakeholders 15

        B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

        1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

        SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

        MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

        50 3

        2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

        Women microentrepreneurs

        250 participants in 5 selected States

        1200 3

        3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

        250 participants in 5 selected States

        1200 3

        4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

        Women microentrepreneurs

        250 participants in 5 selected States

        1200 3

        5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

        2 participants each Retailer (25)

        50 4

        6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

        2 participants each Retailer (25)

        50 4

        7 Enterprise financing (1)

        SIDBI 50 50 3

        Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

        Appendix 7 39

        C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

        40 Appendix 7

        grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

        600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

        person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

        Appendix 7 41

        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

        (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

        (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

        I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

        (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

        (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

        J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

        (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

        42 Appendix 7

        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

        • JFPR Grant Proposal
        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
        • Appendixes
          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

          3

          Cost ($) $130900

          Component Description This component will strengthen the ability of SIDBI and its retailers to incorporate gender and social inclusion approaches into the development of policies strategies and programs

          3 More

          specifically this will include (i) assessing existing gender policies and practices adopted

          by SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to promote gender equality and female empowerment

          4

          (ii) reviewing gender-sensitive and -inclusive programs of wholesalers and retailers to identify gaps through workshops with heads of organizations andor senior managers of SIDBI and its retailers

          (iii) revising policies and practices and reformatting relevant loan processing forms as needed to incorporate best practice standards and

          (iv) organizing initial consultations and exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI its partner MFIs NBFCs and banks to disseminate results and help institutionalize such practices (including business development reporting MampE and gender equality) for highlighting considerations of poverty social inclusion and gender equity

          Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

          Gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks documented through workshops with heads and senior management of the organizations Improved methods to institutionalize gender and socially inclusive approaches adopted as needed Exchange and lateral learning initiatives carried out among SIDBI partners through seminars and dissemination workshops

          Number of months for grant activities

          6 months

          Component B

          Component Name Training of Stakeholders Involved in Female Entrepreneurship

          Cost ($) $1269300

          Component Description SIDBI will organize training and capacity development that targets (i) the needs of SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks and (ii) low-income female microentrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

          5 This

          3 The mission of SFMC explicitly addresses the needs of women in poverty The foundationrsquos aim is to create a

          national network of strong viable and sustainable MFIs from the informal and formal financial sectors to provide microfinance services to the poor especially women Furthermore 80 of beneficiaries of SIDBI and its retailers are women To institutionalize the intent to address needs of poor women more systematically SIDBI is now committed to adopting a social inclusion and gender policy which will be developed through the interventions proposed in this grant

          4 NBFCs carry out financing activities but their resources are not directly obtained from the savers as debt Instead

          these institutions mobilize public savings for rendering other financial services including investment All such institutions are financial intermediaries and when they lend are known as nonbanking financial intermediaries or investment institutions In addition retailers are organizations that onlend to clients thus banks are retailers Wholesalers are institutions that lend to retailers SIDBI is both a wholesaler and a retailer As a wholesaler SIDBI lends to partner organizations As a retailer it operates through its microcredit branches across India

          5 For the purpose of this grant low-income female microentrepreneurs are defined as women from households that are just above the poverty line as defined by the Government of India The unorganized sector as defined by the National Commission for Enterprises in the Unorganized Sectors (NCEUS) is all unincorporated private enterprises owned by individuals or households engaged in the sale and production of goods and services operated on a proprietary or partnership basis and with less than ten total workers The baseline data collection will

          4

          will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

          6 to enhance

          the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

          On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

          (i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

          (ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

          (iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

          follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

          6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

          five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

          5

          microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

          7

          On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

          (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

          retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

          Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

          Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

          Number of months for grant activities

          36 months

          Component C

          Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

          Cost ($) $414000

          Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

          (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

          7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

          business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

          6

          guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

          fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

          SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

          (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

          Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

          Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

          Number of months for grant activities

          36 months

          8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

          viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

          7

          Component D

          Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

          Cost ($) $316100

          Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

          Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

          entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

          (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

          (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

          (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

          Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

          (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

          (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

          8

          groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

          9

          Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

          10

          Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

          One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

          Number of months for grant activities

          36 months

          Component E

          Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

          Cost ($) $699889

          Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

          development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

          (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

          Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

          SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

          9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

          Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

          10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

          9

          Number of months for grant activities

          36 months

          2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

          Funding Source Amount ($)

          JFPR 3000000

          Government 108000

          Community contribution 106700

          Total 3214700

          3 Background

          1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

          11

          ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

          12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

          10

          4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

          In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

          4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

          (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

          identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

          (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

          5 Sustainability

          8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

          13

          F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

          International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

          14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

          15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

          16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

          11

          institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

          6 Participatory Approach

          9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

          and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

          Brief Description

          Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

          The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

          The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

          17

          As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

          12

          Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

          The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

          Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

          The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

          Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

          NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

          13

          relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

          Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

          7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

          14

          long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

          1 Link to ADB Strategy

          Document

          Document Number

          Date of Last

          Discussion Objective(s)

          ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

          CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

          March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

          19

          Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

          2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

          18

          The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

          19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

          15

          Year Plan (2007-2012)

          work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

          2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

          Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

          Project Number 43158-01

          Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

          Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

          3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

          4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

          1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

          2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

          This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

          5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

          18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

          16

          micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

          Agency SIDBI

          2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

          Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

          Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

          SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

          Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

          Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

          The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

          17

          unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

          proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

          3 Incremental ADB Costs

          Component Incremental Bank Cost

          Amount requested $0

          Justification Not Applicable

          Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

          4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

          Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

          Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

          Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

          Female microentrepreneurs trained

          Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

          Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

          Financial services progress reports

          Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

          5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

          Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

          FY2010 1000000

          FY2011 1000000

          FY2012 1000000

          Total Disbursements 3000000

          18

          Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

          Appendix 1 19

          DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

          Data Sources andor Reporting

          Mechanisms

          Assumptions andor Risks

          Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

          Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

          1 (20 increase from 2010

          baseline)

          Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

          Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

          Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

          Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

          Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

          Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

          Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

          Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

          1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

          2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

          Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

          Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

          20 Appendix 1

          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

          Data Sources andor Reporting

          Mechanisms

          Assumptions andor Risks

          trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

          3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

          Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

          Financial services Business processes

          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

          Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

          Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

          Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

          1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

          promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

          12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

          13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

          2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

          and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

          22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

          Appendix 1 21

          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

          Data Sources andor Reporting

          Mechanisms

          Assumptions andor Risks

          Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

          (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

          (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

          indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

          34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

          andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

          status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

          Source Asian Development Bank

          22

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          pe

          ndix

          2

          SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

          Component A

          Institutionalization of

          Gender-related Policies

          Strategies and Programs

          Component B

          Training of Stakeholders

          Involved in Womens

          Entrepreneurship

          Component C

          Financial Services for

          Low Income

          Microentrepreneurs

          Component D

          Effective Monitoring and

          Evaluation of Results

          Component E

          Project Administration

          Implementation Support

          Monitoring and Auditing

          Total

          (Input)Percent

          1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

          2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

          3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

          4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

          5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

          Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

          Government contribution 108000 108000

          Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

          Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

          Inputs Expenditure Category

          Grant Components

          1 includes duties and taxes

          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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          pe

          ndix

          3 23

          DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

          Units Per Unit US$

          AmountMethod of

          Procurement

          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

          11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

          111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

          (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

          112 Initital Consultations

          1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

          Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

          1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

          Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

          113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

          [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

          Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

          21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

          211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

          212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

          213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

          (2each)5000 5000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

          22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

          (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

          Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

          recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

          womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

          womensession $20day

          person-month

          (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

          222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

          223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

          retailersstate10800 10800

          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

          23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

          231 Recruitment of Training Institute

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

          training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

          person-month

          (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

          QBS or

          individual

          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

          CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

          Units Per Unit US$

          AmountMethod of

          Procurement

          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

          232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

          24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

          241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

          (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

          242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

          (2each) 100 9000 9000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

          Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

          243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

          (2each) 100

          90009000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

          Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

          25 Enterprise Financing

          251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

          252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

          2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

          (2each) 50

          90009000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

          Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

          Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

          32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

          assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

          person-month

          (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

          33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

          JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

          Ap

          pe

          ndix

          3 25

          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

          Units Per Unit US$

          AmountMethod of

          Procurement

          Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

          41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

          411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

          Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

          Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

          assessment)

          person-month

          (lump sum) 8

          10000 80000 80000

          412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

          Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

          (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

          Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

          Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

          42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

          Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

          Selection

          43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

          Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

          Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

          Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

          Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

          51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

          52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

          53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

          consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

          Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

          532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

          533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

          534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

          535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

          536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

          consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

          Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

          537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

          consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

          54 Equipment and supplies

          541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

          transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

          Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

          Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

          Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

          Communities

          CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

          JFPR Government Other Donors

          These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

          26 Appendix 4

          FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

          1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

          Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

          2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

          the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

          Appendix 4 27

          3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

          ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

          Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

          ADB

          $138754

          $1345458

          $438840

          $335066 Component D

          Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

          Component C Development of

          Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

          Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

          Imprest Account held at SIDBI

          Component E

          Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

          $741882

          28 Appendix 5

          IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

          A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

          1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

          Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

          Appendix 5 29

          C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

          Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

          LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

          Women Microentrepreneurs

          National Training Institutes

          National Research Institute

          SIDBI

          NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

          National Resource Organization

          Banks (including cooperative banks)

          LELAs

          Ministry of Finance

          30 Appendix 5

          D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

          2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

          Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

          Appendix 5 31

          G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

          32 Appendix 6

          SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

          India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

          LendingFinancing Modality

          Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

          Department Division

          South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

          I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

          A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

          1 About 221 million people

          (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

          2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

          power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

          3

          Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

          4

          Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

          5

          B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

          1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

          Appendix 6 33

          51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

          2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

          II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

          A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

          6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

          to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

          B Consultation and Participation

          1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

          An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

          34 Appendix 6

          through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

          2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

          Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

          3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

          C Gender and Development

          1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

          Appendix 6 35

          assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

          Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

          III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

          Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

          Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

          Involuntary Resettlement

          No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

          No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

          framework No action

          Indigenous Peoples

          Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

          No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

          framework No action

          Labor Employment

          opportunities Labor

          retrenchment Core labor

          standards

          The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

          No impact Plan Other action No action

          Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

          No impact Action No action

          36 Appendix 6

          resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

          Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

          HIVAIDS Human

          trafficking Others

          No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

          No impact Plan Other action No action

          IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

          Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

          1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

          2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

          3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

          4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

          5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

          6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

          community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

          Source Asian Development Bank

          Appendix 7 37

          OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

          4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

          38 Appendix 7

          sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

          Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

          Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

          A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

          1 Initial consultations

          Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

          Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

          SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

          2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

          20 participantsstate 100 3

          3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

          Retailers 40

          Government 20

          Donors 20

          Other stakeholders 15

          B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

          1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

          SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

          MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

          50 3

          2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

          Women microentrepreneurs

          250 participants in 5 selected States

          1200 3

          3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

          250 participants in 5 selected States

          1200 3

          4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

          Women microentrepreneurs

          250 participants in 5 selected States

          1200 3

          5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

          2 participants each Retailer (25)

          50 4

          6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

          2 participants each Retailer (25)

          50 4

          7 Enterprise financing (1)

          SIDBI 50 50 3

          Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

          Appendix 7 39

          C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

          40 Appendix 7

          grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

          600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

          person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

          Appendix 7 41

          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

          (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

          (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

          I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

          (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

          (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

          J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

          (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

          42 Appendix 7

          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

          13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

          • JFPR Grant Proposal
          • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
          • Appendixes
            • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
            • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
            • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
            • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
            • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
            • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
            • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

            4

            will involve (i) targeting women new to microentrepreneurship as well as those already informed using microfinance models

            6 to enhance

            the viability of their enterprises and their ability to access financial resources and markets through leadership and communication training financial literacy for microentrepreneurs and business development services and (ii) supporting their participation in trade fairs exhibitions buyerndashseller meets seminars and workshops to promote marketing of their products

            On the demand side for female microentrepreneurs capacity development will involve

            (i) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs This training will involve money management effectively using credit understanding the flexibility of money choosing between different credit sources and the value of financial discipline risk management and investment planning It will help transition women into mainstream financial markets where they may access banking services The training will also demonstrate the importance of financial services such as savings insurance remittances and pensions Increasing financial literacy will also tend to convert an existing need into demand by female microentrepreneurs willing to pay an appropriate market-set price for a financial service that supports their enterprise and their role in the market economy The translation of the need into demand will be documented through the methodology of the grantrsquos MampE

            (ii) Leadership and communication This training will help female entrepreneurs participate in mainstream markets and engage with different stakeholders Training will include basic computer literacy communication skills confidence building negotiating in public spaces and taking a lead in the community in building a culture of entrepreneurship The modules will focus on developing leadership so that the women transition from being sole workers within their businesses to being employers and leaders This training will include elements of self-management (eg handling stress and maintaining physical and mental health) that highlight the value of female entrepreneurs as assets in their own enterprises Socialization leads women to view themselves as being in the service of the household and their participation in market-related activities forms part of this perception Hence the training will include the building of skills to manage the challenges that they face in their multiple roles within the household and their microenterprises

            (iii) Business development training This training will develop the business management skills of female

            follow a mixed methodology of quantitative and qualitative data using selective sampling that is representative of all the models and retailer types Secondary data from sources pertinent to the states and primary data using survey methodology for socioeconomic profiling as well as interviews will be used Control groups in each state will be selected from female microentrepreneur clients of nonparticipating organizations

            6 In India MFIs adopt different methods of delivering financial services through joint liability groups which comprise

            five to seven women self-help groups which comprise 15ndash20 women Grameen groups which comprise around five to seven women activists for social alternatives groups which comprise around 15 women and individual lending The Grameen and activists for social alternatives models are replications of models in Bangladesh In this document where reference is made to MFIs it includes a variety of microfinance models

            5

            microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

            7

            On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

            (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

            retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

            Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

            Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

            Number of months for grant activities

            36 months

            Component C

            Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

            Cost ($) $414000

            Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

            (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

            7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

            business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

            6

            guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

            fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

            SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

            (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

            Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

            Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

            Number of months for grant activities

            36 months

            8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

            viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

            7

            Component D

            Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

            Cost ($) $316100

            Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

            Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

            entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

            (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

            (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

            (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

            Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

            (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

            (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

            8

            groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

            9

            Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

            10

            Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

            One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

            Number of months for grant activities

            36 months

            Component E

            Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

            Cost ($) $699889

            Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

            development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

            (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

            Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

            SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

            9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

            Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

            10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

            9

            Number of months for grant activities

            36 months

            2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

            Funding Source Amount ($)

            JFPR 3000000

            Government 108000

            Community contribution 106700

            Total 3214700

            3 Background

            1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

            11

            ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

            12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

            10

            4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

            In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

            4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

            (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

            identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

            (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

            5 Sustainability

            8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

            13

            F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

            International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

            14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

            15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

            16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

            11

            institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

            6 Participatory Approach

            9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

            and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

            Brief Description

            Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

            The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

            The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

            17

            As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

            12

            Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

            The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

            Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

            The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

            Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

            NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

            13

            relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

            Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

            7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

            14

            long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

            1 Link to ADB Strategy

            Document

            Document Number

            Date of Last

            Discussion Objective(s)

            ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

            CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

            March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

            19

            Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

            2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

            18

            The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

            19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

            15

            Year Plan (2007-2012)

            work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

            2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

            Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

            Project Number 43158-01

            Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

            Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

            3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

            4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

            1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

            2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

            This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

            5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

            18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

            16

            micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

            Agency SIDBI

            2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

            Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

            Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

            SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

            Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

            Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

            The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

            17

            unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

            proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

            3 Incremental ADB Costs

            Component Incremental Bank Cost

            Amount requested $0

            Justification Not Applicable

            Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

            4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

            Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

            Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

            Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

            Female microentrepreneurs trained

            Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

            Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

            Financial services progress reports

            Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

            5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

            Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

            FY2010 1000000

            FY2011 1000000

            FY2012 1000000

            Total Disbursements 3000000

            18

            Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

            Appendix 1 19

            DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

            Data Sources andor Reporting

            Mechanisms

            Assumptions andor Risks

            Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

            Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

            1 (20 increase from 2010

            baseline)

            Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

            Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

            Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

            Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

            Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

            Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

            Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

            Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

            1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

            2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

            Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

            Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

            20 Appendix 1

            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

            Data Sources andor Reporting

            Mechanisms

            Assumptions andor Risks

            trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

            3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

            Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

            Financial services Business processes

            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

            Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

            Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

            Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

            1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

            promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

            12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

            13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

            2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

            and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

            22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

            Appendix 1 21

            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

            Data Sources andor Reporting

            Mechanisms

            Assumptions andor Risks

            Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

            (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

            (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

            indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

            34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

            andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

            status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

            Source Asian Development Bank

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            SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

            Component A

            Institutionalization of

            Gender-related Policies

            Strategies and Programs

            Component B

            Training of Stakeholders

            Involved in Womens

            Entrepreneurship

            Component C

            Financial Services for

            Low Income

            Microentrepreneurs

            Component D

            Effective Monitoring and

            Evaluation of Results

            Component E

            Project Administration

            Implementation Support

            Monitoring and Auditing

            Total

            (Input)Percent

            1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

            2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

            3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

            4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

            5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

            Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

            Government contribution 108000 108000

            Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

            Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

            Inputs Expenditure Category

            Grant Components

            1 includes duties and taxes

            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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            DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

            Units Per Unit US$

            AmountMethod of

            Procurement

            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

            11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

            111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

            (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

            112 Initital Consultations

            1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

            Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

            1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

            Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

            113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

            [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

            Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

            21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

            211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

            212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

            213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

            (2each)5000 5000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

            22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

            (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

            Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

            recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

            womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

            womensession $20day

            person-month

            (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

            222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

            223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

            retailersstate10800 10800

            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

            23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

            231 Recruitment of Training Institute

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

            training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

            person-month

            (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

            QBS or

            individual

            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

            CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

            Units Per Unit US$

            AmountMethod of

            Procurement

            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

            232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

            24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

            241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

            (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

            242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

            (2each) 100 9000 9000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

            Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

            243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

            (2each) 100

            90009000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

            Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

            25 Enterprise Financing

            251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

            252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

            2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

            (2each) 50

            90009000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

            Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

            Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

            32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

            assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

            person-month

            (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

            33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

            JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

            Units Per Unit US$

            AmountMethod of

            Procurement

            Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

            41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

            411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

            Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

            Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

            assessment)

            person-month

            (lump sum) 8

            10000 80000 80000

            412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

            Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

            (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

            Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

            Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

            42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

            Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

            Selection

            43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

            Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

            Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

            Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

            Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

            51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

            52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

            53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

            consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

            Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

            532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

            533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

            534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

            535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

            536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

            consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

            Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

            537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

            consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

            54 Equipment and supplies

            541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

            transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

            Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

            Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

            Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

            Communities

            CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

            JFPR Government Other Donors

            These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

            26 Appendix 4

            FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

            1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

            Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

            2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

            the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

            Appendix 4 27

            3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

            ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

            Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

            ADB

            $138754

            $1345458

            $438840

            $335066 Component D

            Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

            Component C Development of

            Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

            Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

            Imprest Account held at SIDBI

            Component E

            Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

            $741882

            28 Appendix 5

            IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

            A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

            1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

            Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

            Appendix 5 29

            C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

            Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

            LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

            Women Microentrepreneurs

            National Training Institutes

            National Research Institute

            SIDBI

            NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

            National Resource Organization

            Banks (including cooperative banks)

            LELAs

            Ministry of Finance

            30 Appendix 5

            D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

            2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

            Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

            Appendix 5 31

            G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

            32 Appendix 6

            SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

            India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

            LendingFinancing Modality

            Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

            Department Division

            South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

            I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

            A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

            1 About 221 million people

            (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

            2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

            power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

            3

            Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

            4

            Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

            5

            B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

            1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

            Appendix 6 33

            51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

            2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

            II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

            A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

            6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

            to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

            B Consultation and Participation

            1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

            An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

            34 Appendix 6

            through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

            2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

            Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

            3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

            C Gender and Development

            1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

            Appendix 6 35

            assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

            Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

            III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

            Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

            Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

            Involuntary Resettlement

            No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

            No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

            framework No action

            Indigenous Peoples

            Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

            No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

            framework No action

            Labor Employment

            opportunities Labor

            retrenchment Core labor

            standards

            The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

            No impact Plan Other action No action

            Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

            No impact Action No action

            36 Appendix 6

            resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

            Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

            HIVAIDS Human

            trafficking Others

            No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

            No impact Plan Other action No action

            IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

            Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

            1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

            2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

            3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

            4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

            5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

            6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

            community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

            Source Asian Development Bank

            Appendix 7 37

            OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

            4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

            38 Appendix 7

            sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

            Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

            Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

            A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

            1 Initial consultations

            Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

            Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

            SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

            2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

            20 participantsstate 100 3

            3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

            Retailers 40

            Government 20

            Donors 20

            Other stakeholders 15

            B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

            1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

            SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

            MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

            50 3

            2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

            Women microentrepreneurs

            250 participants in 5 selected States

            1200 3

            3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

            250 participants in 5 selected States

            1200 3

            4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

            Women microentrepreneurs

            250 participants in 5 selected States

            1200 3

            5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

            2 participants each Retailer (25)

            50 4

            6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

            2 participants each Retailer (25)

            50 4

            7 Enterprise financing (1)

            SIDBI 50 50 3

            Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

            Appendix 7 39

            C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

            40 Appendix 7

            grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

            600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

            person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

            Appendix 7 41

            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

            (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

            (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

            I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

            (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

            (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

            J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

            (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

            42 Appendix 7

            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

            13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

            • JFPR Grant Proposal
            • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
            • Appendixes
              • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
              • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
              • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
              • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
              • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
              • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
              • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

              5

              microentrepreneurs and will help them use the loans and plan for sustainability and scalability If female entrepreneurs are encouraged to train other women as employees and managers in their microenterprises a positive spiral can be created Cluster-level business development training will include building better quality and methods of production accessing production and markets processing storage and marketing

              7

              On the supply sidemdashSIDBI as wholesaler and the retailers (SIDBI branches NBFCs and banks)mdashtraining activities will be carried out and include (i) gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship particularly for operations staff of wholesalers and retailers to understand gender issues and challenges and how they affect womenrsquos access to financial services and their roles as entrepreneurs

              (ii) appropriate operations to enable users (ie

              retailers) to identify suitable tools methods and financial products addressing the needs of low-income female entrepreneurs (iii) technology training specific to MampE software to enable users to monitor the grantrsquos outputs outcomes and impacts and (iv) enterprise financing to present models and effective practices

              Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

              Training initiatives organized across the five participating states Training module for SIDBI and its retailers developed About 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs trained in financial literacy for microenterprise leadership and communication and business development services Retailers and participating MFIs trained in gender microfinance and microenterprise finance technology and operations and enterprise financing

              Number of months for grant activities

              36 months

              Component C

              Component Name Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Female Microentrepreneurs

              Cost ($) $414000

              Component Description This component will support three initiatives targeting SIDBI partner MFIs interested in implementing alternative collateral schemes that address the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female microentrepreneurs in accessing financial services motivating financial institutions to explore new market segments and implementing management information system (MIS) software specific for the grant More specifically this will include

              (i) Credit guarantee fund SIDBI through its direct-lending window has been promoting collateral-free lending to all eligible entrepreneurs by extending the credit guarantee scheme of the Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro and Small Enterprises (CGTMSE) To demonstrate the viability and efficacy of extending credit to deserving low-income female entrepreneurs the costs related to the credit

              7 ―Cluster indicates a group of small firms from similar industries that team up and act as one body Creating a

              business cluster enables firms to enjoy economies of scale usually only available to bigger competitors Marketing costs can be shared and goods can be bought more cheaply There are also networking advantages in which small firms can share experiences and discuss business strategies

              6

              guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

              fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

              SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

              (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

              Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

              Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

              Number of months for grant activities

              36 months

              8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

              viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

              7

              Component D

              Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

              Cost ($) $316100

              Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

              Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

              entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

              (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

              (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

              (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

              Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

              (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

              (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

              8

              groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

              9

              Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

              10

              Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

              One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

              Number of months for grant activities

              36 months

              Component E

              Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

              Cost ($) $699889

              Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

              development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

              (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

              Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

              SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

              9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

              Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

              10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

              9

              Number of months for grant activities

              36 months

              2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

              Funding Source Amount ($)

              JFPR 3000000

              Government 108000

              Community contribution 106700

              Total 3214700

              3 Background

              1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

              11

              ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

              12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

              10

              4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

              In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

              4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

              (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

              identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

              (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

              5 Sustainability

              8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

              13

              F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

              International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

              14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

              15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

              16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

              11

              institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

              6 Participatory Approach

              9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

              and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

              Brief Description

              Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

              The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

              The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

              17

              As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

              12

              Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

              The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

              Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

              The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

              Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

              NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

              13

              relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

              Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

              7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

              14

              long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

              1 Link to ADB Strategy

              Document

              Document Number

              Date of Last

              Discussion Objective(s)

              ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

              CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

              March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

              19

              Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

              2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

              18

              The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

              19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

              15

              Year Plan (2007-2012)

              work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

              2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

              Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

              Project Number 43158-01

              Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

              Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

              3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

              4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

              1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

              2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

              This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

              5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

              18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

              16

              micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

              Agency SIDBI

              2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

              Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

              Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

              SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

              Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

              Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

              The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

              17

              unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

              proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

              3 Incremental ADB Costs

              Component Incremental Bank Cost

              Amount requested $0

              Justification Not Applicable

              Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

              4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

              Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

              Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

              Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

              Female microentrepreneurs trained

              Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

              Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

              Financial services progress reports

              Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

              5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

              Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

              FY2010 1000000

              FY2011 1000000

              FY2012 1000000

              Total Disbursements 3000000

              18

              Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

              Appendix 1 19

              DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

              Data Sources andor Reporting

              Mechanisms

              Assumptions andor Risks

              Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

              Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

              1 (20 increase from 2010

              baseline)

              Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

              Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

              Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

              Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

              Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

              Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

              Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

              Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

              1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

              2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

              Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

              Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

              20 Appendix 1

              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

              Data Sources andor Reporting

              Mechanisms

              Assumptions andor Risks

              trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

              3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

              Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

              Financial services Business processes

              4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

              Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

              Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

              Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

              1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

              promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

              12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

              13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

              2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

              and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

              22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

              Appendix 1 21

              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

              Data Sources andor Reporting

              Mechanisms

              Assumptions andor Risks

              Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

              (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

              (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

              4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

              indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

              34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

              andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

              status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

              Source Asian Development Bank

              22

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              pe

              ndix

              2

              SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

              Component A

              Institutionalization of

              Gender-related Policies

              Strategies and Programs

              Component B

              Training of Stakeholders

              Involved in Womens

              Entrepreneurship

              Component C

              Financial Services for

              Low Income

              Microentrepreneurs

              Component D

              Effective Monitoring and

              Evaluation of Results

              Component E

              Project Administration

              Implementation Support

              Monitoring and Auditing

              Total

              (Input)Percent

              1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

              2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

              3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

              4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

              5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

              Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

              Government contribution 108000 108000

              Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

              Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

              Inputs Expenditure Category

              Grant Components

              1 includes duties and taxes

              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

              Ap

              pe

              ndix

              3 23

              DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

              Units Per Unit US$

              AmountMethod of

              Procurement

              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

              11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

              111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

              (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

              112 Initital Consultations

              1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

              Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

              1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

              Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

              113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

              [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

              Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

              21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

              211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

              212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

              213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

              (2each)5000 5000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

              22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

              (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

              Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

              recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

              womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

              womensession $20day

              person-month

              (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

              222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

              223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

              retailersstate10800 10800

              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

              23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

              231 Recruitment of Training Institute

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

              training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

              person-month

              (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

              QBS or

              individual

              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

              CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

              24

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              pp

              en

              dix

              3

              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

              Units Per Unit US$

              AmountMethod of

              Procurement

              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

              232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

              24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

              241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

              (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

              242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

              (2each) 100 9000 9000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

              Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

              243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

              (2each) 100

              90009000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

              Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

              25 Enterprise Financing

              251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

              252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

              2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

              (2each) 50

              90009000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

              Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

              Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

              32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

              assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

              person-month

              (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

              33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

              JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

              Ap

              pe

              ndix

              3 25

              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

              Units Per Unit US$

              AmountMethod of

              Procurement

              Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

              41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

              411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

              Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

              Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

              assessment)

              person-month

              (lump sum) 8

              10000 80000 80000

              412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

              Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

              (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

              Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

              Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

              42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

              Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

              Selection

              43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

              Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

              Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

              Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

              Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

              51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

              52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

              53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

              consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

              Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

              532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

              533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

              534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

              535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

              536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

              consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

              Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

              537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

              consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

              54 Equipment and supplies

              541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

              transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

              Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

              Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

              Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

              Communities

              CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

              JFPR Government Other Donors

              These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

              26 Appendix 4

              FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

              1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

              Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

              2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

              the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

              Appendix 4 27

              3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

              ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

              Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

              ADB

              $138754

              $1345458

              $438840

              $335066 Component D

              Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

              Component C Development of

              Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

              Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

              Imprest Account held at SIDBI

              Component E

              Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

              $741882

              28 Appendix 5

              IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

              A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

              1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

              Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

              Appendix 5 29

              C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

              Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

              LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

              Women Microentrepreneurs

              National Training Institutes

              National Research Institute

              SIDBI

              NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

              National Resource Organization

              Banks (including cooperative banks)

              LELAs

              Ministry of Finance

              30 Appendix 5

              D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

              2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

              Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

              Appendix 5 31

              G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

              32 Appendix 6

              SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

              India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

              LendingFinancing Modality

              Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

              Department Division

              South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

              I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

              A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

              1 About 221 million people

              (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

              2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

              power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

              3

              Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

              4

              Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

              5

              B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

              1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

              Appendix 6 33

              51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

              2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

              II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

              A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

              6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

              to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

              B Consultation and Participation

              1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

              An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

              34 Appendix 6

              through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

              2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

              Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

              3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

              C Gender and Development

              1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

              Appendix 6 35

              assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

              Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

              III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

              Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

              Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

              Involuntary Resettlement

              No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

              No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

              framework No action

              Indigenous Peoples

              Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

              No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

              framework No action

              Labor Employment

              opportunities Labor

              retrenchment Core labor

              standards

              The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

              No impact Plan Other action No action

              Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

              No impact Action No action

              36 Appendix 6

              resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

              Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

              HIVAIDS Human

              trafficking Others

              No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

              No impact Plan Other action No action

              IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

              Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

              1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

              2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

              3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

              4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

              5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

              6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

              community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

              Source Asian Development Bank

              Appendix 7 37

              OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

              4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

              38 Appendix 7

              sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

              Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

              Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

              A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

              1 Initial consultations

              Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

              Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

              SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

              2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

              20 participantsstate 100 3

              3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

              Retailers 40

              Government 20

              Donors 20

              Other stakeholders 15

              B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

              1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

              SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

              MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

              50 3

              2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

              Women microentrepreneurs

              250 participants in 5 selected States

              1200 3

              3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

              250 participants in 5 selected States

              1200 3

              4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

              Women microentrepreneurs

              250 participants in 5 selected States

              1200 3

              5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

              2 participants each Retailer (25)

              50 4

              6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

              2 participants each Retailer (25)

              50 4

              7 Enterprise financing (1)

              SIDBI 50 50 3

              Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

              Appendix 7 39

              C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

              40 Appendix 7

              grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

              600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

              person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

              Appendix 7 41

              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

              (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

              (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

              I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

              (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

              (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

              J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

              (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

              42 Appendix 7

              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

              13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

              • JFPR Grant Proposal
              • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
              • Appendixes
                • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                6

                guarantee for 1200 low-income female entrepreneurs will be covered The CGTMSE will guarantee the loans on the basis of the due diligence undertaken by SIDBI SIDBI will advance the costs of the credit guarantee fees based on number of beneficiaries amount of loans and repayment period The grant will reimburse SIDBI for the cost of the guarantee

                fees8 (ii) Recruitment of livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                SIDBI will support partner MFIs to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors and to meet the cost of their salaries for 3 years These female advisors will assist in identifying female entrepreneurs for the grant Thereafter the advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit they will mentor the female entrepreneurs in their capacity development overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients as well as repayment and proper use of credit Advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lender

                (iii) Development of grant-specific software for participating retailers MIS software will support SIDBIs retailers to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information The software will be used to track qualitative and quantitative deliverables under the proposed JFPR grant for purposes of impact evaluation

                Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                Products and technologies to deliver sustained financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners (ie retailers) Business processes to reduce delivery costs of financial services to the poor developed by SIDBI partners MIS software developed for retail lenders of microcredit for microenterprise

                Number of months for grant activities

                36 months

                8 The CGTMSEmdashset up by the government and SIDBImdashaims to ensure that the lender gives importance to project

                viability and secures the credit facility purely on the primary security of the assets financed (and not based on separate collateral) If micro and small enterprises avail of a collateral-free credit facility and fail to repay the loan the CGTMSE will make good the loss incurred by the lender Any collateral-free credit extended by member lending institutions to new as well as existing micro and small enterprises (including service enterprises) will be eligible to be covered with a maximum credit ap of Rs10 million subject to the due diligence by the CGTMSE The guarantee available under the scheme will be to the extent of 75ndash80 of the sanctioned amount of the credit facility with a maximum guarantee cap of Rs625 millionndashRs650 million For microenterprises the extent of guarantee cover will be 85 for credit up to Rs500000 The extent of guarantee cover will be 80 for micro and small enterprises operated andor owned by women In case of default the CGTMSE will settle the claim of the amount with SIDBI and the other member lending institutions Low-income female entrepreneurs will benefit in their ability to access credit and the loan without collateral or third-party guarantees At the moment SIDBIrsquos prime lending (as a retailer) is estimated at 11 for amounts up to Rs200000

                7

                Component D

                Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                Cost ($) $316100

                Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

                Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

                entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

                (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

                (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

                (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

                Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

                (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

                (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

                8

                groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

                9

                Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

                10

                Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                Number of months for grant activities

                36 months

                Component E

                Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                Cost ($) $699889

                Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

                development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

                (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

                Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

                9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

                Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

                10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

                9

                Number of months for grant activities

                36 months

                2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

                Funding Source Amount ($)

                JFPR 3000000

                Government 108000

                Community contribution 106700

                Total 3214700

                3 Background

                1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

                11

                ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

                12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

                10

                4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

                In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

                4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

                (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

                identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

                (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                5 Sustainability

                8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

                13

                F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

                International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

                14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

                15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

                16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

                11

                institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                6 Participatory Approach

                9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                Brief Description

                Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                17

                As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                12

                Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                13

                relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                14

                long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                1 Link to ADB Strategy

                Document

                Document Number

                Date of Last

                Discussion Objective(s)

                ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                19

                Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                18

                The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                15

                Year Plan (2007-2012)

                work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                Project Number 43158-01

                Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                16

                micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                Agency SIDBI

                2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                17

                unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                3 Incremental ADB Costs

                Component Incremental Bank Cost

                Amount requested $0

                Justification Not Applicable

                Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                Female microentrepreneurs trained

                Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                Financial services progress reports

                Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                FY2010 1000000

                FY2011 1000000

                FY2012 1000000

                Total Disbursements 3000000

                18

                Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                Appendix 1 19

                DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                Data Sources andor Reporting

                Mechanisms

                Assumptions andor Risks

                Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                1 (20 increase from 2010

                baseline)

                Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                20 Appendix 1

                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                Data Sources andor Reporting

                Mechanisms

                Assumptions andor Risks

                trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                Financial services Business processes

                4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                Appendix 1 21

                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                Data Sources andor Reporting

                Mechanisms

                Assumptions andor Risks

                Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                Source Asian Development Bank

                22

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                pe

                ndix

                2

                SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                Component A

                Institutionalization of

                Gender-related Policies

                Strategies and Programs

                Component B

                Training of Stakeholders

                Involved in Womens

                Entrepreneurship

                Component C

                Financial Services for

                Low Income

                Microentrepreneurs

                Component D

                Effective Monitoring and

                Evaluation of Results

                Component E

                Project Administration

                Implementation Support

                Monitoring and Auditing

                Total

                (Input)Percent

                1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                Government contribution 108000 108000

                Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                Inputs Expenditure Category

                Grant Components

                1 includes duties and taxes

                JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

                Ap

                pe

                ndix

                3 23

                DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                Units Per Unit US$

                AmountMethod of

                Procurement

                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                112 Initital Consultations

                1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                (2each)5000 5000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                womensession $20day

                person-month

                (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                retailersstate10800 10800

                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                person-month

                (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                QBS or

                individual

                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                24

                A

                pp

                en

                dix

                3

                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                Units Per Unit US$

                AmountMethod of

                Procurement

                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                (2each) 100 9000 9000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                (2each) 100

                90009000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                25 Enterprise Financing

                251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                (2each) 50

                90009000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                person-month

                (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                Ap

                pe

                ndix

                3 25

                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                Units Per Unit US$

                AmountMethod of

                Procurement

                Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                assessment)

                person-month

                (lump sum) 8

                10000 80000 80000

                412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                Selection

                43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                54 Equipment and supplies

                541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                Communities

                CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                JFPR Government Other Donors

                These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                26 Appendix 4

                FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                Appendix 4 27

                3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                ADB

                $138754

                $1345458

                $438840

                $335066 Component D

                Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                Component C Development of

                Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                Component E

                Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                $741882

                28 Appendix 5

                IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                Appendix 5 29

                C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                Women Microentrepreneurs

                National Training Institutes

                National Research Institute

                SIDBI

                NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                National Resource Organization

                Banks (including cooperative banks)

                LELAs

                Ministry of Finance

                30 Appendix 5

                D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                Appendix 5 31

                G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                32 Appendix 6

                SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                LendingFinancing Modality

                Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                Department Division

                South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                1 About 221 million people

                (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                3

                Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                4

                Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                5

                B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                Appendix 6 33

                51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                B Consultation and Participation

                1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                34 Appendix 6

                through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                C Gender and Development

                1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                Appendix 6 35

                assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                Involuntary Resettlement

                No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                framework No action

                Indigenous Peoples

                Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                framework No action

                Labor Employment

                opportunities Labor

                retrenchment Core labor

                standards

                The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                No impact Plan Other action No action

                Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                No impact Action No action

                36 Appendix 6

                resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                HIVAIDS Human

                trafficking Others

                No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                No impact Plan Other action No action

                IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                Source Asian Development Bank

                Appendix 7 37

                OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                38 Appendix 7

                sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                1 Initial consultations

                Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                20 participantsstate 100 3

                3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                Retailers 40

                Government 20

                Donors 20

                Other stakeholders 15

                B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                50 3

                2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                Women microentrepreneurs

                250 participants in 5 selected States

                1200 3

                3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                250 participants in 5 selected States

                1200 3

                4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                Women microentrepreneurs

                250 participants in 5 selected States

                1200 3

                5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                50 4

                6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                50 4

                7 Enterprise financing (1)

                SIDBI 50 50 3

                Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                Appendix 7 39

                C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                40 Appendix 7

                grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                Appendix 7 41

                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                42 Appendix 7

                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                • JFPR Grant Proposal
                • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                • Appendixes
                  • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                  • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                  • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                  • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                  • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                  • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                  • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                  7

                  Component D

                  Component Name Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                  Cost ($) $316100

                  Component Description This component will support the establishment of an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities under this grant

                  Monitoring and evaluation MampE will be carried out using (i) Documentation of changes in the lives of female

                  entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers The variables will capture change in the levels of business operations and the use of the credit and capacity development given to female entrepreneurs

                  (ii) Periodic surveys with female entrepreneurs for the capacity-building training which will be monitored for comprehension retention and applicability

                  (iii) Software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises Sex-disaggregated data will track the loans given to women The software will also capture the increase in applications and the repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end

                  (iv) Application forms for the loans for microenterprise within the grant These will be aligned to the MIS software so that the data can be collected collated and monitored

                  Setting baseline and grant end data This will include setting a baseline (and collecting data) on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset which will be effectively monitored during grant implementation It will include changes in the number and percentage of female entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain changes in women or household income expenditure and consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and changes in self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by a national research institute

                  (i) Baseline assessment Samples to be taken from female entrepreneurs will include (a) types of retailers from SIDBI partners and banks (b) models of microfinance such as joint liability groups self-help groups Grameen groups activists for social alternatives groups and individual lending (c) regions ie rural urban and periurban and (d) livelihood clusters A control group that does not participate in the grant but includes clients of SIDBI partners will be taken from each participating state Quantitative methodology will include baseline surveys that capture the socioeconomic profile of the female entrepreneurs and qualitative methodology will include interviews Participatory methods will also be used with female microentrepreneurs to capture indicators of empowerment such as womenrsquos mobility decision making in households and microenterprises education of children access to markets access and control of income from microenterprises awareness of health and health-seeking behaviors access to banks and use of banking services

                  (ii) Grant end assessment A quantitative survey will use the same questions from the baseline of the sample and control

                  8

                  groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

                  9

                  Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

                  10

                  Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                  One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                  Number of months for grant activities

                  36 months

                  Component E

                  Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                  Cost ($) $699889

                  Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

                  development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

                  (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

                  Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                  SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

                  9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

                  Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

                  10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

                  9

                  Number of months for grant activities

                  36 months

                  2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

                  Funding Source Amount ($)

                  JFPR 3000000

                  Government 108000

                  Community contribution 106700

                  Total 3214700

                  3 Background

                  1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

                  11

                  ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

                  12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

                  10

                  4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

                  In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

                  4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

                  (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

                  identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

                  (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                  5 Sustainability

                  8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

                  13

                  F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

                  International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

                  14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

                  15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

                  16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

                  11

                  institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                  6 Participatory Approach

                  9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                  and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                  Brief Description

                  Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                  The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                  The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                  17

                  As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                  12

                  Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                  The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                  Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                  The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                  Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                  NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                  13

                  relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                  Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                  7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                  14

                  long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                  1 Link to ADB Strategy

                  Document

                  Document Number

                  Date of Last

                  Discussion Objective(s)

                  ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                  CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                  March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                  19

                  Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                  2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                  18

                  The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                  19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                  15

                  Year Plan (2007-2012)

                  work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                  2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                  Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                  Project Number 43158-01

                  Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                  Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                  3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                  4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                  1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                  2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                  This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                  5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                  18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                  16

                  micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                  Agency SIDBI

                  2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                  Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                  Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                  SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                  Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                  Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                  The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                  17

                  unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                  proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                  3 Incremental ADB Costs

                  Component Incremental Bank Cost

                  Amount requested $0

                  Justification Not Applicable

                  Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                  4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                  Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                  Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                  Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                  Female microentrepreneurs trained

                  Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                  Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                  Financial services progress reports

                  Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                  5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                  Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                  FY2010 1000000

                  FY2011 1000000

                  FY2012 1000000

                  Total Disbursements 3000000

                  18

                  Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                  Appendix 1 19

                  DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                  Mechanisms

                  Assumptions andor Risks

                  Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                  Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                  1 (20 increase from 2010

                  baseline)

                  Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                  Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                  Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                  Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                  Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                  Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                  Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                  Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                  1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                  2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                  Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                  Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                  20 Appendix 1

                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                  Mechanisms

                  Assumptions andor Risks

                  trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                  3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                  Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                  Financial services Business processes

                  4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                  Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                  Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                  Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                  1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                  promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                  12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                  13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                  2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                  and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                  22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                  Appendix 1 21

                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                  Mechanisms

                  Assumptions andor Risks

                  Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                  (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                  (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                  4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                  indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                  34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                  andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                  JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                  status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                  Source Asian Development Bank

                  22

                  Ap

                  pe

                  ndix

                  2

                  SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                  Component A

                  Institutionalization of

                  Gender-related Policies

                  Strategies and Programs

                  Component B

                  Training of Stakeholders

                  Involved in Womens

                  Entrepreneurship

                  Component C

                  Financial Services for

                  Low Income

                  Microentrepreneurs

                  Component D

                  Effective Monitoring and

                  Evaluation of Results

                  Component E

                  Project Administration

                  Implementation Support

                  Monitoring and Auditing

                  Total

                  (Input)Percent

                  1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                  2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                  3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                  4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                  5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                  Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                  Government contribution 108000 108000

                  Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                  Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                  Inputs Expenditure Category

                  Grant Components

                  1 includes duties and taxes

                  JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

                  Ap

                  pe

                  ndix

                  3 23

                  DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                  Units Per Unit US$

                  AmountMethod of

                  Procurement

                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                  11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                  111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                  (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                  112 Initital Consultations

                  1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                  Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                  1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                  Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                  113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                  [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                  Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                  21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                  211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                  212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                  213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                  (2each)5000 5000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                  22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                  (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                  Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                  recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                  womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                  womensession $20day

                  person-month

                  (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                  222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                  223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                  retailersstate10800 10800

                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                  23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                  231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                  training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                  person-month

                  (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                  QBS or

                  individual

                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                  CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                  24

                  A

                  pp

                  en

                  dix

                  3

                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                  Units Per Unit US$

                  AmountMethod of

                  Procurement

                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                  232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                  24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                  241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                  (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                  242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                  (2each) 100 9000 9000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                  Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                  243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                  (2each) 100

                  90009000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                  Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                  25 Enterprise Financing

                  251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                  252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                  2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                  (2each) 50

                  90009000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                  Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                  Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                  32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                  assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                  person-month

                  (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                  33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                  JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                  Ap

                  pe

                  ndix

                  3 25

                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                  Units Per Unit US$

                  AmountMethod of

                  Procurement

                  Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                  41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                  411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                  Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                  Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                  assessment)

                  person-month

                  (lump sum) 8

                  10000 80000 80000

                  412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                  Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                  (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                  Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                  Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                  42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                  Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                  Selection

                  43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                  Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                  Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                  51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                  52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                  53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                  consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                  Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                  532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                  533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                  534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                  535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                  536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                  consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                  Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                  537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                  consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                  54 Equipment and supplies

                  541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                  transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                  Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                  Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                  Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                  Communities

                  CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                  JFPR Government Other Donors

                  These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                  26 Appendix 4

                  FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                  1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                  Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                  2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                  the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                  Appendix 4 27

                  3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                  ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                  Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                  ADB

                  $138754

                  $1345458

                  $438840

                  $335066 Component D

                  Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                  Component C Development of

                  Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                  Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                  Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                  Component E

                  Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                  $741882

                  28 Appendix 5

                  IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                  A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                  1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                  Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                  Appendix 5 29

                  C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                  Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                  LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                  Women Microentrepreneurs

                  National Training Institutes

                  National Research Institute

                  SIDBI

                  NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                  National Resource Organization

                  Banks (including cooperative banks)

                  LELAs

                  Ministry of Finance

                  30 Appendix 5

                  D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                  2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                  Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                  Appendix 5 31

                  G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                  32 Appendix 6

                  SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                  India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                  LendingFinancing Modality

                  Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                  Department Division

                  South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                  I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                  A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                  1 About 221 million people

                  (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                  2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                  power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                  3

                  Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                  4

                  Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                  5

                  B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                  1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                  Appendix 6 33

                  51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                  2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                  II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                  A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                  6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                  to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                  B Consultation and Participation

                  1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                  An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                  34 Appendix 6

                  through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                  2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                  Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                  3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                  C Gender and Development

                  1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                  Appendix 6 35

                  assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                  Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                  III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                  Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                  Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                  Involuntary Resettlement

                  No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                  No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                  framework No action

                  Indigenous Peoples

                  Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                  No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                  framework No action

                  Labor Employment

                  opportunities Labor

                  retrenchment Core labor

                  standards

                  The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                  Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                  No impact Action No action

                  36 Appendix 6

                  resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                  Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                  HIVAIDS Human

                  trafficking Others

                  No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                  IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                  Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                  1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                  2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                  3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                  4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                  5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                  6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                  community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                  Source Asian Development Bank

                  Appendix 7 37

                  OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                  4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                  38 Appendix 7

                  sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                  Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                  Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                  A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                  1 Initial consultations

                  Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                  Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                  SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                  2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                  20 participantsstate 100 3

                  3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                  Retailers 40

                  Government 20

                  Donors 20

                  Other stakeholders 15

                  B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                  1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                  SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                  MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                  50 3

                  2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                  Women microentrepreneurs

                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                  1200 3

                  3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                  1200 3

                  4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                  Women microentrepreneurs

                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                  1200 3

                  5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                  50 4

                  6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                  50 4

                  7 Enterprise financing (1)

                  SIDBI 50 50 3

                  Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                  Appendix 7 39

                  C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                  40 Appendix 7

                  grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                  600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                  person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                  Appendix 7 41

                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                  (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                  (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                  I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                  (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                  (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                  J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                  (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                  42 Appendix 7

                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                  13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                  • JFPR Grant Proposal
                  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                  • Appendixes
                    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                    8

                    groups Qualitative interviews and participatory methods will capture shifts in empowerment indicators of the sample and control groups Based on innovative approaches and direct intervention supported under the grant a knowledge product will be finalized and an option paper developed to assess emerging practices and lessons learned for effective provision of financial services to female entrepreneurs in micro and small businesses The outputs of the proposed JFPR grant will be assessed discussed and reflected upon during a series of state-specific and national seminars

                    9

                    Establishment of rating system for microenterprises With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle (defined as microenterprise clients that are too small or unskilled to access more conventional financing) and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions a rating system for microenterprises will be developed which is presently an untested area Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating targeted womenrsquos microenterprises in the participating five states will also be covered The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on Use of Consultants 2007 as from time to time amended in accordance with the single source selection method

                    10

                    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                    One quality knowledge product finalized on time A final consultation at the end of five project and state workshops carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                    Number of months for grant activities

                    36 months

                    Component E

                    Component Name Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                    Cost ($) $699889

                    Component Description (i) Support operational costs of grant team (ii) provide cost of grant supervision (iii) engage the services of research institutes or capacity

                    development organizations to carry out training and publication for the grant and

                    (iv) meet institutional overheads of SIDBI

                    Monitorable Deliverables andor Outputs

                    SIDBI-financed grant activities are made operational Monthly and quarterly monitoring reports and a final evaluation report submitted to ADB and SIDBI for review and disclosure on the ADB website

                    9 This will build on SIDBI 2008 Assessing Development Impact of Micro Finance Programs Finding and Policy

                    Implications from a National Study of Indian Microfinance Sector Lucknow Under ADB 2008 Technical Assistance for Enterprise Development and the Challenge of Inclusive Growth Manila The ADB Economic Research Department is carrying out technical assistance studies to assess the two types of economic policies and strategies that are most effective in encouraging the transition of small low-productivity enterprises into higher-productivity ones The relevant section of the ADB 2009 Enterprises in Asia Fostering Dynamism in SMEs Manila will be used as reference in the initial stages of the project

                    10 SMERA is a joint initiative by SIDBI Dun amp Bradstreet Information Services India and several leading banks in India It is the countrys first rating agency to focus primarily on the Indian micro and SME segment SMERAs primary objective is to provide ratings that are comprehensive transparent and reliable This is critical to facilitate greater and easier flow of credit from the banking sector to micro and SMEs

                    9

                    Number of months for grant activities

                    36 months

                    2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

                    Funding Source Amount ($)

                    JFPR 3000000

                    Government 108000

                    Community contribution 106700

                    Total 3214700

                    3 Background

                    1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

                    11

                    ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

                    12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

                    10

                    4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

                    In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

                    4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

                    (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

                    identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

                    (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                    5 Sustainability

                    8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

                    13

                    F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

                    International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

                    14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

                    15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

                    16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

                    11

                    institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                    6 Participatory Approach

                    9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                    and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                    Brief Description

                    Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                    The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                    The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                    17

                    As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                    12

                    Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                    The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                    Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                    The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                    Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                    NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                    13

                    relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                    Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                    7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                    14

                    long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                    1 Link to ADB Strategy

                    Document

                    Document Number

                    Date of Last

                    Discussion Objective(s)

                    ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                    CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                    March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                    19

                    Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                    2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                    18

                    The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                    19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                    15

                    Year Plan (2007-2012)

                    work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                    2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                    Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                    Project Number 43158-01

                    Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                    Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                    3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                    4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                    1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                    2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                    This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                    5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                    18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                    16

                    micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                    Agency SIDBI

                    2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                    Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                    Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                    SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                    Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                    Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                    The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                    17

                    unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                    proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                    3 Incremental ADB Costs

                    Component Incremental Bank Cost

                    Amount requested $0

                    Justification Not Applicable

                    Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                    4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                    Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                    Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                    Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                    Female microentrepreneurs trained

                    Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                    Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                    Financial services progress reports

                    Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                    5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                    Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                    FY2010 1000000

                    FY2011 1000000

                    FY2012 1000000

                    Total Disbursements 3000000

                    18

                    Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                    Appendix 1 19

                    DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                    Mechanisms

                    Assumptions andor Risks

                    Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                    Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                    1 (20 increase from 2010

                    baseline)

                    Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                    Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                    Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                    Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                    Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                    Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                    Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                    Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                    1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                    2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                    Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                    Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                    20 Appendix 1

                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                    Mechanisms

                    Assumptions andor Risks

                    trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                    3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                    Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                    Financial services Business processes

                    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                    Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                    Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                    Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                    1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                    promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                    12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                    13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                    2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                    and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                    22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                    Appendix 1 21

                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                    Mechanisms

                    Assumptions andor Risks

                    Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                    (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                    (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                    indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                    34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                    andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                    status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                    Source Asian Development Bank

                    22

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                    pe

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                    2

                    SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                    Component A

                    Institutionalization of

                    Gender-related Policies

                    Strategies and Programs

                    Component B

                    Training of Stakeholders

                    Involved in Womens

                    Entrepreneurship

                    Component C

                    Financial Services for

                    Low Income

                    Microentrepreneurs

                    Component D

                    Effective Monitoring and

                    Evaluation of Results

                    Component E

                    Project Administration

                    Implementation Support

                    Monitoring and Auditing

                    Total

                    (Input)Percent

                    1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                    2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                    3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                    4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                    5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                    Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                    Government contribution 108000 108000

                    Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                    Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                    Inputs Expenditure Category

                    Grant Components

                    1 includes duties and taxes

                    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                    DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                    Units Per Unit US$

                    AmountMethod of

                    Procurement

                    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                    11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                    111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                    (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                    112 Initital Consultations

                    1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                    Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                    1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                    Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                    113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                    [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                    Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                    21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                    211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                    212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                    213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                    (2each)5000 5000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                    22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                    (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                    Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                    recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                    womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                    womensession $20day

                    person-month

                    (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                    222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                    223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                    retailersstate10800 10800

                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                    23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                    231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                    training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                    person-month

                    (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                    QBS or

                    individual

                    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                    CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                    24

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                    pp

                    en

                    dix

                    3

                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                    Units Per Unit US$

                    AmountMethod of

                    Procurement

                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                    232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                    24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                    241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                    (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                    242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                    (2each) 100 9000 9000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                    Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                    243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                    (2each) 100

                    90009000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                    Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                    25 Enterprise Financing

                    251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                    252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                    2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                    (2each) 50

                    90009000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                    Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                    Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                    32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                    assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                    person-month

                    (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                    33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                    JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                    3 25

                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                    Units Per Unit US$

                    AmountMethod of

                    Procurement

                    Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                    41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                    411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                    Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                    Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                    assessment)

                    person-month

                    (lump sum) 8

                    10000 80000 80000

                    412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                    Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                    (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                    Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                    Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                    42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                    Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                    Selection

                    43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                    Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                    Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                    51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                    52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                    53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                    consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                    Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                    532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                    533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                    534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                    535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                    536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                    consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                    Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                    537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                    consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                    54 Equipment and supplies

                    541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                    transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                    Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                    Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                    Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                    Communities

                    CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                    JFPR Government Other Donors

                    These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                    26 Appendix 4

                    FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                    1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                    Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                    2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                    the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                    Appendix 4 27

                    3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                    ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                    Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                    ADB

                    $138754

                    $1345458

                    $438840

                    $335066 Component D

                    Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                    Component C Development of

                    Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                    Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                    Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                    Component E

                    Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                    $741882

                    28 Appendix 5

                    IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                    A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                    1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                    Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                    Appendix 5 29

                    C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                    Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                    LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                    Women Microentrepreneurs

                    National Training Institutes

                    National Research Institute

                    SIDBI

                    NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                    National Resource Organization

                    Banks (including cooperative banks)

                    LELAs

                    Ministry of Finance

                    30 Appendix 5

                    D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                    2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                    Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                    Appendix 5 31

                    G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                    32 Appendix 6

                    SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                    India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                    LendingFinancing Modality

                    Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                    Department Division

                    South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                    I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                    A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                    1 About 221 million people

                    (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                    2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                    power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                    3

                    Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                    4

                    Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                    5

                    B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                    1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                    Appendix 6 33

                    51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                    2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                    II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                    A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                    6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                    to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                    B Consultation and Participation

                    1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                    An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                    34 Appendix 6

                    through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                    2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                    Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                    3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                    C Gender and Development

                    1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                    Appendix 6 35

                    assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                    Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                    III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                    Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                    Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                    Involuntary Resettlement

                    No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                    No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                    framework No action

                    Indigenous Peoples

                    Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                    No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                    framework No action

                    Labor Employment

                    opportunities Labor

                    retrenchment Core labor

                    standards

                    The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                    Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                    No impact Action No action

                    36 Appendix 6

                    resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                    Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                    HIVAIDS Human

                    trafficking Others

                    No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                    IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                    Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                    1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                    2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                    3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                    4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                    5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                    6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                    community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                    Source Asian Development Bank

                    Appendix 7 37

                    OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                    4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                    38 Appendix 7

                    sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                    Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                    Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                    A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                    1 Initial consultations

                    Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                    Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                    SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                    2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                    20 participantsstate 100 3

                    3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                    Retailers 40

                    Government 20

                    Donors 20

                    Other stakeholders 15

                    B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                    1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                    SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                    MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                    50 3

                    2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                    Women microentrepreneurs

                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                    1200 3

                    3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                    1200 3

                    4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                    Women microentrepreneurs

                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                    1200 3

                    5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                    50 4

                    6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                    50 4

                    7 Enterprise financing (1)

                    SIDBI 50 50 3

                    Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                    Appendix 7 39

                    C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                    40 Appendix 7

                    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                    Appendix 7 41

                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                    42 Appendix 7

                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                    • JFPR Grant Proposal
                    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                    • Appendixes
                      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                      9

                      Number of months for grant activities

                      36 months

                      2 Financing Plan for Proposed Grant to be Supported by JFPR

                      Funding Source Amount ($)

                      JFPR 3000000

                      Government 108000

                      Community contribution 106700

                      Total 3214700

                      3 Background

                      1 Low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector are defined as microborrowers whose businesses have grown too large for traditional microfinance support but whose activities are still too limited or who lack skills and capacity to access more conventional bank financing This grant identifies this target groupmdashin relatively lagging states in Indiamdashas having loan requirements of Rs50000ndashRs1000000 2 In India various financing schemes target microcredit to the SME sector through which poor individuals and households in the unorganized sector can access microcredit programs and providers11 However MFIs are less capable of supporting their clients once the clients reach a certain size due to limited resources compared to mainstream financial institutions Because of the recent global economic crisis the needs of those who have moved to the missing middle segment must be addressed Although the crisis has been felt by all segments of the poor the missing middle has suffered particularly Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors indicates that the crisis has worsened the already acute shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs who are predominantly female A recent study conducted by the Self Employed Womenrsquos Association in Ahmadabad shows that the crisis has led to a decline in the income of poor unorganized-sector workers12 This is due to closure of various small-scale industries decline in wages and reduction in working hours The crisis has also affected nutritional standards and health increased livelihood insecurity forced sales of household small assets and led to a high level of migration 3 Thus female microentrepreneurs who have reached the position of the missing middle are in danger of losing recent gains in their incomes their assets and the enterprises that have moved them beyond microcredit Further the crisis could shrink employment opportunities and lead men to migrate away from their home areas in search of economic opportunities Women left behind would then have to shoulder the responsibility of the household which may negatively affect their enterprises if they have less time and fewer resources to devote to their businesses A backslide could cause closure of small and micro-sized businesses and migration of female entrepreneurs themselves in search of employment (footnote 16)

                      11

                      ―Microfinance refers to the provision of financial services to low-income clients including consumers and the self-employed A part of the field of microfinance ―microcredit is the provision of credit services to low-income entrepreneurs

                      12 Self Employed Womenrsquos Association 2009 Financial Crises and Employment Meltdown in Informal Economy SEWArsquos Experience and Implications Ahmadabad

                      10

                      4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

                      In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

                      4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

                      (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

                      identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

                      (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                      5 Sustainability

                      8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

                      13

                      F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

                      International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

                      14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

                      15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

                      16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

                      11

                      institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                      6 Participatory Approach

                      9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                      and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                      Brief Description

                      Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                      The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                      The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                      17

                      As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                      12

                      Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                      The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                      Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                      The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                      Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                      NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                      13

                      relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                      Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                      7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                      14

                      long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                      1 Link to ADB Strategy

                      Document

                      Document Number

                      Date of Last

                      Discussion Objective(s)

                      ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                      CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                      March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                      19

                      Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                      2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                      18

                      The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                      19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                      15

                      Year Plan (2007-2012)

                      work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                      2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                      Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                      Project Number 43158-01

                      Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                      Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                      3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                      4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                      1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                      2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                      This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                      5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                      18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                      16

                      micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                      Agency SIDBI

                      2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                      Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                      Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                      SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                      Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                      Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                      The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                      17

                      unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                      proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                      3 Incremental ADB Costs

                      Component Incremental Bank Cost

                      Amount requested $0

                      Justification Not Applicable

                      Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                      4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                      Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                      Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                      Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                      Female microentrepreneurs trained

                      Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                      Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                      Financial services progress reports

                      Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                      5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                      Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                      FY2010 1000000

                      FY2011 1000000

                      FY2012 1000000

                      Total Disbursements 3000000

                      18

                      Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                      Appendix 1 19

                      DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                      Mechanisms

                      Assumptions andor Risks

                      Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                      Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                      1 (20 increase from 2010

                      baseline)

                      Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                      Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                      Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                      Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                      Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                      Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                      Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                      Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                      1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                      2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                      Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                      Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                      20 Appendix 1

                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                      Mechanisms

                      Assumptions andor Risks

                      trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                      3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                      Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                      Financial services Business processes

                      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                      Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                      Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                      Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                      1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                      promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                      12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                      13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                      2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                      and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                      22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                      Appendix 1 21

                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                      Mechanisms

                      Assumptions andor Risks

                      Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                      (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                      (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                      indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                      34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                      andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                      status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                      Source Asian Development Bank

                      22

                      Ap

                      pe

                      ndix

                      2

                      SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                      Component A

                      Institutionalization of

                      Gender-related Policies

                      Strategies and Programs

                      Component B

                      Training of Stakeholders

                      Involved in Womens

                      Entrepreneurship

                      Component C

                      Financial Services for

                      Low Income

                      Microentrepreneurs

                      Component D

                      Effective Monitoring and

                      Evaluation of Results

                      Component E

                      Project Administration

                      Implementation Support

                      Monitoring and Auditing

                      Total

                      (Input)Percent

                      1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                      2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                      3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                      4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                      5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                      Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                      Government contribution 108000 108000

                      Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                      Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                      Inputs Expenditure Category

                      Grant Components

                      1 includes duties and taxes

                      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

                      Ap

                      pe

                      ndix

                      3 23

                      DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                      Units Per Unit US$

                      AmountMethod of

                      Procurement

                      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                      11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                      111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                      (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                      112 Initital Consultations

                      1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                      Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                      1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                      Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                      113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                      [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                      Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                      21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                      211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                      212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                      213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                      (2each)5000 5000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                      22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                      (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                      Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                      recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                      womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                      womensession $20day

                      person-month

                      (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                      222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                      223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                      retailersstate10800 10800

                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                      23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                      231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                      training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                      person-month

                      (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                      QBS or

                      individual

                      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                      CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                      24

                      A

                      pp

                      en

                      dix

                      3

                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                      Units Per Unit US$

                      AmountMethod of

                      Procurement

                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                      232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                      24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                      241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                      (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                      242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                      (2each) 100 9000 9000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                      Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                      243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                      (2each) 100

                      90009000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                      Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                      25 Enterprise Financing

                      251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                      252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                      2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                      (2each) 50

                      90009000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                      Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                      Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                      32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                      assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                      person-month

                      (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                      33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                      JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                      Ap

                      pe

                      ndix

                      3 25

                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                      Units Per Unit US$

                      AmountMethod of

                      Procurement

                      Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                      41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                      411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                      Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                      Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                      assessment)

                      person-month

                      (lump sum) 8

                      10000 80000 80000

                      412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                      Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                      (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                      Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                      Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                      42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                      Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                      Selection

                      43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                      Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                      Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                      51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                      52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                      53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                      consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                      Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                      532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                      533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                      534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                      535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                      536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                      consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                      Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                      537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                      consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                      54 Equipment and supplies

                      541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                      transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                      Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                      Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                      Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                      Communities

                      CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                      JFPR Government Other Donors

                      These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                      26 Appendix 4

                      FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                      1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                      Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                      2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                      the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                      Appendix 4 27

                      3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                      ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                      Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                      ADB

                      $138754

                      $1345458

                      $438840

                      $335066 Component D

                      Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                      Component C Development of

                      Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                      Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                      Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                      Component E

                      Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                      $741882

                      28 Appendix 5

                      IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                      A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                      1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                      Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                      Appendix 5 29

                      C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                      Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                      LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                      Women Microentrepreneurs

                      National Training Institutes

                      National Research Institute

                      SIDBI

                      NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                      National Resource Organization

                      Banks (including cooperative banks)

                      LELAs

                      Ministry of Finance

                      30 Appendix 5

                      D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                      2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                      Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                      Appendix 5 31

                      G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                      32 Appendix 6

                      SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                      India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                      LendingFinancing Modality

                      Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                      Department Division

                      South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                      I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                      A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                      1 About 221 million people

                      (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                      2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                      power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                      3

                      Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                      4

                      Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                      5

                      B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                      1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                      Appendix 6 33

                      51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                      2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                      II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                      A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                      6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                      to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                      B Consultation and Participation

                      1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                      An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                      34 Appendix 6

                      through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                      2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                      Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                      3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                      C Gender and Development

                      1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                      Appendix 6 35

                      assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                      Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                      III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                      Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                      Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                      Involuntary Resettlement

                      No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                      No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                      framework No action

                      Indigenous Peoples

                      Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                      No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                      framework No action

                      Labor Employment

                      opportunities Labor

                      retrenchment Core labor

                      standards

                      The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                      Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                      No impact Action No action

                      36 Appendix 6

                      resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                      Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                      HIVAIDS Human

                      trafficking Others

                      No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                      IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                      Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                      1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                      2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                      3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                      4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                      5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                      6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                      community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                      Source Asian Development Bank

                      Appendix 7 37

                      OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                      4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                      38 Appendix 7

                      sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                      Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                      Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                      A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                      1 Initial consultations

                      Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                      Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                      SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                      2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                      20 participantsstate 100 3

                      3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                      Retailers 40

                      Government 20

                      Donors 20

                      Other stakeholders 15

                      B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                      1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                      SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                      MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                      50 3

                      2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                      Women microentrepreneurs

                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                      1200 3

                      3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                      1200 3

                      4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                      Women microentrepreneurs

                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                      1200 3

                      5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                      50 4

                      6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                      50 4

                      7 Enterprise financing (1)

                      SIDBI 50 50 3

                      Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                      Appendix 7 39

                      C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                      40 Appendix 7

                      grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                      600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                      person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                      Appendix 7 41

                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                      42 Appendix 7

                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                      • JFPR Grant Proposal
                      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                      • Appendixes
                        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                        10

                        4 While it would be possible to collect further data on women entrepreneurs in the five states within the grant time is critical under these financial circumstances Hence it is proposed instead to use this time to support and consolidate the gains of the women of the missing middle Under these circumstances nurturing womenrsquos microenterprises will lead to self-sufficiency that can stabilize poor families 5 However credit alone will not assist womenrsquos entrepreneurship or nurture its potential to empower low-income women it must be accompanied with adequate and sensitively designed training programs A study of the impact of training on womens microenterprise development demonstrated the impact of training in four areas income access and control of resources status and quality of life in Ethiopia India Peru and Sudan13 The findings showed that low-income women need training to develop skills and self-confidence to operate and survive in the unorganized sector Consequently the need to support capacity-development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of this grant 6 Rationale and assumption for the proposed gender focus14

                        In India evidence suggests that gender inequities hinder womens access to information business and financial services There is a growing realization that MFIs involved in the promotion of female entrepreneurship should develop strategies to mainstream gender issues and approaches in business development more forcefully15 Against this backdrop the grant aims to work with SIDBI in challenging the common erroneous assumptions that provision of credit alone can produce successful microenterprises for women and that credit is the main financial service needed by the poor In fact capacity development is essential while the poor require financial services tailored to facilitating highly desired and needed microsavings microinsurance and micro-money transfer products16

                        4 Innovation 7 The grant will have several innovative features including

                        (i) encouraging collateral-free lending to female microentrepreneurs (ii) developing an integrated approach to microenterprise development through the

                        identification of livelihood opportunities selection and motivation of female microentrepreneurs provision of business and technical training and establishment of market links for inputs and outputs and

                        (iii) developing a cadre of female enterprise promoters and developers known as livelihood enterprise learning advisors

                        5 Sustainability

                        8 The grant aims to facilitate access by poor female microentrepreneurs to an appropriate range of information and services that support microcredit On the demand side the grant will

                        13

                        F Leach et al 2000 The Impact of Training on Womens Micro-Enterprise Development London Department for

                        International Development of the United Kingdom Also available httpwwwmicrofinancegatewayorgpsitemtemplaterc1930939

                        14 Based on the highly specialized nature of the assignments the quality-based selection method is proposed to be used for the selection of national research resource and training institutes Technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal

                        15 J Deshmukh-Ranadive 2008 From Transactions to Transformations in Microfinance Collapsing the Divide between the Economic and the Social Ahmadabad Indian School of Microfinance for Women

                        16 See Twine 2009 Vijay Mahajan speaks about new economics and microfinance httpwwwtwinecom item1272bdy42-7vvijay-mahajan-speaks-about-new-economics-and-micro-finance

                        11

                        institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                        6 Participatory Approach

                        9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                        and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                        Brief Description

                        Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                        The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                        The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                        17

                        As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                        12

                        Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                        The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                        Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                        The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                        Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                        NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                        13

                        relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                        Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                        7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                        14

                        long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                        1 Link to ADB Strategy

                        Document

                        Document Number

                        Date of Last

                        Discussion Objective(s)

                        ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                        CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                        March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                        19

                        Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                        2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                        18

                        The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                        19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                        15

                        Year Plan (2007-2012)

                        work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                        2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                        Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                        Project Number 43158-01

                        Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                        Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                        3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                        4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                        1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                        2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                        This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                        5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                        18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                        16

                        micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                        Agency SIDBI

                        2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                        Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                        Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                        SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                        Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                        Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                        The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                        17

                        unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                        proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                        3 Incremental ADB Costs

                        Component Incremental Bank Cost

                        Amount requested $0

                        Justification Not Applicable

                        Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                        4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                        Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                        Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                        Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                        Female microentrepreneurs trained

                        Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                        Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                        Financial services progress reports

                        Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                        5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                        Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                        FY2010 1000000

                        FY2011 1000000

                        FY2012 1000000

                        Total Disbursements 3000000

                        18

                        Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                        Appendix 1 19

                        DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                        Mechanisms

                        Assumptions andor Risks

                        Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                        Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                        1 (20 increase from 2010

                        baseline)

                        Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                        Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                        Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                        Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                        Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                        Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                        Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                        Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                        1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                        2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                        Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                        Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                        20 Appendix 1

                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                        Mechanisms

                        Assumptions andor Risks

                        trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                        3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                        Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                        Financial services Business processes

                        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                        Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                        Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                        Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                        1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                        promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                        12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                        13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                        2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                        and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                        22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                        Appendix 1 21

                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                        Mechanisms

                        Assumptions andor Risks

                        Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                        (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                        (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                        indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                        34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                        andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                        status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                        Source Asian Development Bank

                        22

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                        SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                        Component A

                        Institutionalization of

                        Gender-related Policies

                        Strategies and Programs

                        Component B

                        Training of Stakeholders

                        Involved in Womens

                        Entrepreneurship

                        Component C

                        Financial Services for

                        Low Income

                        Microentrepreneurs

                        Component D

                        Effective Monitoring and

                        Evaluation of Results

                        Component E

                        Project Administration

                        Implementation Support

                        Monitoring and Auditing

                        Total

                        (Input)Percent

                        1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                        2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                        3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                        4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                        5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                        Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                        Government contribution 108000 108000

                        Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                        Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                        Inputs Expenditure Category

                        Grant Components

                        1 includes duties and taxes

                        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                        DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                        Units Per Unit US$

                        AmountMethod of

                        Procurement

                        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                        11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                        111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                        (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                        112 Initital Consultations

                        1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                        Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                        1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                        Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                        113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                        [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                        Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                        21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                        211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                        212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                        213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                        (2each)5000 5000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                        22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                        (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                        Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                        recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                        womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                        womensession $20day

                        person-month

                        (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                        222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                        223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                        retailersstate10800 10800

                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                        23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                        231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                        training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                        person-month

                        (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                        QBS or

                        individual

                        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                        CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                        24

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                        3

                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                        Units Per Unit US$

                        AmountMethod of

                        Procurement

                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                        232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                        24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                        241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                        (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                        242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                        (2each) 100 9000 9000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                        Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                        243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                        (2each) 100

                        90009000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                        Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                        25 Enterprise Financing

                        251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                        252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                        2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                        (2each) 50

                        90009000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                        Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                        Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                        32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                        assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                        person-month

                        (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                        33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                        JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                        Units Per Unit US$

                        AmountMethod of

                        Procurement

                        Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                        41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                        411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                        Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                        Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                        assessment)

                        person-month

                        (lump sum) 8

                        10000 80000 80000

                        412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                        Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                        (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                        Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                        Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                        42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                        Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                        Selection

                        43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                        Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                        Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                        51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                        52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                        53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                        consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                        Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                        532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                        533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                        534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                        535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                        536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                        consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                        Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                        537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                        consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                        54 Equipment and supplies

                        541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                        transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                        Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                        Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                        Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                        Communities

                        CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                        JFPR Government Other Donors

                        These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                        26 Appendix 4

                        FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                        1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                        Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                        2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                        the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                        Appendix 4 27

                        3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                        ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                        Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                        ADB

                        $138754

                        $1345458

                        $438840

                        $335066 Component D

                        Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                        Component C Development of

                        Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                        Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                        Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                        Component E

                        Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                        $741882

                        28 Appendix 5

                        IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                        A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                        1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                        Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                        Appendix 5 29

                        C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                        Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                        LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                        Women Microentrepreneurs

                        National Training Institutes

                        National Research Institute

                        SIDBI

                        NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                        National Resource Organization

                        Banks (including cooperative banks)

                        LELAs

                        Ministry of Finance

                        30 Appendix 5

                        D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                        2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                        Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                        Appendix 5 31

                        G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                        32 Appendix 6

                        SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                        India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                        LendingFinancing Modality

                        Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                        Department Division

                        South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                        I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                        A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                        1 About 221 million people

                        (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                        2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                        power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                        3

                        Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                        4

                        Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                        5

                        B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                        1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                        Appendix 6 33

                        51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                        2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                        II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                        A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                        6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                        to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                        B Consultation and Participation

                        1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                        An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                        34 Appendix 6

                        through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                        2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                        Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                        3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                        C Gender and Development

                        1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                        Appendix 6 35

                        assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                        Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                        III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                        Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                        Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                        Involuntary Resettlement

                        No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                        No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                        framework No action

                        Indigenous Peoples

                        Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                        No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                        framework No action

                        Labor Employment

                        opportunities Labor

                        retrenchment Core labor

                        standards

                        The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                        Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                        No impact Action No action

                        36 Appendix 6

                        resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                        Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                        HIVAIDS Human

                        trafficking Others

                        No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                        IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                        Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                        1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                        2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                        3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                        4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                        5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                        6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                        community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                        Source Asian Development Bank

                        Appendix 7 37

                        OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                        4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                        38 Appendix 7

                        sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                        Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                        Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                        A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                        1 Initial consultations

                        Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                        Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                        SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                        2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                        20 participantsstate 100 3

                        3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                        Retailers 40

                        Government 20

                        Donors 20

                        Other stakeholders 15

                        B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                        1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                        SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                        MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                        50 3

                        2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                        Women microentrepreneurs

                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                        1200 3

                        3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                        1200 3

                        4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                        Women microentrepreneurs

                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                        1200 3

                        5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                        50 4

                        6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                        50 4

                        7 Enterprise financing (1)

                        SIDBI 50 50 3

                        Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                        Appendix 7 39

                        C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                        40 Appendix 7

                        grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                        600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                        person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                        Appendix 7 41

                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                        (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                        (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                        I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                        (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                        (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                        J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                        (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                        42 Appendix 7

                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                        • JFPR Grant Proposal
                        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                        • Appendixes
                          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                          11

                          institutionalizemdashand therefore introduce on a long-term sustainable basismdashgender-related policies for microfinance On the supply side it would introduce sustainable improvements through capacity development by developing financial literacy leadership and communication skills and business development training for the target microentrepreneurs The proposed intervention would be a very innovative program combining lending and grant methods and dovetailing it with gender- and poverty-focused capacity development for some of the poorest and most vulnerable women

                          6 Participatory Approach

                          9 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant central and state government agencies and through iterative consultations with the gender andor womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce andmdashon the national levelmdashnongovernment organizations (NGOs) A national research institute will be subcontracted by SIDBI to develop a baseline collect and analyze relevant information and data in the selected states and support SIDBI in monitoring the set of agreed targets Training and capacity-building organizations will be subcontracted by SIDBI to carry out the range of financial literacy business development services and other related training activities to be financed under the grant In this respect consultation andor possible involvement of ADB Economics and Research Department will be sought in developing the MampE component 10 The ADB team met with the Embassy of Japan and the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project (footnote 2) on 2 September and 21 October 2009 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the proposed JFPR grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income female entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed interventions to the selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects All of these issues are reflected in the design of the proposed JFPR grant Primary Beneficiaries and Other Affected Groups

                          and Relevant Description Other Key Stakeholders and

                          Brief Description

                          Low-income women microentrepreneurs17

                          The primary beneficiaries will be low-income female entrepreneurs The proposed JFPR grant will target the specific needs and constraints faced by the missing middle of low-income beneficiaries who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal finance sector Training and capacity-building initiatives will benefit Estimated numbers (training and capacity development) 1200 Estimated numbers (credit guarantee scheme) 1200

                          The Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises has been implementing trade-related entrepreneurship assistance and development schemes to develop womens entrepreneurial skills with a focus on nonfarm activities This model provides an interesting approach which will be assessed during implementation of the proposed JFPR grant

                          17

                          As part of ADBs Micro Small and Medium Enterprise Development Project the number of low-income female microentrepreneurs ranges from 25000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs100000 each) 20000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amounts of Rs200000 each) and 10000 beneficiaries (estimated loan amount of Rs400000 each)

                          12

                          Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                          The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                          Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                          The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                          Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                          NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                          13

                          relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                          Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                          7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                          14

                          long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                          1 Link to ADB Strategy

                          Document

                          Document Number

                          Date of Last

                          Discussion Objective(s)

                          ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                          CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                          March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                          19

                          Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                          2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                          18

                          The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                          19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                          15

                          Year Plan (2007-2012)

                          work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                          2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                          Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                          Project Number 43158-01

                          Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                          Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                          3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                          4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                          1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                          2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                          This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                          5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                          18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                          16

                          micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                          Agency SIDBI

                          2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                          Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                          Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                          SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                          Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                          Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                          The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                          17

                          unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                          proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                          3 Incremental ADB Costs

                          Component Incremental Bank Cost

                          Amount requested $0

                          Justification Not Applicable

                          Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                          4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                          Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                          Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                          Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                          Female microentrepreneurs trained

                          Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                          Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                          Financial services progress reports

                          Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                          5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                          Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                          FY2010 1000000

                          FY2011 1000000

                          FY2012 1000000

                          Total Disbursements 3000000

                          18

                          Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                          Appendix 1 19

                          DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                          Mechanisms

                          Assumptions andor Risks

                          Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                          Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                          1 (20 increase from 2010

                          baseline)

                          Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                          Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                          Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                          Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                          Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                          Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                          Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                          Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                          1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                          2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                          Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                          Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                          20 Appendix 1

                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                          Mechanisms

                          Assumptions andor Risks

                          trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                          3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                          Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                          Financial services Business processes

                          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                          Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                          Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                          Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                          1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                          promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                          12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                          13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                          2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                          and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                          22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                          Appendix 1 21

                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                          Mechanisms

                          Assumptions andor Risks

                          Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                          (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                          (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                          indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                          34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                          andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                          status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                          Source Asian Development Bank

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                          SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                          Component A

                          Institutionalization of

                          Gender-related Policies

                          Strategies and Programs

                          Component B

                          Training of Stakeholders

                          Involved in Womens

                          Entrepreneurship

                          Component C

                          Financial Services for

                          Low Income

                          Microentrepreneurs

                          Component D

                          Effective Monitoring and

                          Evaluation of Results

                          Component E

                          Project Administration

                          Implementation Support

                          Monitoring and Auditing

                          Total

                          (Input)Percent

                          1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                          2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                          3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                          4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                          5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                          Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                          Government contribution 108000 108000

                          Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                          Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                          Inputs Expenditure Category

                          Grant Components

                          1 includes duties and taxes

                          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                          DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                          Units Per Unit US$

                          AmountMethod of

                          Procurement

                          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                          11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                          111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                          (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                          112 Initital Consultations

                          1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                          Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                          1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                          Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                          113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                          [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                          Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                          21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                          211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                          212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                          213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                          (2each)5000 5000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                          22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                          (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                          Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                          recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                          womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                          womensession $20day

                          person-month

                          (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                          222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                          223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                          retailersstate10800 10800

                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                          23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                          231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                          training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                          person-month

                          (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                          QBS or

                          individual

                          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                          CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                          Units Per Unit US$

                          AmountMethod of

                          Procurement

                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                          232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                          24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                          241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                          (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                          242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                          (2each) 100 9000 9000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                          Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                          243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                          (2each) 100

                          90009000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                          Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                          25 Enterprise Financing

                          251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                          252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                          2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                          (2each) 50

                          90009000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                          Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                          Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                          32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                          assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                          person-month

                          (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                          33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                          JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                          Units Per Unit US$

                          AmountMethod of

                          Procurement

                          Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                          41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                          411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                          Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                          Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                          assessment)

                          person-month

                          (lump sum) 8

                          10000 80000 80000

                          412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                          Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                          (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                          Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                          Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                          42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                          Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                          Selection

                          43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                          Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                          Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                          51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                          52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                          53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                          consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                          Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                          532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                          533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                          534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                          535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                          536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                          consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                          Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                          537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                          consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                          54 Equipment and supplies

                          541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                          transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                          Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                          Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                          Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                          Communities

                          CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                          JFPR Government Other Donors

                          These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                          26 Appendix 4

                          FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                          1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                          Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                          2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                          the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                          Appendix 4 27

                          3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                          ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                          Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                          ADB

                          $138754

                          $1345458

                          $438840

                          $335066 Component D

                          Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                          Component C Development of

                          Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                          Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                          Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                          Component E

                          Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                          $741882

                          28 Appendix 5

                          IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                          A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                          1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                          Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                          Appendix 5 29

                          C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                          Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                          LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                          Women Microentrepreneurs

                          National Training Institutes

                          National Research Institute

                          SIDBI

                          NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                          National Resource Organization

                          Banks (including cooperative banks)

                          LELAs

                          Ministry of Finance

                          30 Appendix 5

                          D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                          2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                          Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                          Appendix 5 31

                          G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                          32 Appendix 6

                          SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                          India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                          LendingFinancing Modality

                          Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                          Department Division

                          South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                          I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                          A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                          1 About 221 million people

                          (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                          2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                          power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                          3

                          Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                          4

                          Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                          5

                          B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                          1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                          Appendix 6 33

                          51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                          2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                          II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                          A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                          6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                          to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                          B Consultation and Participation

                          1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                          An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                          34 Appendix 6

                          through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                          2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                          Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                          3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                          C Gender and Development

                          1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                          Appendix 6 35

                          assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                          Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                          III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                          Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                          Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                          Involuntary Resettlement

                          No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                          No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                          framework No action

                          Indigenous Peoples

                          Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                          No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                          framework No action

                          Labor Employment

                          opportunities Labor

                          retrenchment Core labor

                          standards

                          The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                          Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                          No impact Action No action

                          36 Appendix 6

                          resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                          Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                          HIVAIDS Human

                          trafficking Others

                          No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                          IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                          Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                          1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                          2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                          3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                          4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                          5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                          6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                          community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                          Source Asian Development Bank

                          Appendix 7 37

                          OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                          4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                          38 Appendix 7

                          sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                          Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                          Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                          A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                          1 Initial consultations

                          Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                          Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                          SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                          2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                          20 participantsstate 100 3

                          3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                          Retailers 40

                          Government 20

                          Donors 20

                          Other stakeholders 15

                          B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                          1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                          SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                          MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                          50 3

                          2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                          Women microentrepreneurs

                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                          1200 3

                          3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                          1200 3

                          4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                          Women microentrepreneurs

                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                          1200 3

                          5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                          50 4

                          6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                          50 4

                          7 Enterprise financing (1)

                          SIDBI 50 50 3

                          Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                          Appendix 7 39

                          C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                          40 Appendix 7

                          grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                          600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                          person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                          Appendix 7 41

                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                          (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                          (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                          I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                          (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                          (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                          J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                          (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                          42 Appendix 7

                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                          13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                          • JFPR Grant Proposal
                          • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                          • Appendixes
                            • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                            • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                            • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                            • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                            • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                            • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                            • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                            12

                            Household members Families remain at the center of a female entrepreneurrsquos household Families contribute to household income by doing collective agricultural work on the land of the household by engaging in expenditure-saving activities and in microenterprise work In turn female-initiated enterprises benefit entire households as women are primarily responsible for providing the familys system of care Thus the proposed JFPR grant builds on supporting female entrepreneurship that will result in supplemental family income reduced drudgery and womens economic empowerment Estimated numbers 1200 (5 members or households 1200) = 6000

                            The Ministry of Women and Child Development (National Credit Fund for Women or Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) provides for microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise

                            Small Industries Development Bank of India SIDBI is one of the largest government-owned banks in India established to promote the growth and development of micro and SMEs including provision of direct credit to the sector SFMC will work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning and replication SFMC will engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Estimated numbers (initial consultations training and capacity development) 20 senior- and middle-level staff members

                            The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for the proposed JFPR grant which will be implemented through SFMC

                            Retailers and microfinance institutions These are existing SIDBI partner organizations that onlend to clients They will be involved in the initial stocktaking exercise and participate in capacity-development initiatives of SIDBI Gender-sensitivity training will be carried out for operations staff and institutions will agree to adopt international best practices in gender equity womens empowerment and enterprise development Exchange and lateral learning initiatives will help support the institutionalization of promising gender-related results among participating retailers and MFIs Estimated numbers 25 retailers or MFIs (2 staff members 25) = 50

                            NGOs and national resource organizations and research and training institute(s) These will be involved in collecting and documenting emerging gender-related practices in SIDBI partner MFIs and banks setting baseline database of the selected locations tracking the implementation of the gender-related activities carrying out an analysis of the proposed JFPR grant results and carrying out gender-related capacity-development initiatives They will be subcontracted by SIDBI and will interact with

                            13

                            relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                            Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                            7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                            14

                            long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                            1 Link to ADB Strategy

                            Document

                            Document Number

                            Date of Last

                            Discussion Objective(s)

                            ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                            CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                            March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                            19

                            Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                            2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                            18

                            The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                            19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                            15

                            Year Plan (2007-2012)

                            work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                            2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                            Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                            Project Number 43158-01

                            Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                            Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                            3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                            4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                            1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                            2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                            This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                            5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                            18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                            16

                            micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                            Agency SIDBI

                            2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                            Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                            Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                            SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                            Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                            Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                            The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                            17

                            unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                            proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                            3 Incremental ADB Costs

                            Component Incremental Bank Cost

                            Amount requested $0

                            Justification Not Applicable

                            Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                            4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                            Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                            Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                            Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                            Female microentrepreneurs trained

                            Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                            Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                            Financial services progress reports

                            Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                            5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                            Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                            FY2010 1000000

                            FY2011 1000000

                            FY2012 1000000

                            Total Disbursements 3000000

                            18

                            Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                            Appendix 1 19

                            DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                            Data Sources andor Reporting

                            Mechanisms

                            Assumptions andor Risks

                            Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                            Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                            1 (20 increase from 2010

                            baseline)

                            Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                            Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                            Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                            Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                            Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                            Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                            Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                            Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                            1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                            2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                            Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                            Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                            20 Appendix 1

                            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                            Data Sources andor Reporting

                            Mechanisms

                            Assumptions andor Risks

                            trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                            3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                            Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                            Financial services Business processes

                            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                            Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                            Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                            Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                            1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                            promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                            12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                            13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                            2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                            and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                            22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                            Appendix 1 21

                            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                            Data Sources andor Reporting

                            Mechanisms

                            Assumptions andor Risks

                            Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                            (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                            (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                            indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                            34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                            andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                            status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                            Source Asian Development Bank

                            22

                            Ap

                            pe

                            ndix

                            2

                            SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                            Component A

                            Institutionalization of

                            Gender-related Policies

                            Strategies and Programs

                            Component B

                            Training of Stakeholders

                            Involved in Womens

                            Entrepreneurship

                            Component C

                            Financial Services for

                            Low Income

                            Microentrepreneurs

                            Component D

                            Effective Monitoring and

                            Evaluation of Results

                            Component E

                            Project Administration

                            Implementation Support

                            Monitoring and Auditing

                            Total

                            (Input)Percent

                            1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                            2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                            3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                            4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                            5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                            Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                            Government contribution 108000 108000

                            Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                            Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                            Inputs Expenditure Category

                            Grant Components

                            1 includes duties and taxes

                            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

                            Ap

                            pe

                            ndix

                            3 23

                            DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                            Units Per Unit US$

                            AmountMethod of

                            Procurement

                            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                            11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                            111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                            (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                            112 Initital Consultations

                            1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                            Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                            1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                            Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                            113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                            [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                            Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                            21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                            211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                            212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                            213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                            (2each)5000 5000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                            22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                            (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                            Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                            recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                            womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                            womensession $20day

                            person-month

                            (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                            222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                            223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                            retailersstate10800 10800

                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                            23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                            231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                            training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                            person-month

                            (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                            QBS or

                            individual

                            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                            CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                            24

                            A

                            pp

                            en

                            dix

                            3

                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                            Units Per Unit US$

                            AmountMethod of

                            Procurement

                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                            232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                            24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                            241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                            (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                            242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                            (2each) 100 9000 9000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                            Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                            243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                            (2each) 100

                            90009000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                            Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                            25 Enterprise Financing

                            251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                            252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                            2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                            (2each) 50

                            90009000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                            Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                            Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                            32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                            assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                            person-month

                            (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                            33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                            JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                            Ap

                            pe

                            ndix

                            3 25

                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                            Units Per Unit US$

                            AmountMethod of

                            Procurement

                            Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                            41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                            411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                            Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                            Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                            assessment)

                            person-month

                            (lump sum) 8

                            10000 80000 80000

                            412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                            Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                            (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                            Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                            Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                            42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                            Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                            Selection

                            43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                            Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                            Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                            51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                            52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                            53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                            consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                            Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                            532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                            533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                            534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                            535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                            536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                            consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                            Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                            537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                            consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                            54 Equipment and supplies

                            541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                            transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                            Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                            Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                            Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                            Communities

                            CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                            JFPR Government Other Donors

                            These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                            26 Appendix 4

                            FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                            1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                            Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                            2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                            the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                            Appendix 4 27

                            3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                            ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                            Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                            ADB

                            $138754

                            $1345458

                            $438840

                            $335066 Component D

                            Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                            Component C Development of

                            Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                            Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                            Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                            Component E

                            Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                            $741882

                            28 Appendix 5

                            IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                            A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                            1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                            Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                            Appendix 5 29

                            C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                            Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                            LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                            Women Microentrepreneurs

                            National Training Institutes

                            National Research Institute

                            SIDBI

                            NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                            National Resource Organization

                            Banks (including cooperative banks)

                            LELAs

                            Ministry of Finance

                            30 Appendix 5

                            D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                            2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                            Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                            Appendix 5 31

                            G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                            32 Appendix 6

                            SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                            India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                            LendingFinancing Modality

                            Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                            Department Division

                            South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                            I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                            A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                            1 About 221 million people

                            (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                            2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                            power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                            3

                            Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                            4

                            Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                            5

                            B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                            1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                            Appendix 6 33

                            51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                            2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                            II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                            A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                            6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                            to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                            B Consultation and Participation

                            1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                            An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                            34 Appendix 6

                            through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                            2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                            Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                            3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                            C Gender and Development

                            1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                            Appendix 6 35

                            assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                            Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                            III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                            Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                            Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                            Involuntary Resettlement

                            No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                            No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                            framework No action

                            Indigenous Peoples

                            Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                            No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                            framework No action

                            Labor Employment

                            opportunities Labor

                            retrenchment Core labor

                            standards

                            The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                            Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                            No impact Action No action

                            36 Appendix 6

                            resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                            Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                            HIVAIDS Human

                            trafficking Others

                            No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                            IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                            Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                            1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                            2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                            3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                            4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                            5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                            6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                            community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                            Source Asian Development Bank

                            Appendix 7 37

                            OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                            4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                            38 Appendix 7

                            sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                            Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                            Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                            A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                            1 Initial consultations

                            Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                            Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                            SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                            2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                            20 participantsstate 100 3

                            3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                            Retailers 40

                            Government 20

                            Donors 20

                            Other stakeholders 15

                            B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                            1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                            SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                            MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                            50 3

                            2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                            Women microentrepreneurs

                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                            1200 3

                            3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                            1200 3

                            4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                            Women microentrepreneurs

                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                            1200 3

                            5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                            50 4

                            6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                            50 4

                            7 Enterprise financing (1)

                            SIDBI 50 50 3

                            Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                            Appendix 7 39

                            C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                            40 Appendix 7

                            grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                            600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                            person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                            Appendix 7 41

                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                            (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                            (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                            I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                            (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                            (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                            J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                            (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                            42 Appendix 7

                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                            13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                            • JFPR Grant Proposal
                            • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                            • Appendixes
                              • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                              • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                              • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                              • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                              • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                              • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                              • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                              13

                              relevant government civil society and NGOs in the performance of their duties Estimated numbers 3 institutes (10 staff members 3) = 30

                              Livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) They will assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs for the proposed JFPR grant They will provide participants with one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to the use of the credit taken operation of enterprises and repayment of credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity-building overall There will be one advisor per partner MFI Estimated numbers 20 Estimated household members 20 (5 household members 20) = 100

                              7 Coordination 11 Based on a series of discussions with relevant stakeholders (ie the government donor partners and chambers of commerce) it is clear that despite several programs targeted at the micro and SME sector the sector continues to face severe challenges Its unmet needs in access to reasonable and timely finance business development services capacity development and awareness building as well as satisfactory infrastructure remain significant Moreover the sector has suffered as a result of the global economic crisis As a collaborative effort the grant will be implemented in close consultation with the donor community that has actively supported the sector in India for the past several years 12 The largest program among these is the World Bank-led multidonor SME Financing and Development Project for $120 million which was approved in 2004 The project aims to improve access of SMEs to finance (including term finance) and business development services Its three main components are a credit facility a risk-sharing facility and a policy and institutional development technical assistance (TA) program The Department for International Development of the United Kingdom and German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ provided substantial grant assistance to reinforce the capacity development and institutional reforms components of this project For example the Department for International Development-funded TA supported the creation of a credit bureau and an SME rating agency and it helped build capacity at SIDBI Given the good performance of the project the World Bank approved an additional $400 million in supplemental assistance in April 2009 to extend the project to more states The World Bank is also proposing a further $300 million loan to assist the microfinance sector 13 Over the years JICA has extended six credit lines amounting to nearly $2 billion to SIDBI for onlending to the micro and SME sector The current project provides a line of credit of $300 million to SIDBI for encouraging micro and SMEs to undertake energy-saving investments in plant and machinery and in production processes This would not only help enhance energy efficiency and lower carbon dioxide emissions but would also improve their profitability in the

                              14

                              long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                              1 Link to ADB Strategy

                              Document

                              Document Number

                              Date of Last

                              Discussion Objective(s)

                              ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                              CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                              March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                              19

                              Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                              2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                              18

                              The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                              19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                              15

                              Year Plan (2007-2012)

                              work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                              2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                              Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                              Project Number 43158-01

                              Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                              Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                              3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                              4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                              1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                              2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                              This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                              5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                              18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                              16

                              micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                              Agency SIDBI

                              2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                              Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                              Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                              SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                              Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                              Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                              The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                              17

                              unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                              proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                              3 Incremental ADB Costs

                              Component Incremental Bank Cost

                              Amount requested $0

                              Justification Not Applicable

                              Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                              4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                              Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                              Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                              Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                              Female microentrepreneurs trained

                              Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                              Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                              Financial services progress reports

                              Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                              5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                              Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                              FY2010 1000000

                              FY2011 1000000

                              FY2012 1000000

                              Total Disbursements 3000000

                              18

                              Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                              Appendix 1 19

                              DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                              Data Sources andor Reporting

                              Mechanisms

                              Assumptions andor Risks

                              Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                              Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                              1 (20 increase from 2010

                              baseline)

                              Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                              Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                              Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                              Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                              Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                              Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                              Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                              Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                              1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                              2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                              Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                              Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                              20 Appendix 1

                              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                              Data Sources andor Reporting

                              Mechanisms

                              Assumptions andor Risks

                              trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                              3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                              Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                              Financial services Business processes

                              4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                              Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                              Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                              Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                              1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                              promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                              12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                              13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                              2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                              and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                              22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                              Appendix 1 21

                              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                              Data Sources andor Reporting

                              Mechanisms

                              Assumptions andor Risks

                              Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                              (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                              (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                              4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                              indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                              34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                              andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                              status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                              Source Asian Development Bank

                              22

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                              2

                              SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                              Component A

                              Institutionalization of

                              Gender-related Policies

                              Strategies and Programs

                              Component B

                              Training of Stakeholders

                              Involved in Womens

                              Entrepreneurship

                              Component C

                              Financial Services for

                              Low Income

                              Microentrepreneurs

                              Component D

                              Effective Monitoring and

                              Evaluation of Results

                              Component E

                              Project Administration

                              Implementation Support

                              Monitoring and Auditing

                              Total

                              (Input)Percent

                              1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                              2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                              3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                              4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                              5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                              Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                              Government contribution 108000 108000

                              Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                              Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                              Inputs Expenditure Category

                              Grant Components

                              1 includes duties and taxes

                              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                              DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                              Units Per Unit US$

                              AmountMethod of

                              Procurement

                              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                              11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                              111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                              (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                              112 Initital Consultations

                              1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                              Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                              1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                              Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                              113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                              [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                              Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                              21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                              211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                              212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                              213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                              (2each)5000 5000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                              22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                              (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                              Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                              recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                              womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                              womensession $20day

                              person-month

                              (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                              222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                              223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                              retailersstate10800 10800

                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                              23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                              231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                              training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                              person-month

                              (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                              QBS or

                              individual

                              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                              CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                              24

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                              dix

                              3

                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                              Units Per Unit US$

                              AmountMethod of

                              Procurement

                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                              232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                              24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                              241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                              (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                              242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                              (2each) 100 9000 9000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                              Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                              243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                              (2each) 100

                              90009000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                              Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                              25 Enterprise Financing

                              251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                              252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                              2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                              (2each) 50

                              90009000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                              Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                              Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                              32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                              assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                              person-month

                              (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                              33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                              JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                              Units Per Unit US$

                              AmountMethod of

                              Procurement

                              Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                              41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                              411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                              Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                              Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                              assessment)

                              person-month

                              (lump sum) 8

                              10000 80000 80000

                              412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                              Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                              (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                              Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                              Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                              42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                              Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                              Selection

                              43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                              Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                              Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                              51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                              52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                              53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                              consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                              Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                              532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                              533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                              534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                              535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                              536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                              consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                              Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                              537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                              consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                              54 Equipment and supplies

                              541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                              transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                              Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                              Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                              Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                              Communities

                              CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                              JFPR Government Other Donors

                              These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                              26 Appendix 4

                              FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                              1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                              Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                              2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                              the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                              Appendix 4 27

                              3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                              ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                              Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                              ADB

                              $138754

                              $1345458

                              $438840

                              $335066 Component D

                              Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                              Component C Development of

                              Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                              Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                              Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                              Component E

                              Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                              $741882

                              28 Appendix 5

                              IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                              A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                              1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                              Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                              Appendix 5 29

                              C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                              Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                              LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                              Women Microentrepreneurs

                              National Training Institutes

                              National Research Institute

                              SIDBI

                              NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                              National Resource Organization

                              Banks (including cooperative banks)

                              LELAs

                              Ministry of Finance

                              30 Appendix 5

                              D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                              2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                              Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                              Appendix 5 31

                              G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                              32 Appendix 6

                              SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                              India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                              LendingFinancing Modality

                              Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                              Department Division

                              South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                              I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                              A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                              1 About 221 million people

                              (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                              2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                              power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                              3

                              Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                              4

                              Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                              5

                              B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                              1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                              Appendix 6 33

                              51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                              2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                              II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                              A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                              6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                              to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                              B Consultation and Participation

                              1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                              An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                              34 Appendix 6

                              through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                              2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                              Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                              3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                              C Gender and Development

                              1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                              Appendix 6 35

                              assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                              Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                              III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                              Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                              Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                              Involuntary Resettlement

                              No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                              No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                              framework No action

                              Indigenous Peoples

                              Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                              No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                              framework No action

                              Labor Employment

                              opportunities Labor

                              retrenchment Core labor

                              standards

                              The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                              Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                              No impact Action No action

                              36 Appendix 6

                              resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                              Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                              HIVAIDS Human

                              trafficking Others

                              No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                              IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                              Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                              1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                              2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                              3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                              4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                              5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                              6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                              community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                              Source Asian Development Bank

                              Appendix 7 37

                              OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                              4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                              38 Appendix 7

                              sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                              Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                              Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                              A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                              1 Initial consultations

                              Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                              Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                              SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                              2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                              20 participantsstate 100 3

                              3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                              Retailers 40

                              Government 20

                              Donors 20

                              Other stakeholders 15

                              B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                              1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                              SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                              MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                              50 3

                              2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                              Women microentrepreneurs

                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                              1200 3

                              3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                              1200 3

                              4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                              Women microentrepreneurs

                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                              1200 3

                              5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                              50 4

                              6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                              50 4

                              7 Enterprise financing (1)

                              SIDBI 50 50 3

                              Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                              Appendix 7 39

                              C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                              40 Appendix 7

                              grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                              600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                              person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                              Appendix 7 41

                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                              (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                              (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                              I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                              (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                              (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                              J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                              (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                              42 Appendix 7

                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                              13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                              • JFPR Grant Proposal
                              • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                              • Appendixes
                                • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                14

                                long run The project is also being supported by German development cooperation through KfW and GTZ who are also seeking to encourage SMEs in enhancing their energy efficiency18 14 United Nations Industrial Development Organization activities have focused on raising the competitiveness of industrial enterprises especially SMEs through industrial policy advice investment and technology promotion with a view to increasing productivity quality energy efficiency and environmental sustainability Its current consolidated project for SME development in India combines traditional United Nations Industrial Development Organization approaches such as cluster development investment and technology promotion with innovative credit delivery mechanisms for SMEs such as mutual credit guarantee schemes private equity and venture capital 15 While the International Finance Corporation has been helping the private sector including SMEs through its various business linesmdashimproving access to finance creating an enabling environment providing corporate advice aiding infrastructure development and improving environmental and social sustainabilitymdashits most recent initiative involves providing a combination of equity-like financing business mentoring and capacity-building support for the Bharatiya Yuva Shakti Trust growth fund which will assist socially disadvantaged entrepreneurs in the micro and small enterprises sector 8 Detailed Cost Table 16 Please refer to Appendix 2 for summary of cost estimates Appendix 3 for detailed cost estimates and Appendix 4 for the fund flow arrangement C Link to ADB Strategy and ADB-Financed Operations

                                1 Link to ADB Strategy

                                Document

                                Document Number

                                Date of Last

                                Discussion Objective(s)

                                ADB country partnership strategy (CPS) 2009ndash2012

                                CPS-IND 2009ndash2012

                                March 2009 Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing methods are two of the strategic pillars of the CPS The CPS emphasizes the need to promote financial sector and SME development and to support gender equity issues With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote participation of women and their enterprises and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed

                                19

                                Government of India Planning Commission Eleventh Five-

                                2007 The goal of the five-year plan is to increase gross domestic product growth to 10 increase agricultural gross domestic product growth to 4 per year to ensure a wider spread of benefits and create 70 million new

                                18

                                The training and capacity development initiatives under the project could have an indirect effect in partially using JICArsquos credit line for energy efficiency (2009) by enabling low-income women (and other beneficiaries) to be better equipped to undertake and set up enterprises that could be possibly eligible under JICA financed credit lines to SIDBI

                                19 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                15

                                Year Plan (2007-2012)

                                work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                                Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                                Project Number 43158-01

                                Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                                Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                                3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                                4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                                1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                                2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                                This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                                5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                                18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                                16

                                micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                                Agency SIDBI

                                2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                                Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                                Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                                SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                                Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                                Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                                The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                                17

                                unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                                proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                                3 Incremental ADB Costs

                                Component Incremental Bank Cost

                                Amount requested $0

                                Justification Not Applicable

                                Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                                4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                                Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                                Female microentrepreneurs trained

                                Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                                Financial services progress reports

                                Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                                5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                                Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                                FY2010 1000000

                                FY2011 1000000

                                FY2012 1000000

                                Total Disbursements 3000000

                                18

                                Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                                Appendix 1 19

                                DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                Data Sources andor Reporting

                                Mechanisms

                                Assumptions andor Risks

                                Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                1 (20 increase from 2010

                                baseline)

                                Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                20 Appendix 1

                                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                Data Sources andor Reporting

                                Mechanisms

                                Assumptions andor Risks

                                trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                Financial services Business processes

                                4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                Appendix 1 21

                                Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                Data Sources andor Reporting

                                Mechanisms

                                Assumptions andor Risks

                                Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                Source Asian Development Bank

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                                SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                Component A

                                Institutionalization of

                                Gender-related Policies

                                Strategies and Programs

                                Component B

                                Training of Stakeholders

                                Involved in Womens

                                Entrepreneurship

                                Component C

                                Financial Services for

                                Low Income

                                Microentrepreneurs

                                Component D

                                Effective Monitoring and

                                Evaluation of Results

                                Component E

                                Project Administration

                                Implementation Support

                                Monitoring and Auditing

                                Total

                                (Input)Percent

                                1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                Government contribution 108000 108000

                                Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                Inputs Expenditure Category

                                Grant Components

                                1 includes duties and taxes

                                JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                Units Per Unit US$

                                AmountMethod of

                                Procurement

                                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                112 Initital Consultations

                                1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                (2each)5000 5000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                womensession $20day

                                person-month

                                (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                retailersstate10800 10800

                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                person-month

                                (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                QBS or

                                individual

                                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                24

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                                3

                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                Units Per Unit US$

                                AmountMethod of

                                Procurement

                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                (2each) 100

                                90009000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                25 Enterprise Financing

                                251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                (2each) 50

                                90009000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                person-month

                                (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                Units Per Unit US$

                                AmountMethod of

                                Procurement

                                Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                assessment)

                                person-month

                                (lump sum) 8

                                10000 80000 80000

                                412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                Selection

                                43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                54 Equipment and supplies

                                541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                Communities

                                CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                JFPR Government Other Donors

                                These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                26 Appendix 4

                                FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                Appendix 4 27

                                3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                ADB

                                $138754

                                $1345458

                                $438840

                                $335066 Component D

                                Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                Component C Development of

                                Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                Component E

                                Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                $741882

                                28 Appendix 5

                                IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                Appendix 5 29

                                C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                Women Microentrepreneurs

                                National Training Institutes

                                National Research Institute

                                SIDBI

                                NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                National Resource Organization

                                Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                LELAs

                                Ministry of Finance

                                30 Appendix 5

                                D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                Appendix 5 31

                                G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                32 Appendix 6

                                SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                LendingFinancing Modality

                                Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                Department Division

                                South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                1 About 221 million people

                                (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                3

                                Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                4

                                Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                5

                                B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                Appendix 6 33

                                51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                B Consultation and Participation

                                1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                34 Appendix 6

                                through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                C Gender and Development

                                1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                Appendix 6 35

                                assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                Involuntary Resettlement

                                No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                framework No action

                                Indigenous Peoples

                                Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                framework No action

                                Labor Employment

                                opportunities Labor

                                retrenchment Core labor

                                standards

                                The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                No impact Action No action

                                36 Appendix 6

                                resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                HIVAIDS Human

                                trafficking Others

                                No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                Source Asian Development Bank

                                Appendix 7 37

                                OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                38 Appendix 7

                                sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                1 Initial consultations

                                Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                20 participantsstate 100 3

                                3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                Retailers 40

                                Government 20

                                Donors 20

                                Other stakeholders 15

                                B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                50 3

                                2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                1200 3

                                3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                1200 3

                                4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                1200 3

                                5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                50 4

                                6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                50 4

                                7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                SIDBI 50 50 3

                                Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                Appendix 7 39

                                C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                40 Appendix 7

                                grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                Appendix 7 41

                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                42 Appendix 7

                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                • Appendixes
                                  • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                  • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                  • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                  • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                  • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                  • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                  • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                  15

                                  Year Plan (2007-2012)

                                  work opportunities The grantrsquos goals are in line with the priorities of the government which considers the micro and SME sectors important role in facilitating income and employment generation and more specifically the commitment to support womens issues and empowerment in the Prime Ministers 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                  2 Link to Specific ADB-Financed Operation

                                  Project Name Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project

                                  Project Number 43158-01

                                  Date of Board Approval 1 December 2009

                                  Loan Amount ($ million) $50000000

                                  3 Development Objective of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation 17 In support of the CPS outcome the impact will be directed toward helping SMEs realize their full potential and contributing to economic growth and poverty reduction The immediate outcome will be improved SME access to term finance through participating financial institutions thereby fostering SME growth competitiveness and employment creation

                                  4 Main Components of the Associated ADB-Financed Operation No Component Name Brief Description

                                  1 Public Sector Loan The project will provide $50 million long-term financing to public and private sector commercial banks to increase their lending and to provide additional liquidity to the domestic financing markets to channel debt financing to the SME sector

                                  2 Partial Credit Guarantee Facility

                                  This component involves the use of a $250 million guarantee facility allocated to SARD to assist participating financial institutions in raising long-term funding from the market and to enable them to provide credit lines to SMEs in India on market-based terms The ADB-guaranteed financial instrument will be subject to conditions precedent to the disbursement such as receiving all necessary governmental creditor and shareholder approvals consents and financial arrangements satisfactory to ADB The proceeds from the loan backed by a partial credit guarantee must be used by the participating financial institutions to provide funding to their SME clients in India

                                  5 Rationale for Grant Funding Versus ADB Lending

                                  18 There is an existing ADB lending component for SMEs in India but financing for the other needs of SMEs including microenterprises is inadequate to meet the needs of government programs especially in view of the global economic crisis Currently ADBs ordinary capital resources loan would enable SIDBI to extend its credit and business development services to the missing middle of microentrepreneurs which is not the direct focus of any of the current donor-supported projects In parallel the JPFR grant will specifically target a sizeable representation of female microentrepreneurs among the beneficiaries enabling not only access to credit but also assistance in training to ensure that these recipients will be able to manage the numerous social and gender-related constraints that they face and actually set up sustainable and productive enterprises over time The grant will directly help train female-led

                                  16

                                  micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                                  Agency SIDBI

                                  2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                                  Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                                  Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                                  SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                                  Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                                  Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                                  The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                                  17

                                  unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                                  proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                                  3 Incremental ADB Costs

                                  Component Incremental Bank Cost

                                  Amount requested $0

                                  Justification Not Applicable

                                  Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                                  4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                                  Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                  Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                  Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                                  Female microentrepreneurs trained

                                  Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                  Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                                  Financial services progress reports

                                  Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                                  5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                                  Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                                  FY2010 1000000

                                  FY2011 1000000

                                  FY2012 1000000

                                  Total Disbursements 3000000

                                  18

                                  Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                                  Appendix 1 19

                                  DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                                  Mechanisms

                                  Assumptions andor Risks

                                  Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                  Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                  1 (20 increase from 2010

                                  baseline)

                                  Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                  Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                  Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                  Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                  Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                  Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                  Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                  Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                  1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                  2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                  Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                  Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                  20 Appendix 1

                                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                                  Mechanisms

                                  Assumptions andor Risks

                                  trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                  3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                  Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                  Financial services Business processes

                                  4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                  Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                  Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                  Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                  1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                  promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                  12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                  13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                  2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                  and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                  22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                  Appendix 1 21

                                  Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                  Data Sources andor Reporting

                                  Mechanisms

                                  Assumptions andor Risks

                                  Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                  (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                  (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                  4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                  indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                  34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                  andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                  JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                  status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                  Source Asian Development Bank

                                  22

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                                  2

                                  SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                  Component A

                                  Institutionalization of

                                  Gender-related Policies

                                  Strategies and Programs

                                  Component B

                                  Training of Stakeholders

                                  Involved in Womens

                                  Entrepreneurship

                                  Component C

                                  Financial Services for

                                  Low Income

                                  Microentrepreneurs

                                  Component D

                                  Effective Monitoring and

                                  Evaluation of Results

                                  Component E

                                  Project Administration

                                  Implementation Support

                                  Monitoring and Auditing

                                  Total

                                  (Input)Percent

                                  1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                  2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                  3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                  4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                  5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                  Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                  Government contribution 108000 108000

                                  Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                  Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                  Inputs Expenditure Category

                                  Grant Components

                                  1 includes duties and taxes

                                  JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                  DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                  AmountMethod of

                                  Procurement

                                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                  11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                  111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                  (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                  112 Initital Consultations

                                  1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                  Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                  1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                  Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                  113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                  [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                  Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                  21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                  211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                  212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                  213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                  (2each)5000 5000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                  22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                  (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                  recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                  womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                  womensession $20day

                                  person-month

                                  (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                  222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                  223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                  retailersstate10800 10800

                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                  23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                  231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                  training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                  person-month

                                  (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                  QBS or

                                  individual

                                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                  CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                  24

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                                  en

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                                  3

                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                  AmountMethod of

                                  Procurement

                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                  232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                  24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                  241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                  (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                  242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                  (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                  Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                  243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                  (2each) 100

                                  90009000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                  Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                  25 Enterprise Financing

                                  251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                  252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                  2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                  (2each) 50

                                  90009000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                  Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                  Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                  32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                  assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                  person-month

                                  (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                  33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                  JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                  AmountMethod of

                                  Procurement

                                  Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                  41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                  411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                  Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                  assessment)

                                  person-month

                                  (lump sum) 8

                                  10000 80000 80000

                                  412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                  Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                  (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                  Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                  Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                  42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                  Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                  Selection

                                  43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                  Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                  Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                  51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                  52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                  53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                  consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                  Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                  532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                  533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                  534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                  535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                  536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                  consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                  537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                  consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                  54 Equipment and supplies

                                  541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                  transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                  Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                  Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                  Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                  Communities

                                  CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                  JFPR Government Other Donors

                                  These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                  26 Appendix 4

                                  FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                  1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                  Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                  2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                  the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                  Appendix 4 27

                                  3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                  ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                  Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                  ADB

                                  $138754

                                  $1345458

                                  $438840

                                  $335066 Component D

                                  Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                  Component C Development of

                                  Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                  Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                  Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                  Component E

                                  Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                  $741882

                                  28 Appendix 5

                                  IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                  A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                  1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                  Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                  Appendix 5 29

                                  C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                  Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                  LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                  Women Microentrepreneurs

                                  National Training Institutes

                                  National Research Institute

                                  SIDBI

                                  NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                  National Resource Organization

                                  Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                  LELAs

                                  Ministry of Finance

                                  30 Appendix 5

                                  D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                  2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                  Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                  Appendix 5 31

                                  G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                  32 Appendix 6

                                  SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                  India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                  LendingFinancing Modality

                                  Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                  Department Division

                                  South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                  I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                  A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                  1 About 221 million people

                                  (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                  2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                  power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                  3

                                  Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                  4

                                  Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                  5

                                  B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                  1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                  Appendix 6 33

                                  51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                  2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                  II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                  A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                  6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                  to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                  B Consultation and Participation

                                  1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                  An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                  34 Appendix 6

                                  through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                  2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                  Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                  3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                  C Gender and Development

                                  1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                  Appendix 6 35

                                  assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                  Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                  III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                  Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                  Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                  Involuntary Resettlement

                                  No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                  No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                  framework No action

                                  Indigenous Peoples

                                  Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                  No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                  framework No action

                                  Labor Employment

                                  opportunities Labor

                                  retrenchment Core labor

                                  standards

                                  The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                  Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                  No impact Action No action

                                  36 Appendix 6

                                  resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                  Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                  HIVAIDS Human

                                  trafficking Others

                                  No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                  IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                  Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                  1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                  2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                  3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                  4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                  5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                  6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                  community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                  Source Asian Development Bank

                                  Appendix 7 37

                                  OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                  4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                  38 Appendix 7

                                  sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                  Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                  Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                  A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                  1 Initial consultations

                                  Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                  Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                  SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                  2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                  20 participantsstate 100 3

                                  3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                  Retailers 40

                                  Government 20

                                  Donors 20

                                  Other stakeholders 15

                                  B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                  1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                  SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                  MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                  50 3

                                  2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                  1200 3

                                  3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                  1200 3

                                  4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                  1200 3

                                  5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                  50 4

                                  6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                  50 4

                                  7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                  SIDBI 50 50 3

                                  Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                  Appendix 7 39

                                  C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                  40 Appendix 7

                                  grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                  600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                  person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                  Appendix 7 41

                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                  (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                  (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                  I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                  (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                  (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                  J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                  (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                  42 Appendix 7

                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                  13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                  • Appendixes
                                    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                    16

                                    micro and small enterprises strengthening the gender-related policies and programs of SIDBI developing and pilot testing innovative financial solutions for low-income women and establishing an MampE system to assess the social and gender results of the activities to be supported under the grant None of the existing donor programs for SMEs or even the SIDBI programs have TA specifically targeting gender equity and womenrsquos empowerment D Implementation of the Proposed Grant 1 Implementing

                                    Agency SIDBI

                                    2 Risks Affecting Grant Implementation 19 As the activities will focus mostly on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues Type of Risk Brief Description Measures to Mitigate Risks

                                    Selection of female microentrepreneurs as client beneficiaries of retail lenders

                                    Because female entrepreneurs are less educated there is a lack of confidence in female entrepreneurs particularly among formal banks and other financial institutions

                                    SIDBI will support partners to recruit women to act as livelihood enterprise learning advisors to assist in identifying the female entrepreneurs under this grant The advisors will provide one-on-one personal guidance and advice with respect to using the credit taken operating the enterprise and repaying credit and will mentor the entrepreneurs in their capacity development There will be one advisor per partner MFI The presence of these advisors will lead to careful selection of the client and ensure repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with the female entrepreneurs and will eliminate the need for collateral on the part of the lender Separately the grant will develop MIS software for participating retailers which will allow them to ascertain the use of credit for microenterprise and to collect sex-disaggregated information Additional measures to further ensure alternative collateral schemes include building the financial discipline of clients through orientation and through the financial literacy initiatives financed under the grant

                                    Quality of services provided by the research institute resource organization and training institutes

                                    Due to the prevailing high demand for services of good institutes andor organizations they try to accept all assignments and engage the services of inexperienced staff members who are not properly remunerated As such the desired degree of commitment and dedication cannot be expected This may lead to

                                    The selection of national research resource and training institutes will be through the quality-based selection method whereby technical proposals will be first assessed by SIDBI and negotiation of the financial proposal and the contract will be carried out with the consultant who submits the highest-ranked technical proposal The identity and qualifications of each proposed national consultant will need to be detailed by each short-listed institute andor organization in its

                                    17

                                    unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                                    proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                                    3 Incremental ADB Costs

                                    Component Incremental Bank Cost

                                    Amount requested $0

                                    Justification Not Applicable

                                    Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                                    4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                                    Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                    Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                    Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                                    Female microentrepreneurs trained

                                    Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                    Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                                    Financial services progress reports

                                    Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                                    5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                                    Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                                    FY2010 1000000

                                    FY2011 1000000

                                    FY2012 1000000

                                    Total Disbursements 3000000

                                    18

                                    Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                                    Appendix 1 19

                                    DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                                    Mechanisms

                                    Assumptions andor Risks

                                    Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                    Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                    1 (20 increase from 2010

                                    baseline)

                                    Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                    Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                    Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                    Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                    Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                    Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                    Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                    Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                    1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                    2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                    Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                    Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                    20 Appendix 1

                                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                                    Mechanisms

                                    Assumptions andor Risks

                                    trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                    3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                    Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                    Financial services Business processes

                                    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                    Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                    Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                    Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                    1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                    promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                    12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                    13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                    2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                    and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                    22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                    Appendix 1 21

                                    Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                    Data Sources andor Reporting

                                    Mechanisms

                                    Assumptions andor Risks

                                    Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                    (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                    (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                    4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                    indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                    34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                    andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                    status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                    Source Asian Development Bank

                                    22

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                                    2

                                    SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                    Component A

                                    Institutionalization of

                                    Gender-related Policies

                                    Strategies and Programs

                                    Component B

                                    Training of Stakeholders

                                    Involved in Womens

                                    Entrepreneurship

                                    Component C

                                    Financial Services for

                                    Low Income

                                    Microentrepreneurs

                                    Component D

                                    Effective Monitoring and

                                    Evaluation of Results

                                    Component E

                                    Project Administration

                                    Implementation Support

                                    Monitoring and Auditing

                                    Total

                                    (Input)Percent

                                    1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                    2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                    3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                    4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                    5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                    Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                    Government contribution 108000 108000

                                    Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                    Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                    Inputs Expenditure Category

                                    Grant Components

                                    1 includes duties and taxes

                                    JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                    3 23

                                    DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                    Units Per Unit US$

                                    AmountMethod of

                                    Procurement

                                    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                    11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                    111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                    (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                    112 Initital Consultations

                                    1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                    Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                    1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                    Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                    113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                    [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                    Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                    21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                    211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                    212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                    213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                    (2each)5000 5000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                    22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                    (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                    recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                    womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                    womensession $20day

                                    person-month

                                    (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                    222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                    223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                    retailersstate10800 10800

                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                    23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                    231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                    training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                    person-month

                                    (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                    QBS or

                                    individual

                                    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                    CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                    24

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                                    en

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                                    3

                                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                    Units Per Unit US$

                                    AmountMethod of

                                    Procurement

                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                    232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                    24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                    241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                    (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                    242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                    (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                    Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                    243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                    (2each) 100

                                    90009000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                    Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                    25 Enterprise Financing

                                    251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                    252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                    2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                    (2each) 50

                                    90009000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                    Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                    Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                    32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                    assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                    person-month

                                    (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                    33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                    JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                    3 25

                                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                    Units Per Unit US$

                                    AmountMethod of

                                    Procurement

                                    Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                    41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                    411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                    Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                    assessment)

                                    person-month

                                    (lump sum) 8

                                    10000 80000 80000

                                    412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                    Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                    (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                    Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                    Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                    42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                    Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                    Selection

                                    43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                    Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                    Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                    51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                    52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                    53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                    consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                    Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                    532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                    533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                    534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                    535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                    536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                    consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                    537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                    consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                    54 Equipment and supplies

                                    541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                    transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                    Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                    Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                    Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                    Communities

                                    CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                    JFPR Government Other Donors

                                    These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                    26 Appendix 4

                                    FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                    1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                    Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                    2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                    the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                    Appendix 4 27

                                    3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                    ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                    Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                    ADB

                                    $138754

                                    $1345458

                                    $438840

                                    $335066 Component D

                                    Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                    Component C Development of

                                    Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                    Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                    Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                    Component E

                                    Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                    $741882

                                    28 Appendix 5

                                    IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                    A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                    1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                    Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                    Appendix 5 29

                                    C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                    Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                    LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                    Women Microentrepreneurs

                                    National Training Institutes

                                    National Research Institute

                                    SIDBI

                                    NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                    National Resource Organization

                                    Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                    LELAs

                                    Ministry of Finance

                                    30 Appendix 5

                                    D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                    2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                    Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                    Appendix 5 31

                                    G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                    32 Appendix 6

                                    SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                    India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                    LendingFinancing Modality

                                    Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                    Department Division

                                    South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                    I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                    A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                    1 About 221 million people

                                    (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                    2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                    power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                    3

                                    Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                    4

                                    Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                    5

                                    B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                    1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                    Appendix 6 33

                                    51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                    2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                    II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                    A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                    6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                    to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                    B Consultation and Participation

                                    1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                    An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                    34 Appendix 6

                                    through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                    2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                    Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                    3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                    C Gender and Development

                                    1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                    Appendix 6 35

                                    assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                    Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                    III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                    Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                    Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                    Involuntary Resettlement

                                    No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                    No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                    framework No action

                                    Indigenous Peoples

                                    Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                    No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                    framework No action

                                    Labor Employment

                                    opportunities Labor

                                    retrenchment Core labor

                                    standards

                                    The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                    Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                    No impact Action No action

                                    36 Appendix 6

                                    resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                    Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                    HIVAIDS Human

                                    trafficking Others

                                    No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                    IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                    Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                    1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                    2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                    3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                    4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                    5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                    6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                    community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                    Source Asian Development Bank

                                    Appendix 7 37

                                    OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                    4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                    38 Appendix 7

                                    sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                    Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                    Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                    A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                    1 Initial consultations

                                    Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                    Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                    SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                    2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                    20 participantsstate 100 3

                                    3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                    Retailers 40

                                    Government 20

                                    Donors 20

                                    Other stakeholders 15

                                    B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                    1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                    SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                    MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                    50 3

                                    2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                    1200 3

                                    3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                    1200 3

                                    4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                    1200 3

                                    5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                    50 4

                                    6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                    50 4

                                    7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                    SIDBI 50 50 3

                                    Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                    Appendix 7 39

                                    C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                    40 Appendix 7

                                    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                    Appendix 7 41

                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                    42 Appendix 7

                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                    • Appendixes
                                      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                      17

                                      unsatisfactory and disputable performance and quality

                                      proposal as this aspect will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals

                                      3 Incremental ADB Costs

                                      Component Incremental Bank Cost

                                      Amount requested $0

                                      Justification Not Applicable

                                      Type of work to be rendered by ADB Not Applicable

                                      4 Monitoring and Evaluation Key Performance Indicator Reporting Mechanism Plan and Timetable for MampE

                                      Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                      Technical reports toolkits checklists guidelines andor any other tool Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                      Quarterly reports from SIDBI incorporating inputs from the national research institute national resource organization and training institutes Quarterly review missions by ADB

                                      Female microentrepreneurs trained

                                      Progress reports Baseline information and data reports training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                      Financial services for low-income women developed in rural urban and periurban areas

                                      Financial services progress reports

                                      Effective MampE results Knowledge product option paper National seminars (3) State workshop proceedings

                                      5 Estimated Disbursement Schedule

                                      Fiscal Year (FY) Amount ($)

                                      FY2010 1000000

                                      FY2011 1000000

                                      FY2012 1000000

                                      Total Disbursements 3000000

                                      18

                                      Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                                      Appendix 1 19

                                      DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                                      Mechanisms

                                      Assumptions andor Risks

                                      Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                      Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                      1 (20 increase from 2010

                                      baseline)

                                      Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                      Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                      Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                      Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                      Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                      Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                      Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                      Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                      1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                      2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                      Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                      Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                      20 Appendix 1

                                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                                      Mechanisms

                                      Assumptions andor Risks

                                      trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                      3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                      Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                      Financial services Business processes

                                      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                      Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                      Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                      Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                      1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                      promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                      12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                      13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                      2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                      and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                      22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                      Appendix 1 21

                                      Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                      Data Sources andor Reporting

                                      Mechanisms

                                      Assumptions andor Risks

                                      Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                      (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                      (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                      4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                      indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                      34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                      andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                      status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                      Source Asian Development Bank

                                      22

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                                      2

                                      SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                      Component A

                                      Institutionalization of

                                      Gender-related Policies

                                      Strategies and Programs

                                      Component B

                                      Training of Stakeholders

                                      Involved in Womens

                                      Entrepreneurship

                                      Component C

                                      Financial Services for

                                      Low Income

                                      Microentrepreneurs

                                      Component D

                                      Effective Monitoring and

                                      Evaluation of Results

                                      Component E

                                      Project Administration

                                      Implementation Support

                                      Monitoring and Auditing

                                      Total

                                      (Input)Percent

                                      1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                      2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                      3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                      4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                      5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                      Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                      Government contribution 108000 108000

                                      Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                      Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                      Inputs Expenditure Category

                                      Grant Components

                                      1 includes duties and taxes

                                      JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                      DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                      Units Per Unit US$

                                      AmountMethod of

                                      Procurement

                                      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                      11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                      111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                      (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                      112 Initital Consultations

                                      1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                      Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                      1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                      Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                      113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                      [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                      Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                      21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                      211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                      212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                      213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                      (2each)5000 5000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                      22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                      (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                      recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                      womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                      womensession $20day

                                      person-month

                                      (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                      222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                      223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                      retailersstate10800 10800

                                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                      23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                      231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                      training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                      person-month

                                      (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                      QBS or

                                      individual

                                      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                      CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                      24

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                                      en

                                      dix

                                      3

                                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                      Units Per Unit US$

                                      AmountMethod of

                                      Procurement

                                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                      Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                      232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                      Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                      Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                      24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                      241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                      (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                      242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                      (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                      Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                      243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                      (2each) 100

                                      90009000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                      Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                      Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                      25 Enterprise Financing

                                      251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                      252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                      2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                      (2each) 50

                                      90009000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                      Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                      Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                      32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                      Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                      assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                      person-month

                                      (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                      33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                      (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                      COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                      JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                      Units Per Unit US$

                                      AmountMethod of

                                      Procurement

                                      Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                      41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                      411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                      Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                      assessment)

                                      person-month

                                      (lump sum) 8

                                      10000 80000 80000

                                      412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                      Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                      (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                      Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                      Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                      42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                      Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                      Selection

                                      43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                      Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                      Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                      51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                      52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                      53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                      consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                      Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                      532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                      533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                      534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                      535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                      536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                      consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                      537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                      consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                      54 Equipment and supplies

                                      541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                      transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                      Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                      Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                      Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                      Communities

                                      CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                      JFPR Government Other Donors

                                      These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                      26 Appendix 4

                                      FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                      1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                      Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                      2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                      the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                      Appendix 4 27

                                      3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                      ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                      Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                      ADB

                                      $138754

                                      $1345458

                                      $438840

                                      $335066 Component D

                                      Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                      Component C Development of

                                      Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                      Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                      Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                      Component E

                                      Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                      $741882

                                      28 Appendix 5

                                      IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                      A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                      1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                      Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                      Appendix 5 29

                                      C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                      Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                      LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                      Women Microentrepreneurs

                                      National Training Institutes

                                      National Research Institute

                                      SIDBI

                                      NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                      National Resource Organization

                                      Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                      LELAs

                                      Ministry of Finance

                                      30 Appendix 5

                                      D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                      2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                      Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                      Appendix 5 31

                                      G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                      32 Appendix 6

                                      SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                      India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                      LendingFinancing Modality

                                      Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                      Department Division

                                      South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                      I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                      A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                      1 About 221 million people

                                      (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                      2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                      power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                      3

                                      Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                      4

                                      Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                      5

                                      B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                      1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                      Appendix 6 33

                                      51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                      2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                      II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                      A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                      6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                      to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                      B Consultation and Participation

                                      1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                      An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                      34 Appendix 6

                                      through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                      2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                      Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                      3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                      C Gender and Development

                                      1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                      Appendix 6 35

                                      assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                      Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                      III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                      Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                      Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                      Involuntary Resettlement

                                      No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                      No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                      framework No action

                                      Indigenous Peoples

                                      Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                      No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                      framework No action

                                      Labor Employment

                                      opportunities Labor

                                      retrenchment Core labor

                                      standards

                                      The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                      Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                      No impact Action No action

                                      36 Appendix 6

                                      resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                      Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                      HIVAIDS Human

                                      trafficking Others

                                      No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                      IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                      Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                      1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                      2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                      3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                      4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                      5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                      6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                      community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                      Source Asian Development Bank

                                      Appendix 7 37

                                      OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                      4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                      38 Appendix 7

                                      sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                      Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                      Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                      A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                      1 Initial consultations

                                      Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                      Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                      SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                      2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                      20 participantsstate 100 3

                                      3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                      Retailers 40

                                      Government 20

                                      Donors 20

                                      Other stakeholders 15

                                      B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                      1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                      SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                      MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                      50 3

                                      2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                      1200 3

                                      3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                      1200 3

                                      4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                      1200 3

                                      5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                      50 4

                                      6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                      50 4

                                      7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                      SIDBI 50 50 3

                                      Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                      Appendix 7 39

                                      C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                      40 Appendix 7

                                      grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                      600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                      person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                      Appendix 7 41

                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                      42 Appendix 7

                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                      • Appendixes
                                        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                        18

                                        Appendixes 1 Design and Monitoring Framework 2 Summary of Cost Estimates 3 Detailed Cost Estimates 4 Fund Flow Arrangement 5 Implementation Arrangements 6 Summary Poverty Reduction and Social Strategy 7 Outline of Terms of Reference

                                        Appendix 1 19

                                        DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                                        Mechanisms

                                        Assumptions andor Risks

                                        Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                        Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                        1 (20 increase from 2010

                                        baseline)

                                        Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                        Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                        Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                        Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                        Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                        Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                        Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                        Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                        1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                        2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                        Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                        Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                        20 Appendix 1

                                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                                        Mechanisms

                                        Assumptions andor Risks

                                        trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                        3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                        Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                        Financial services Business processes

                                        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                        Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                        Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                        Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                        1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                        promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                        12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                        13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                        2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                        and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                        22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                        Appendix 1 21

                                        Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                        Data Sources andor Reporting

                                        Mechanisms

                                        Assumptions andor Risks

                                        Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                        (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                        (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                        4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                        indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                        34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                        andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                        status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                        Source Asian Development Bank

                                        22

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                                        2

                                        SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                        Component A

                                        Institutionalization of

                                        Gender-related Policies

                                        Strategies and Programs

                                        Component B

                                        Training of Stakeholders

                                        Involved in Womens

                                        Entrepreneurship

                                        Component C

                                        Financial Services for

                                        Low Income

                                        Microentrepreneurs

                                        Component D

                                        Effective Monitoring and

                                        Evaluation of Results

                                        Component E

                                        Project Administration

                                        Implementation Support

                                        Monitoring and Auditing

                                        Total

                                        (Input)Percent

                                        1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                        2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                        3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                        4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                        5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                        Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                        Government contribution 108000 108000

                                        Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                        Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                        Inputs Expenditure Category

                                        Grant Components

                                        1 includes duties and taxes

                                        JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                        DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                        Units Per Unit US$

                                        AmountMethod of

                                        Procurement

                                        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                        11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                        111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                        (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                        112 Initital Consultations

                                        1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                        Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                        1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                        Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                        113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                        [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                        Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                        21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                        211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                        212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                        213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                        (2each)5000 5000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                        22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                        (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                        recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                        womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                        womensession $20day

                                        person-month

                                        (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                        222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                        223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                        retailersstate10800 10800

                                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                        23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                        231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                        training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                        person-month

                                        (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                        QBS or

                                        individual

                                        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                        CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                        24

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                                        en

                                        dix

                                        3

                                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                        Units Per Unit US$

                                        AmountMethod of

                                        Procurement

                                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                        Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                        232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                        Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                        Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                        24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                        241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                        (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                        242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                        (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                        Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                        243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                        (2each) 100

                                        90009000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                        Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                        Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                        25 Enterprise Financing

                                        251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                        252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                        2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                        (2each) 50

                                        90009000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                        Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                        Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                        32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                        Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                        assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                        person-month

                                        (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                        33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                        (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                        COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                        JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                        Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                        Units Per Unit US$

                                        AmountMethod of

                                        Procurement

                                        Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                        41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                        411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                        Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                        assessment)

                                        person-month

                                        (lump sum) 8

                                        10000 80000 80000

                                        412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                        Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                        (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                        Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                        Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                        42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                        Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                        Selection

                                        43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                        Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                        Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                        Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                        Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                        Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                        51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                        52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                        53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                        consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                        Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                        Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                        532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                        533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                        534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                        535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                        consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                        536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                        consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                        Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                        537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                        consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                        54 Equipment and supplies

                                        541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                        transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                        Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                        Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                        Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                        Communities

                                        CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                        JFPR Government Other Donors

                                        These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                        26 Appendix 4

                                        FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                        1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                        Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                        2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                        the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                        Appendix 4 27

                                        3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                        ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                        Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                        ADB

                                        $138754

                                        $1345458

                                        $438840

                                        $335066 Component D

                                        Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                        Component C Development of

                                        Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                        Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                        Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                        Component E

                                        Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                        $741882

                                        28 Appendix 5

                                        IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                        A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                        1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                        Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                        Appendix 5 29

                                        C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                        Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                        LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                        Women Microentrepreneurs

                                        National Training Institutes

                                        National Research Institute

                                        SIDBI

                                        NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                        National Resource Organization

                                        Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                        LELAs

                                        Ministry of Finance

                                        30 Appendix 5

                                        D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                        2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                        Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                        Appendix 5 31

                                        G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                        32 Appendix 6

                                        SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                        India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                        LendingFinancing Modality

                                        Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                        Department Division

                                        South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                        I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                        A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                        1 About 221 million people

                                        (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                        2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                        power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                        3

                                        Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                        4

                                        Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                        5

                                        B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                        1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                        Appendix 6 33

                                        51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                        2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                        II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                        A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                        6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                        to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                        B Consultation and Participation

                                        1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                        An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                        34 Appendix 6

                                        through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                        2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                        Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                        3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                        C Gender and Development

                                        1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                        Appendix 6 35

                                        assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                        Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                        III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                        Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                        Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                        Involuntary Resettlement

                                        No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                        No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                        framework No action

                                        Indigenous Peoples

                                        Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                        No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                        framework No action

                                        Labor Employment

                                        opportunities Labor

                                        retrenchment Core labor

                                        standards

                                        The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                        Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                        No impact Action No action

                                        36 Appendix 6

                                        resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                        Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                        HIVAIDS Human

                                        trafficking Others

                                        No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                        IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                        Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                        1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                        2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                        3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                        4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                        5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                        6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                        community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                        Source Asian Development Bank

                                        Appendix 7 37

                                        OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                        4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                        38 Appendix 7

                                        sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                        Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                        Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                        A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                        1 Initial consultations

                                        Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                        Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                        SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                        2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                        20 participantsstate 100 3

                                        3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                        Retailers 40

                                        Government 20

                                        Donors 20

                                        Other stakeholders 15

                                        B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                        1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                        SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                        MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                        50 3

                                        2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                        1200 3

                                        3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                        1200 3

                                        4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                        1200 3

                                        5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                        50 4

                                        6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                        50 4

                                        7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                        SIDBI 50 50 3

                                        Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                        Appendix 7 39

                                        C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                        40 Appendix 7

                                        grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                        600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                        person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                        Appendix 7 41

                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                        (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                        (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                        I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                        (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                        (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                        J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                        (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                        42 Appendix 7

                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                        • Appendixes
                                          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                          Appendix 1 19

                                          DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK

                                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                                          Mechanisms

                                          Assumptions andor Risks

                                          Impact Enhanced gender equity and womens empowerment by creating a culture of entrepreneurship among women in the grant areas

                                          Improvement in the quality of life of low-income female entrepreneurs in the grant areas defined through a set of gender and womenrsquos empowerment related targets and indicators

                                          1 (20 increase from 2010

                                          baseline)

                                          Grant-specific information and data Grant impact assessment Other information and data from government development partners and civil society

                                          Outcome Greater capacity of low-income female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities in the grant areas

                                          Number of successful applications by low-income female entrepreneurs at SIDBI branches in selected states increased (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Number of new micro and SME entrants assisted by the grant disaggregated by sex (20 increase from 2010 baseline) Percentage of ownership of businesses by sector disaggregated by sex

                                          Information and data Proceedings from national- and state-level workshops

                                          Assumption Commitment of SIDBI and SIDBI partners to advance gender and socially inclusive approaches

                                          Outputs Methods to institutionalize gender approaches assessed and revised as needed Number of gender-sensitive policies and strategies adopted by SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks in areas related to female entrepreneurship

                                          Technical reports tool kits checklists guidelines andor any other tools Exchange and lateral learning reports

                                          Assumption Effective and timely collaboration of relevant government stakeholders SIDBI and SIDBI partners Risk Staff changes in executing agency or implementing agency weaken coordination of grant activities

                                          1 Gender-related policies strategies and programs institutionalized

                                          2 Stakeholders involved in female entrepreneurship trained

                                          Number of SIDBI staff members (25) and retailers (at most 50) trained in gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship Number of low-income female entrepreneurs (1200) trained in financial literacy leadership communication and business development services Number of retailers (at most 50)

                                          Baseline information and data reports Training and capacity needs assessment reports

                                          20 Appendix 1

                                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                                          Mechanisms

                                          Assumptions andor Risks

                                          trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                          3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                          Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                          Financial services Business processes

                                          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                          Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                          Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                          Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                          1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                          promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                          12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                          13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                          2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                          and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                          22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                          Appendix 1 21

                                          Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                          Data Sources andor Reporting

                                          Mechanisms

                                          Assumptions andor Risks

                                          Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                          (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                          (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                          4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                          indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                          34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                          andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                          status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                          Source Asian Development Bank

                                          22

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                                          SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                          Component A

                                          Institutionalization of

                                          Gender-related Policies

                                          Strategies and Programs

                                          Component B

                                          Training of Stakeholders

                                          Involved in Womens

                                          Entrepreneurship

                                          Component C

                                          Financial Services for

                                          Low Income

                                          Microentrepreneurs

                                          Component D

                                          Effective Monitoring and

                                          Evaluation of Results

                                          Component E

                                          Project Administration

                                          Implementation Support

                                          Monitoring and Auditing

                                          Total

                                          (Input)Percent

                                          1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                          2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                          3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                          4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                          5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                          Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                          Government contribution 108000 108000

                                          Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                          Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                          Inputs Expenditure Category

                                          Grant Components

                                          1 includes duties and taxes

                                          JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                          DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                          Units Per Unit US$

                                          AmountMethod of

                                          Procurement

                                          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                          11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                          111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                          (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                          112 Initital Consultations

                                          1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                          Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                          1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                          Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                          113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                          [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                          Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                          21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                          211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                          212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                          213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                          (2each)5000 5000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                          22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                          (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                          recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                          womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                          womensession $20day

                                          person-month

                                          (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                          222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                          223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                          retailersstate10800 10800

                                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                          23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                          231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                          training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                          person-month

                                          (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                          QBS or

                                          individual

                                          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                          CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                          24

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                                          3

                                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                          Units Per Unit US$

                                          AmountMethod of

                                          Procurement

                                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                          Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                          232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                          Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                          Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                          24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                          241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                          (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                          242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                          (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                          Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                          243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                          (2each) 100

                                          90009000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                          Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                          Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                          25 Enterprise Financing

                                          251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                          252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                          2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                          (2each) 50

                                          90009000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                          Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                          Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                          32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                          Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                          assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                          person-month

                                          (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                          33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                          (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                          COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                          JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                          Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                          Units Per Unit US$

                                          AmountMethod of

                                          Procurement

                                          Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                          41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                          411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                          Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                          assessment)

                                          person-month

                                          (lump sum) 8

                                          10000 80000 80000

                                          412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                          Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                          (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                          Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                          Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                          42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                          Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                          Selection

                                          43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                          Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                          Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                          Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                          Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                          Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                          51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                          52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                          53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                          consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                          Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                          Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                          532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                          533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                          534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                          535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                          consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                          536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                          consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                          Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                          537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                          consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                          54 Equipment and supplies

                                          541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                          transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                          Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                          Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                          Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                          Communities

                                          CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                          JFPR Government Other Donors

                                          These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                          26 Appendix 4

                                          FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                          1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                          Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                          2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                          the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                          Appendix 4 27

                                          3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                          ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                          Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                          ADB

                                          $138754

                                          $1345458

                                          $438840

                                          $335066 Component D

                                          Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                          Component C Development of

                                          Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                          Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                          Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                          Component E

                                          Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                          $741882

                                          28 Appendix 5

                                          IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                          A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                          1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                          Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                          Appendix 5 29

                                          C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                          Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                          LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                          Women Microentrepreneurs

                                          National Training Institutes

                                          National Research Institute

                                          SIDBI

                                          NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                          National Resource Organization

                                          Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                          LELAs

                                          Ministry of Finance

                                          30 Appendix 5

                                          D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                          2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                          Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                          Appendix 5 31

                                          G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                          32 Appendix 6

                                          SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                          India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                          LendingFinancing Modality

                                          Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                          Department Division

                                          South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                          I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                          A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                          1 About 221 million people

                                          (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                          2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                          power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                          3

                                          Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                          4

                                          Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                          5

                                          B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                          1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                          Appendix 6 33

                                          51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                          2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                          II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                          A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                          6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                          to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                          B Consultation and Participation

                                          1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                          An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                          34 Appendix 6

                                          through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                          2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                          Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                          3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                          C Gender and Development

                                          1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                          Appendix 6 35

                                          assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                          Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                          III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                          Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                          Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                          Involuntary Resettlement

                                          No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                          No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                          framework No action

                                          Indigenous Peoples

                                          Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                          No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                          framework No action

                                          Labor Employment

                                          opportunities Labor

                                          retrenchment Core labor

                                          standards

                                          The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                          Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                          No impact Action No action

                                          36 Appendix 6

                                          resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                          Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                          HIVAIDS Human

                                          trafficking Others

                                          No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                          IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                          Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                          1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                          2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                          3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                          4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                          5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                          6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                          community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                          Source Asian Development Bank

                                          Appendix 7 37

                                          OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                          4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                          38 Appendix 7

                                          sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                          Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                          Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                          A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                          1 Initial consultations

                                          Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                          Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                          SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                          2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                          20 participantsstate 100 3

                                          3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                          Retailers 40

                                          Government 20

                                          Donors 20

                                          Other stakeholders 15

                                          B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                          1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                          SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                          MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                          50 3

                                          2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                          1200 3

                                          3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                          1200 3

                                          4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                          1200 3

                                          5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                          50 4

                                          6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                          50 4

                                          7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                          SIDBI 50 50 3

                                          Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                          Appendix 7 39

                                          C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                          40 Appendix 7

                                          grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                          600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                          person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                          Appendix 7 41

                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                          (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                          (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                          I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                          (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                          (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                          J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                          (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                          42 Appendix 7

                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                          13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                          • Appendixes
                                            • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                            • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                            • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                            • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                            • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                            • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                            • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                            20 Appendix 1

                                            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                            Data Sources andor Reporting

                                            Mechanisms

                                            Assumptions andor Risks

                                            trained in technology and appropriate operations Number of SIDBI staff members (25) trained in enterprise financing

                                            3 Financial services for low-income female micro-entrepreneurs developed

                                            Financial contribution provided to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income female microentrepreneurs (1200) MIS software for participating retailers developed Development of cadre of livelihood enterprise learning advisors (20) one at each participating partner MFI (25)

                                            Financial services Business processes

                                            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results

                                            Baseline data collected and analyzed on a set of quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed at grant onset and effectively monitored during grant implementation Quality knowledge product finalized on time (1) Quality option paper on financing modalities for low-income women entrepreneurs finalized on time and cleared by the government National seminar (1) and state workshops (6) carried out to distribute grant findings and recommendations

                                            Knowledge product Option paper Proceedings of national seminars and state workshops

                                            Activities with Milestones Inputs JFPR grant $3000000 10235 person-months of national consultants

                                            1 Institutionalize gender-related policies strategies and programs 11 Document gender-related policies strategies and programs related to the

                                            promotion of female entrepreneurship in SIDBI partner MFIs NBFCs and banks (months 3ndash6)

                                            12 Assess and revise modalities to institutionalize gender approaches (months 6ndash9)

                                            13 Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI partners organized in the selected states (months 9ndash34)

                                            2 Train stakeholders involved in womens entrepreneurship 21 Develop a training program and modules about gender in microfinance

                                            and entrepreneurship targeting SIDBI partner MFIs (retailers) (months 6ndash34)

                                            22 Develop training program and modules in (a) financial literacy leadership communication and business development services (b) technology and appropriate operations and (c) enterprise financing (months 6ndash36)

                                            Appendix 1 21

                                            Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                            Data Sources andor Reporting

                                            Mechanisms

                                            Assumptions andor Risks

                                            Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                            (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                            (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                            4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                            indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                            34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                            andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                            status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                            Source Asian Development Bank

                                            22

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                                            SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                            Component A

                                            Institutionalization of

                                            Gender-related Policies

                                            Strategies and Programs

                                            Component B

                                            Training of Stakeholders

                                            Involved in Womens

                                            Entrepreneurship

                                            Component C

                                            Financial Services for

                                            Low Income

                                            Microentrepreneurs

                                            Component D

                                            Effective Monitoring and

                                            Evaluation of Results

                                            Component E

                                            Project Administration

                                            Implementation Support

                                            Monitoring and Auditing

                                            Total

                                            (Input)Percent

                                            1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                            2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                            3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                            4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                            5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                            Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                            Government contribution 108000 108000

                                            Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                            Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                            Inputs Expenditure Category

                                            Grant Components

                                            1 includes duties and taxes

                                            JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                            DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                            Units Per Unit US$

                                            AmountMethod of

                                            Procurement

                                            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                            11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                            111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                            (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                            112 Initital Consultations

                                            1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                            Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                            1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                            Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                            113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                            [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                            Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                            21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                            211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                            212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                            213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                            (2each)5000 5000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                            22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                            (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                            recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                            womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                            womensession $20day

                                            person-month

                                            (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                            222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                            223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                            retailersstate10800 10800

                                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                            23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                            231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                            training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                            person-month

                                            (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                            QBS or

                                            individual

                                            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                            CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                            24

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                                            dix

                                            3

                                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                            Units Per Unit US$

                                            AmountMethod of

                                            Procurement

                                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                            Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                            232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                            Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                            Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                            24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                            241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                            (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                            242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                            (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                            Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                            243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                            (2each) 100

                                            90009000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                            Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                            Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                            25 Enterprise Financing

                                            251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                            252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                            2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                            (2each) 50

                                            90009000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                            Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                            Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                            32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                            Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                            assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                            person-month

                                            (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                            33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                            (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                            COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                            JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                            Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                            Units Per Unit US$

                                            AmountMethod of

                                            Procurement

                                            Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                            41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                            411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                            Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                            assessment)

                                            person-month

                                            (lump sum) 8

                                            10000 80000 80000

                                            412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                            Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                            (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                            Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                            Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                            42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                            Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                            Selection

                                            43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                            Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                            Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                            Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                            Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                            Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                            51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                            52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                            53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                            consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                            Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                            Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                            532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                            533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                            534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                            535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                            consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                            536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                            consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                            Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                            537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                            consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                            54 Equipment and supplies

                                            541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                            transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                            Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                            Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                            Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                            Communities

                                            CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                            JFPR Government Other Donors

                                            These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                            26 Appendix 4

                                            FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                            1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                            Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                            2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                            the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                            Appendix 4 27

                                            3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                            ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                            Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                            ADB

                                            $138754

                                            $1345458

                                            $438840

                                            $335066 Component D

                                            Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                            Component C Development of

                                            Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                            Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                            Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                            Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                            Component E

                                            Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                            $741882

                                            28 Appendix 5

                                            IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                            A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                            1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                            Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                            Appendix 5 29

                                            C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                            Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                            LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                            Women Microentrepreneurs

                                            National Training Institutes

                                            National Research Institute

                                            SIDBI

                                            NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                            National Resource Organization

                                            Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                            LELAs

                                            Ministry of Finance

                                            30 Appendix 5

                                            D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                            2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                            Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                            Appendix 5 31

                                            G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                            32 Appendix 6

                                            SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                            India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                            LendingFinancing Modality

                                            Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                            Department Division

                                            South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                            I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                            A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                            1 About 221 million people

                                            (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                            2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                            power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                            3

                                            Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                            4

                                            Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                            5

                                            B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                            1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                            Appendix 6 33

                                            51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                            2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                            II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                            A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                            6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                            to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                            B Consultation and Participation

                                            1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                            An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                            34 Appendix 6

                                            through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                            2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                            Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                            3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                            C Gender and Development

                                            1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                            Appendix 6 35

                                            assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                            Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                            III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                            Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                            Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                            Involuntary Resettlement

                                            No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                            No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                            framework No action

                                            Indigenous Peoples

                                            Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                            No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                            framework No action

                                            Labor Employment

                                            opportunities Labor

                                            retrenchment Core labor

                                            standards

                                            The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                                            Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                            No impact Action No action

                                            36 Appendix 6

                                            resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                            Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                            HIVAIDS Human

                                            trafficking Others

                                            No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                                            IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                            Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                            1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                            2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                            3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                            4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                            5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                            6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                            community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                            Source Asian Development Bank

                                            Appendix 7 37

                                            OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                            4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                            38 Appendix 7

                                            sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                            Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                            Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                            A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                            1 Initial consultations

                                            Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                            Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                            SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                            2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                            20 participantsstate 100 3

                                            3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                            Retailers 40

                                            Government 20

                                            Donors 20

                                            Other stakeholders 15

                                            B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                            1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                            SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                            MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                            50 3

                                            2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                            1200 3

                                            3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                            1200 3

                                            4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                            1200 3

                                            5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                            50 4

                                            6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                            50 4

                                            7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                            SIDBI 50 50 3

                                            Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                            Appendix 7 39

                                            C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                            40 Appendix 7

                                            grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                            600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                            person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                            Appendix 7 41

                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                            (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                            (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                            I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                            (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                            (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                            J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                            (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                            42 Appendix 7

                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                            13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                            • Appendixes
                                              • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                              • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                              • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                              • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                              • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                              • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                              • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                              Appendix 1 21

                                              Design Summary Performance Targets andor Indicators

                                              Data Sources andor Reporting

                                              Mechanisms

                                              Assumptions andor Risks

                                              Activities with Milestones 3 Develop financial services for low-income female microentrepreneurs

                                              (i) Provide financial contribution to SIDBIs credit guarantee scheme to reduce the costs of borrowing for selected low-income women microentrepreneurs (months 6ndash34)

                                              (ii) Develop MIS software for participating retailers (months 12ndash24)

                                              4 Effective monitoring and evaluation of results (i) Collect and analyze baseline data on a set of quantitative and qualitative

                                              indicators and effectively monitor them during grant implementation (ii) Assess the results of the activities in outputs 2 and 3 (months 1ndash3 and

                                              34ndash36) (iii) Disseminate findings and lessons learned from grant activities at national

                                              andor state-level workshops (months 24ndash34) (iv) Plan follow-up activities (month 36)

                                              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction MFI = microfinance institution MIS = management information system NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India SME = small or medium-sized enterprise 1 Gender and womenrsquos empowerment impact indicators will includemdashbut not be limited tomdashwomenrsquos economic

                                              status (eg increased access to banking services ownership and control of assets) womenrsquos sociocultural status (eg education and health-seeking behaviors and access to education and health facilities and services) and political status (eg participation in decision making at household and community levels and ability to influence gender norms and altering gender division of labor within the household)

                                              Source Asian Development Bank

                                              22

                                              Ap

                                              pe

                                              ndix

                                              2

                                              SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                              Component A

                                              Institutionalization of

                                              Gender-related Policies

                                              Strategies and Programs

                                              Component B

                                              Training of Stakeholders

                                              Involved in Womens

                                              Entrepreneurship

                                              Component C

                                              Financial Services for

                                              Low Income

                                              Microentrepreneurs

                                              Component D

                                              Effective Monitoring and

                                              Evaluation of Results

                                              Component E

                                              Project Administration

                                              Implementation Support

                                              Monitoring and Auditing

                                              Total

                                              (Input)Percent

                                              1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                              2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                              3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                              4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                              5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                              Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                              Government contribution 108000 108000

                                              Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                              Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                              Inputs Expenditure Category

                                              Grant Components

                                              1 includes duties and taxes

                                              JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

                                              Ap

                                              pe

                                              ndix

                                              3 23

                                              DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                              Units Per Unit US$

                                              AmountMethod of

                                              Procurement

                                              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                              11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                              111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                              (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                              112 Initital Consultations

                                              1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                              Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                              1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                              Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                              113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                              [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                              Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                              21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                              211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                              212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                              213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                              (2each)5000 5000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                              22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                              (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                              recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                              womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                              womensession $20day

                                              person-month

                                              (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                              222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                              223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                              retailersstate10800 10800

                                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                              23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                              231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                              training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                              person-month

                                              (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                              QBS or

                                              individual

                                              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                              CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                              24

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                                              pp

                                              en

                                              dix

                                              3

                                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                              Units Per Unit US$

                                              AmountMethod of

                                              Procurement

                                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                              Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                              232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                              Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                              Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                              24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                              241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                              (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                              242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                              (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                              Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                              243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                              (2each) 100

                                              90009000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                              Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                              Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                              25 Enterprise Financing

                                              251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                              252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                              2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                              (2each) 50

                                              90009000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                              Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                              Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                              32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                              Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                              assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                              person-month

                                              (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                              33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                              (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                              COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                              JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                                              Ap

                                              pe

                                              ndix

                                              3 25

                                              Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                              Units Per Unit US$

                                              AmountMethod of

                                              Procurement

                                              Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                              41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                              411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                              Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                              assessment)

                                              person-month

                                              (lump sum) 8

                                              10000 80000 80000

                                              412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                              Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                              (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                              Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                              Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                              42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                              Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                              Selection

                                              43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                              Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                              Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                              Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                              Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                              Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                              51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                              52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                              53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                              consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                              Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                              Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                              532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                              533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                              534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                              535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                              consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                              536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                              consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                              Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                              537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                              consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                              54 Equipment and supplies

                                              541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                              transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                              Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                              Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                              Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                              Communities

                                              CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                              JFPR Government Other Donors

                                              These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                              26 Appendix 4

                                              FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                              1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                              Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                              2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                              the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                              Appendix 4 27

                                              3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                              ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                              Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                              ADB

                                              $138754

                                              $1345458

                                              $438840

                                              $335066 Component D

                                              Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                              Component C Development of

                                              Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                              Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                              Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                              Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                              Component E

                                              Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                              $741882

                                              28 Appendix 5

                                              IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                              A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                              1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                              Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                              Appendix 5 29

                                              C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                              Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                              LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                              Women Microentrepreneurs

                                              National Training Institutes

                                              National Research Institute

                                              SIDBI

                                              NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                              National Resource Organization

                                              Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                              LELAs

                                              Ministry of Finance

                                              30 Appendix 5

                                              D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                              2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                              Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                              Appendix 5 31

                                              G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                              32 Appendix 6

                                              SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                              India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                              LendingFinancing Modality

                                              Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                              Department Division

                                              South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                              I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                              A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                              1 About 221 million people

                                              (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                              2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                              power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                              3

                                              Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                              4

                                              Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                              5

                                              B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                              1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                              Appendix 6 33

                                              51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                              2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                              II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                              A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                              6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                              to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                              B Consultation and Participation

                                              1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                              An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                              34 Appendix 6

                                              through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                              2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                              Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                              3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                              C Gender and Development

                                              1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                              Appendix 6 35

                                              assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                              Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                              III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                              Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                              Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                              Involuntary Resettlement

                                              No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                              No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                              framework No action

                                              Indigenous Peoples

                                              Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                              No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                              framework No action

                                              Labor Employment

                                              opportunities Labor

                                              retrenchment Core labor

                                              standards

                                              The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                                              Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                              No impact Action No action

                                              36 Appendix 6

                                              resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                              Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                              HIVAIDS Human

                                              trafficking Others

                                              No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                                              IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                              Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                              1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                              2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                              3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                              4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                              5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                              6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                              community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                              Source Asian Development Bank

                                              Appendix 7 37

                                              OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                              4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                              38 Appendix 7

                                              sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                              Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                              Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                              A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                              1 Initial consultations

                                              Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                              Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                              SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                              2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                              20 participantsstate 100 3

                                              3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                              Retailers 40

                                              Government 20

                                              Donors 20

                                              Other stakeholders 15

                                              B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                              1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                              SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                              MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                              50 3

                                              2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                              1200 3

                                              3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                              1200 3

                                              4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                              1200 3

                                              5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                              50 4

                                              6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                              50 4

                                              7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                              SIDBI 50 50 3

                                              Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                              Appendix 7 39

                                              C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                              40 Appendix 7

                                              grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                              600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                              person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                              Appendix 7 41

                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                              (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                              (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                              I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                              (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                              (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                              J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                              (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                              42 Appendix 7

                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                              13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                              • Appendixes
                                                • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                22

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                                                SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES

                                                Component A

                                                Institutionalization of

                                                Gender-related Policies

                                                Strategies and Programs

                                                Component B

                                                Training of Stakeholders

                                                Involved in Womens

                                                Entrepreneurship

                                                Component C

                                                Financial Services for

                                                Low Income

                                                Microentrepreneurs

                                                Component D

                                                Effective Monitoring and

                                                Evaluation of Results

                                                Component E

                                                Project Administration

                                                Implementation Support

                                                Monitoring and Auditing

                                                Total

                                                (Input)Percent

                                                1 Training (incl Workshops Seminars and Lateral Learning) 90900 1031800 66100 1188800 396

                                                2 Consulting Services (including Livelihood Enterprise Learning Advisors) 40000 237500 270000 250000 15000 812500 271

                                                3 Project Management 684889 684889 228

                                                4 Direct Interventions (financial services for the poor) 144000 144000 48

                                                5 Contingencies 7854 76158 24840 18966 41993 169811 57

                                                Subtotal JFPR Grant Financed1 138754 1345458 438840 335066 741882 3000000 1000

                                                Government contribution 108000 108000

                                                Beneficiaries contributions 15000 86700 5000 106700

                                                Total Estimated Costs 153754 1432158 438840 340066 849882 3214700

                                                Inputs Expenditure Category

                                                Grant Components

                                                1 includes duties and taxes

                                                JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Source Asian Development Bank

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                                                DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                Units Per Unit US$

                                                AmountMethod of

                                                Procurement

                                                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                                11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                                111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                112 Initital Consultations

                                                1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                                Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                                1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                                Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                                113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                                [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                                Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                                21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                                211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                                212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                                (2each)5000 5000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                                22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                                (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                                recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                                womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                                womensession $20day

                                                person-month

                                                (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                                222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                                223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                                retailersstate10800 10800

                                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                                23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                                231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                                training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                                person-month

                                                (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                                QBS or

                                                individual

                                                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                                CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

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                                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                Units Per Unit US$

                                                AmountMethod of

                                                Procurement

                                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                                Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                                232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                                Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                                Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                                24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                                241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                                (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                                (2each) 100

                                                90009000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                                25 Enterprise Financing

                                                251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                                (2each) 50

                                                90009000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                                Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                                32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                                Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                                person-month

                                                (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                                33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                                (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                                COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                                JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                                                Ap

                                                pe

                                                ndix

                                                3 25

                                                Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                Units Per Unit US$

                                                AmountMethod of

                                                Procurement

                                                Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                                41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                                411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                assessment)

                                                person-month

                                                (lump sum) 8

                                                10000 80000 80000

                                                412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                                Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                                Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                                Selection

                                                43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                                Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                                Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                                Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                                51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                                52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                                53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                                consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                                Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                                532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                                consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                                Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                                537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                                consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                                54 Equipment and supplies

                                                541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                                transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                                Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                                Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                                Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                                Communities

                                                CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                                JFPR Government Other Donors

                                                These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                                26 Appendix 4

                                                FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                                1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                                Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                                the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                                Appendix 4 27

                                                3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                ADB

                                                $138754

                                                $1345458

                                                $438840

                                                $335066 Component D

                                                Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                Component C Development of

                                                Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                Component E

                                                Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                $741882

                                                28 Appendix 5

                                                IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                Appendix 5 29

                                                C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                National Training Institutes

                                                National Research Institute

                                                SIDBI

                                                NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                National Resource Organization

                                                Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                LELAs

                                                Ministry of Finance

                                                30 Appendix 5

                                                D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                Appendix 5 31

                                                G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                32 Appendix 6

                                                SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                LendingFinancing Modality

                                                Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                Department Division

                                                South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                1 About 221 million people

                                                (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                3

                                                Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                4

                                                Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                5

                                                B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                Appendix 6 33

                                                51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                B Consultation and Participation

                                                1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                34 Appendix 6

                                                through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                C Gender and Development

                                                1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                Appendix 6 35

                                                assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                Involuntary Resettlement

                                                No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                framework No action

                                                Indigenous Peoples

                                                Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                framework No action

                                                Labor Employment

                                                opportunities Labor

                                                retrenchment Core labor

                                                standards

                                                The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                No impact Action No action

                                                36 Appendix 6

                                                resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                HIVAIDS Human

                                                trafficking Others

                                                No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                Source Asian Development Bank

                                                Appendix 7 37

                                                OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                38 Appendix 7

                                                sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                1 Initial consultations

                                                Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                Retailers 40

                                                Government 20

                                                Donors 20

                                                Other stakeholders 15

                                                B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                50 3

                                                2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                1200 3

                                                3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                1200 3

                                                4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                1200 3

                                                5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                50 4

                                                6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                50 4

                                                7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                Appendix 7 39

                                                C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                40 Appendix 7

                                                grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                Appendix 7 41

                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                42 Appendix 7

                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                • Appendixes
                                                  • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                  • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                  • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                  • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                  • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                  • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                  • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                  Ap

                                                  pe

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                                                  3 23

                                                  DETAILED COST ESTIMATES

                                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                                  AmountMethod of

                                                  Procurement

                                                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-related Policies Strategies and Programs Subtotal 145900 130900 15000

                                                  11 Recruitment of National Resource Organization (NRO) QBS

                                                  111 Stocktaking of gender-related policies strategies and programs

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                  112 Initital Consultations

                                                  1121 Initial stocktaking workshop [3 days 20 personseach]5000 5000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 3 1500 4500 4500

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 2000

                                                  Rental of rooms (200day 3 days) day 3 200 600 600

                                                  1122 Stocktaking results dissemination workshop [3 daysworkshop (5) 20 personseach] 5000 5000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 15 1000 15000 15000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 15 1500 22500 22500

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 100 100 10000 10000

                                                  Rental of rooms (200day) day 15 200 3000 3000

                                                  113Exchange and lateral learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states

                                                  [3 daysworkshops (3) 20 peopleeach]5000 5000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 middle-level staff day 9 1000 9000 9000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 10 senior level staff day 9 1500 13500 13500

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 60 100 6000 6000

                                                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days 3 workshops] day 9 200 1800 1800

                                                  Component B Training of Stakeholders involved in Womens Entrepreneurship Subtotal 1345200 1269300 75900

                                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 1)

                                                  21 Gender in Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship 3 days (incl 1 travel) 73100 65600

                                                  211 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                                  212 SIDBISFMC (wholesaler) 2500 2500

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 20 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 2000 8000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 20 100 2000 10300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                  213 Retailers (25)25 retailers

                                                  (2each)5000 5000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff 4 days day 4 5000 20000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 50 100 5000 25300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 2)

                                                  22Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs leadership and communication 3 days

                                                  (incl 1 travel)221 Recruitment of Training Institute 539100 517500 QBS

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting training collecting feedback)

                                                  recruitment of a team of 3 senior consultants (10 person-monthseach) 250

                                                  womenState 5 training sessionsState = 50 training sessions (3 years) 50

                                                  womensession $20day

                                                  person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 30 2500 75000 75000

                                                  222 Phase 1 (3 States) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                                  223Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating

                                                  retailersstate10800 10800

                                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 3) 465800 455000

                                                  23 Business Development Services (BDS) - Cluster Specific

                                                  231 Recruitment of Training Institute

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedback) 250 womenstate 5

                                                  training sessionsState (5) = 25 training sessions 50 womensession $20day

                                                  person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 5 2500 12500 12500

                                                  QBS or

                                                  individual

                                                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                                  CommunitiesGovernment Other DonorsJFPR

                                                  24

                                                  A

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                                                  en

                                                  dix

                                                  3

                                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                                  AmountMethod of

                                                  Procurement

                                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                                  232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                                  Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                                  Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                                  24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                                  241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                  242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                                  (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                  Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                  243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                                  (2each) 100

                                                  90009000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                  Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                  Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                                  25 Enterprise Financing

                                                  251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                  252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                  2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                                  (2each) 50

                                                  90009000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                  Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                                  Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                                  32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                                  Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                  assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                                  person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                                  33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                                  COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                                  JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

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                                                  ndix

                                                  3 25

                                                  Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                  Units Per Unit US$

                                                  AmountMethod of

                                                  Procurement

                                                  Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                                  41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                                  411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                  Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                  assessment)

                                                  person-month

                                                  (lump sum) 8

                                                  10000 80000 80000

                                                  412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                  Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                  (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                                  Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                  Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                  42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                                  Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                                  Selection

                                                  43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                                  Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                  Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                                  Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                                  Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                                  51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                                  52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                                  53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                                  consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                                  Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                  Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                                  532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                  533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                  534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                  535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                  consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                  536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                                  consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                                  Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                                  537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                                  consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                                  54 Equipment and supplies

                                                  541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                                  transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                                  Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                                  Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                                  Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                                  Communities

                                                  CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                                  JFPR Government Other Donors

                                                  These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                                  26 Appendix 4

                                                  FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                                  1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                                  Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                  2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                                  the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                                  Appendix 4 27

                                                  3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                  ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                  Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                  ADB

                                                  $138754

                                                  $1345458

                                                  $438840

                                                  $335066 Component D

                                                  Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                  Component C Development of

                                                  Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                  Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                  Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                  Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                  Component E

                                                  Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                  $741882

                                                  28 Appendix 5

                                                  IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                  A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                  1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                  Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                  Appendix 5 29

                                                  C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                  Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                  LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                  Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                  Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                  National Training Institutes

                                                  National Research Institute

                                                  SIDBI

                                                  NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                  National Resource Organization

                                                  Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                  LELAs

                                                  Ministry of Finance

                                                  30 Appendix 5

                                                  D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                  2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                  Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                  Appendix 5 31

                                                  G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                  32 Appendix 6

                                                  SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                  India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                  LendingFinancing Modality

                                                  Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                  Department Division

                                                  South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                  I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                  A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                  1 About 221 million people

                                                  (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                  2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                  power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                  3

                                                  Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                  4

                                                  Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                  5

                                                  B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                  1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                  Appendix 6 33

                                                  51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                  2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                  II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                  A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                  6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                  to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                  B Consultation and Participation

                                                  1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                  An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                  34 Appendix 6

                                                  through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                  2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                  Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                  3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                  C Gender and Development

                                                  1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                  Appendix 6 35

                                                  assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                  Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                  III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                  Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                  Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                  Involuntary Resettlement

                                                  No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                  No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                  framework No action

                                                  Indigenous Peoples

                                                  Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                  No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                  framework No action

                                                  Labor Employment

                                                  opportunities Labor

                                                  retrenchment Core labor

                                                  standards

                                                  The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                  Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                  No impact Action No action

                                                  36 Appendix 6

                                                  resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                  Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                  HIVAIDS Human

                                                  trafficking Others

                                                  No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                  IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                  Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                  1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                  2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                  3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                  4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                  5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                  6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                  community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                  Source Asian Development Bank

                                                  Appendix 7 37

                                                  OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                  4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                  38 Appendix 7

                                                  sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                  Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                  Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                  A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                  1 Initial consultations

                                                  Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                  Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                  SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                  2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                  20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                  3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                  Retailers 40

                                                  Government 20

                                                  Donors 20

                                                  Other stakeholders 15

                                                  B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                  1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                  SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                  MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                  50 3

                                                  2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                  1200 3

                                                  3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                  1200 3

                                                  4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                  1200 3

                                                  5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                  50 4

                                                  6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                  50 4

                                                  7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                  SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                  Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                  Appendix 7 39

                                                  C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                  40 Appendix 7

                                                  grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                  600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                  person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                  Appendix 7 41

                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                  (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                  (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                  I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                  (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                  (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                  J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                  (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                  42 Appendix 7

                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                  13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                  • Appendixes
                                                    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                    24

                                                    A

                                                    pp

                                                    en

                                                    dix

                                                    3

                                                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                    Units Per Unit US$

                                                    AmountMethod of

                                                    Procurement

                                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 45 5000 225000

                                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 750 50 37500 265500Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 30 100 3000

                                                    232 Phase 2 (2 states) Training of 5 groups (50 womengroup) from participating retailers 10800 10800

                                                    Lodge and boarding ($20day) 3 days day 30 5000 150000

                                                    Transportation costs (50person) person 500 50 25000 177000Rental of workshop rooms (100day 2 days) day 20 100 2000

                                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 4) 128600 110600

                                                    24 Technology and Appropriate Operations

                                                    241 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment)person-month

                                                    (lump sum) 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                    242 Technology (specific to MampE software) 4 days25 retailers

                                                    (2each) 100 9000 9000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                    Rental of rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                    243 Appropriate Operations (participating retailers) 4 days 25 retailers

                                                    (2each) 100

                                                    90009000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 50 100 5000 25300

                                                    Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 day) day 3 100 300

                                                    Recruitment of Training Institute (TI 5) 138600 120600

                                                    25 Enterprise Financing

                                                    251 Recruitment of Training Institute QBS

                                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact assessment) person-month 6 10000 60000 60000

                                                    252 Enterprise financing 4 days2521 Enterprise financing (targeting SIDBI) (wholesaler) 50 staff 50 9000 9000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                    2522 Enterprise financing (retailers) 4 days25 retailers

                                                    (2each) 50

                                                    90009000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 50 middle-level staff day 4 5000 20000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) person 100 100 10000 30300Rental of workshop rooms (100day 3 days) day 3 100 300

                                                    Component C Development of Financial Services for Low-Income Microentrepreneurs Subtotal 414000 41400031 Credit Guarantee Fund

                                                    Estimated number of loans 1200year $40year 3 years small loans 3600 40 144000 144000

                                                    32 Women Livelihoods Enterprise and Learning Advisers (LELA)

                                                    Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                    assessment) 4 LELAsState (20) (30 person-monthseach) $400month

                                                    person-month

                                                    (lump sum) 600 400 240000 240000

                                                    33 Recruitment of ITSoftware Consultant for Project-Specific Software person-month

                                                    (lump sum) 3 10000 30000 30000

                                                    COSTS CONTRIBUTIONS

                                                    JFPR Government Other Donors Communities

                                                    Ap

                                                    pe

                                                    ndix

                                                    3 25

                                                    Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                    Units Per Unit US$

                                                    AmountMethod of

                                                    Procurement

                                                    Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                                    41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                                    411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                    Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                    assessment)

                                                    person-month

                                                    (lump sum) 8

                                                    10000 80000 80000

                                                    412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                    Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                    (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                                    Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                    Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                    42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                                    Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                                    Selection

                                                    43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                                    Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                    Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                                    Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                                    Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                                    51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                                    52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                                    53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                                    consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                                    Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                    Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                                    532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                    533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                    534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                    535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                    consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                    536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                                    consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                                    Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                                    537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                                    consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                                    54 Equipment and supplies

                                                    541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                                    transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                                    Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                                    Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                                    Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                                    Communities

                                                    CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                                    JFPR Government Other Donors

                                                    These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                                    26 Appendix 4

                                                    FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                                    1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                                    Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                    2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                                    the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                                    Appendix 4 27

                                                    3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                    ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                    Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                    ADB

                                                    $138754

                                                    $1345458

                                                    $438840

                                                    $335066 Component D

                                                    Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                    Component C Development of

                                                    Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                    Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                    Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                    Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                    Component E

                                                    Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                    $741882

                                                    28 Appendix 5

                                                    IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                    A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                    1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                    Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                    Appendix 5 29

                                                    C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                    Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                    LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                    Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                    Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                    National Training Institutes

                                                    National Research Institute

                                                    SIDBI

                                                    NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                    National Resource Organization

                                                    Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                    LELAs

                                                    Ministry of Finance

                                                    30 Appendix 5

                                                    D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                    2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                    Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                    Appendix 5 31

                                                    G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                    32 Appendix 6

                                                    SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                    India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                    LendingFinancing Modality

                                                    Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                    Department Division

                                                    South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                    I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                    A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                    1 About 221 million people

                                                    (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                    2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                    power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                    3

                                                    Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                    4

                                                    Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                    5

                                                    B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                    1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                    Appendix 6 33

                                                    51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                    2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                    II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                    A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                    6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                    to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                    B Consultation and Participation

                                                    1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                    An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                    34 Appendix 6

                                                    through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                    2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                    Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                    3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                    C Gender and Development

                                                    1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                    Appendix 6 35

                                                    assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                    Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                    III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                    Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                    Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                    Involuntary Resettlement

                                                    No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                    No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                    framework No action

                                                    Indigenous Peoples

                                                    Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                    No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                    framework No action

                                                    Labor Employment

                                                    opportunities Labor

                                                    retrenchment Core labor

                                                    standards

                                                    The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                    Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                    No impact Action No action

                                                    36 Appendix 6

                                                    resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                    Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                    HIVAIDS Human

                                                    trafficking Others

                                                    No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                    IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                    Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                    1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                    2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                    3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                    4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                    5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                    6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                    community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                    Source Asian Development Bank

                                                    Appendix 7 37

                                                    OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                    4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                    38 Appendix 7

                                                    sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                    Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                    Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                    A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                    1 Initial consultations

                                                    Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                    Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                    SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                    2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                    20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                    3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                    Retailers 40

                                                    Government 20

                                                    Donors 20

                                                    Other stakeholders 15

                                                    B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                    1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                    SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                    MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                    50 3

                                                    2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                    1200 3

                                                    3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                    1200 3

                                                    4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                    1200 3

                                                    5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                    50 4

                                                    6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                    50 4

                                                    7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                    SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                    Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                    Appendix 7 39

                                                    C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                    40 Appendix 7

                                                    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                    Appendix 7 41

                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                    42 Appendix 7

                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                    • Appendixes
                                                      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                      Ap

                                                      pe

                                                      ndix

                                                      3 25

                                                      Code Supplies and Services Rendered Unit Quantity Cost TOTAL

                                                      Units Per Unit US$

                                                      AmountMethod of

                                                      Procurement

                                                      Component D Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results Subtotal 321100 316100 5000

                                                      41 Recruitment of National Research Institute (NRI) QBS

                                                      411 Conceptualization meeting organized by SIDBISFMC with NRI (10 persons) 3 days

                                                      Lodge and boarding (100day 3 dayseach) day 3 1000 3000 3000

                                                      Transportation costs (5000trip) trip 1 5000 5000 5000 Consulting services (developing imparting collecting feedbackimpact

                                                      assessment)

                                                      person-month

                                                      (lump sum) 8

                                                      10000 80000 80000

                                                      412 Setting and collection of baseline datainformation(a) Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                      Consultant [1 data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                      (b) Endline datainformation collection report writing and production

                                                      Recruitment of senior consultant (1) person-month 4 10000 40000 40000

                                                      Consultant [data collectorState = 5 (4 months)] person-month 20 1000 20000 20000

                                                      42 Establishment of Rating System for Microenterprises

                                                      Consulting services lump-sum 1 50000 50000 50000Single Source

                                                      Selection

                                                      43Final Consultations Organized by SIDBISFMC with NRO Retailers Government

                                                      Donors and Other Stakeholders [3 days 125 persons] 50005000

                                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 75 middle-level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                      Lodge and boarding (150day) 50 senior level staff day 3 7500 22500 22500

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) trip 125 100 12500 12500

                                                      Rental of workshop rooms [200day 3 days] day 3 200 600 600

                                                      Component E Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing Subtotal 807889 699889 108000

                                                      51 Project Management Cost month 36 2000 71089 71089

                                                      52 Meetings of Project Advisory Board [quarterly (9) [5 personseach] lump-sum 9 2000 18000 18000

                                                      53 Consulting Fees and Field Supervision CostsIndividual

                                                      consultant531 Project director person-month 36 1500 54000 54000

                                                      Lodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                      Transportation costs (250month) month 36 250 9000 9000

                                                      532 Training and capacity development specialist (GAD) person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                      533 Communications and outreach specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 10 daysmonth day 360 100 36000 36000

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                      534 Procurement and consulting service specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                      535 IT specialist person-month 36 850 30600 30600Individual

                                                      consultantLodge and boarding (100day) 5 daysmonth day 180 100 18000 18000

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 36 100 3600 3600

                                                      536 State project MampE coordinators (5) person-month 180 500 90000 90000Individual

                                                      consultantLodge and boarding (80day) 10 daysmonth day 1800 80 144000 144000

                                                      Transportation costs (100person) month 180 100 18000 18000

                                                      537 Appointment of auditorIndividual

                                                      consultantConsulting services lump-sum 15 15000 15000 15000

                                                      54 Equipment and supplies

                                                      541Office building and services (incl office space computersprinter urban city

                                                      transport and communication costs)unit 36 3000 108000 0 108000

                                                      Components A to E = Subtotal Subtotal 3034089 2830189 108000 95900

                                                      Contingency (Maximum 10 of total JFPR Contribution) 169811 169811

                                                      Total Grant Costs Total 3203900 3000000 108000 95900

                                                      Communities

                                                      CONTRIBUTIONSCOSTS

                                                      JFPR Government Other Donors

                                                      These amounts indicate the contribution of participants in workshops andor trainings calculated in terms of opportunity costs (30day for SIDBISFMC staff and 10day for women entrepreneurs BDS = business development services IT = Information technology JFPR = Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction LELA = livelihoods enterprise and learning advisers MampE = monitoring and evaluation MFI = microfinance institution NRI = national research institute NRO = national resource organization NTI = national training institute QBS = quality based selection SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India SFMC = SIDBI Foundation for Microcredit TI = training institute

                                                      26 Appendix 4

                                                      FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                                      1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                                      Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                      2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                                      the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                                      Appendix 4 27

                                                      3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                      ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                      Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                      ADB

                                                      $138754

                                                      $1345458

                                                      $438840

                                                      $335066 Component D

                                                      Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                      Component C Development of

                                                      Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                      Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                      Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                      Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                      Component E

                                                      Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                      $741882

                                                      28 Appendix 5

                                                      IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                      A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                      1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                      Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                      Appendix 5 29

                                                      C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                      Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                      LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                      Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                      Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                      National Training Institutes

                                                      National Research Institute

                                                      SIDBI

                                                      NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                      National Resource Organization

                                                      Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                      LELAs

                                                      Ministry of Finance

                                                      30 Appendix 5

                                                      D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                      2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                      Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                      Appendix 5 31

                                                      G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                      32 Appendix 6

                                                      SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                      India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                      LendingFinancing Modality

                                                      Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                      Department Division

                                                      South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                      I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                      A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                      1 About 221 million people

                                                      (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                      2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                      power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                      3

                                                      Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                      4

                                                      Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                      5

                                                      B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                      1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                      Appendix 6 33

                                                      51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                      2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                      II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                      A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                      6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                      to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                      B Consultation and Participation

                                                      1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                      An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                      34 Appendix 6

                                                      through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                      2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                      Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                      3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                      C Gender and Development

                                                      1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                      Appendix 6 35

                                                      assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                      Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                      III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                      Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                      Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                      Involuntary Resettlement

                                                      No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                      No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                      framework No action

                                                      Indigenous Peoples

                                                      Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                      No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                      framework No action

                                                      Labor Employment

                                                      opportunities Labor

                                                      retrenchment Core labor

                                                      standards

                                                      The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                      Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                      No impact Action No action

                                                      36 Appendix 6

                                                      resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                      Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                      HIVAIDS Human

                                                      trafficking Others

                                                      No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                      IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                      Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                      1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                      2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                      3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                      4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                      5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                      6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                      community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                      Source Asian Development Bank

                                                      Appendix 7 37

                                                      OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                      4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                      38 Appendix 7

                                                      sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                      Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                      Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                      A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                      1 Initial consultations

                                                      Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                      Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                      SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                      2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                      20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                      3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                      Retailers 40

                                                      Government 20

                                                      Donors 20

                                                      Other stakeholders 15

                                                      B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                      1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                      SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                      MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                      50 3

                                                      2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                      1200 3

                                                      3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                      1200 3

                                                      4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                      1200 3

                                                      5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                      50 4

                                                      6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                      50 4

                                                      7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                      SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                      Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                      Appendix 7 39

                                                      C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                      40 Appendix 7

                                                      grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                      600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                      person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                      Appendix 7 41

                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                      42 Appendix 7

                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                      • Appendixes
                                                        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                        26 Appendix 4

                                                        FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT 1 For this grant the Asian Development Bank (ADB) will channel the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) funds directly to a JFPR imprest account which will be established managed replenished and liquidated by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) in accordance with ADBrsquos Loan Disbursement Handbook (2007 as amended from time to time) and detailed arrangements agreed upon between the Government of India and ADB The implementing agency will adopt an imprest fund procedure wherein ADB makes an advance disbursement from the grant account for deposit to an imprest account at a commercial bank acceptable to ADB to be used exclusively for ADBrsquos share of eligible expenditures The amount to be deposited into the imprest account will not exceed 10 of the grant amount or 6-month estimated expenditures whichever is lower The statement of expenditures (SOE) procedure may be used for reimbursement of eligible expenditures and to liquidate advances provided into the imprest account provided that each individual payment does not exceed the equivalent of $10000 The payments in excess of the SOE ceiling will be replenished based on full supporting documentation SIDBI has established financial management capacity to institute adequate accounting procedures and controls to administer the imprest fund and SOE procedure1 2 Detailed implementation arrangements such as the flow replenishment and administrative procedures will be detailed in the grant administration memorandum and established through the JFPR letter of agreement2 Furthermore SIDBI will (i) maintain separate accounts for the JFPR grant (ii) have such accounts and related financial statements audited annually in accordance with appropriate auditing standards by an independent auditors acceptable to ADB (iii) furnish as soon as available but in any event not later than 6 months after the end of the fiscal year certified copies of these audited accounts financial statement and the report of the auditors relating thereto including auditorrsquos opinion on the use of the JFPR funds as well as on the use of the JFPR imprest account and SOE procedure provided under the grant and (iv) furnish to ADB such other information concerning such accounts and financial statements and the audit thereof as ADB requests

                                                        1 As indicated in the Financial Management Assessment of SIDBI attached to ADB 2009 Report and

                                                        Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                        2 Interest earned on the JFPR imprest accounts can be used for grant activities subject to ADBs approval within

                                                        the approved total amount of the grant Upon completion of the grant and before closing of the JFPR imprest account any unused interest will be returned to the JFPR fund account maintained at ADB If the remittance fee and other bank charges are higher than the amount of interest earned there will be no need to return such interest to the JFPR account maintained at ADB

                                                        Appendix 4 27

                                                        3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                        ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                        Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                        ADB

                                                        $138754

                                                        $1345458

                                                        $438840

                                                        $335066 Component D

                                                        Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                        Component C Development of

                                                        Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                        Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                        Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                        Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                        Component E

                                                        Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                        $741882

                                                        28 Appendix 5

                                                        IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                        A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                        1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                        Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                        Appendix 5 29

                                                        C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                        Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                        LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                        Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                        Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                        National Training Institutes

                                                        National Research Institute

                                                        SIDBI

                                                        NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                        National Resource Organization

                                                        Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                        LELAs

                                                        Ministry of Finance

                                                        30 Appendix 5

                                                        D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                        2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                        Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                        Appendix 5 31

                                                        G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                        32 Appendix 6

                                                        SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                        India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                        LendingFinancing Modality

                                                        Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                        Department Division

                                                        South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                        I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                        A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                        1 About 221 million people

                                                        (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                        2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                        power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                        3

                                                        Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                        4

                                                        Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                        5

                                                        B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                        1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                        Appendix 6 33

                                                        51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                        2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                        II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                        A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                        6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                        to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                        B Consultation and Participation

                                                        1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                        An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                        34 Appendix 6

                                                        through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                        2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                        Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                        3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                        C Gender and Development

                                                        1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                        Appendix 6 35

                                                        assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                        Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                        III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                        Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                        Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                        Involuntary Resettlement

                                                        No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                        No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                        framework No action

                                                        Indigenous Peoples

                                                        Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                        No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                        framework No action

                                                        Labor Employment

                                                        opportunities Labor

                                                        retrenchment Core labor

                                                        standards

                                                        The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                        Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                        No impact Action No action

                                                        36 Appendix 6

                                                        resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                        Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                        HIVAIDS Human

                                                        trafficking Others

                                                        No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                        IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                        Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                        1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                        2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                        3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                        4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                        5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                        6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                        community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                        Source Asian Development Bank

                                                        Appendix 7 37

                                                        OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                        4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                        38 Appendix 7

                                                        sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                        Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                        Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                        A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                        1 Initial consultations

                                                        Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                        Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                        SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                        2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                        20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                        3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                        Retailers 40

                                                        Government 20

                                                        Donors 20

                                                        Other stakeholders 15

                                                        B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                        1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                        SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                        MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                        50 3

                                                        2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                        1200 3

                                                        3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                        1200 3

                                                        4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                        1200 3

                                                        5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                        50 4

                                                        6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                        50 4

                                                        7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                        SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                        Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                        Appendix 7 39

                                                        C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                        40 Appendix 7

                                                        grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                        600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                        person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                        Appendix 7 41

                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                        (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                        (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                        I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                        (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                        (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                        J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                        (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                        42 Appendix 7

                                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                        • Appendixes
                                                          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                          Appendix 4 27

                                                          3 The funds flow arrangements are shown in Figure A4

                                                          ADB = Asian Development Bank SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank estimates

                                                          Figure A4 Fund Flow Arrangement

                                                          ADB

                                                          $138754

                                                          $1345458

                                                          $438840

                                                          $335066 Component D

                                                          Effective Monitoring and Evaluation of Results

                                                          Component C Development of

                                                          Financial Services for Low-Income Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                          Component A Institutionalization of Gender-Related Policies Strategies and Programs

                                                          Component B Training of Stakeholders Involved in Womens Entrepreneurship

                                                          Imprest Account held at SIDBI

                                                          Component E

                                                          Project Administration Implementation Support Monitoring and Auditing

                                                          $741882

                                                          28 Appendix 5

                                                          IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                          A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                          1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                          Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                          Appendix 5 29

                                                          C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                          Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                          LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                          Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                          Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                          National Training Institutes

                                                          National Research Institute

                                                          SIDBI

                                                          NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                          National Resource Organization

                                                          Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                          LELAs

                                                          Ministry of Finance

                                                          30 Appendix 5

                                                          D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                          2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                          Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                          Appendix 5 31

                                                          G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                          32 Appendix 6

                                                          SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                          India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                          LendingFinancing Modality

                                                          Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                          Department Division

                                                          South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                          I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                          A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                          1 About 221 million people

                                                          (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                          2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                          power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                          3

                                                          Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                          4

                                                          Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                          5

                                                          B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                          1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                          Appendix 6 33

                                                          51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                          2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                          II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                          A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                          6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                          to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                          B Consultation and Participation

                                                          1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                          An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                          34 Appendix 6

                                                          through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                          2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                          Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                          3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                          C Gender and Development

                                                          1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                          Appendix 6 35

                                                          assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                          Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                          III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                          Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                          Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                          Involuntary Resettlement

                                                          No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                          No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                          framework No action

                                                          Indigenous Peoples

                                                          Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                          No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                          framework No action

                                                          Labor Employment

                                                          opportunities Labor

                                                          retrenchment Core labor

                                                          standards

                                                          The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                          Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                          No impact Action No action

                                                          36 Appendix 6

                                                          resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                          Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                          HIVAIDS Human

                                                          trafficking Others

                                                          No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                          IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                          Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                          1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                          2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                          3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                          4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                          5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                          6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                          community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                          Source Asian Development Bank

                                                          Appendix 7 37

                                                          OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                          4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                          38 Appendix 7

                                                          sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                          Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                          Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                          A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                          1 Initial consultations

                                                          Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                          Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                          SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                          2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                          20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                          3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                          Retailers 40

                                                          Government 20

                                                          Donors 20

                                                          Other stakeholders 15

                                                          B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                          1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                          SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                          MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                          50 3

                                                          2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                          1200 3

                                                          3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                          1200 3

                                                          4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                          1200 3

                                                          5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                          50 4

                                                          6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                          50 4

                                                          7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                          SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                          Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                          Appendix 7 39

                                                          C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                          40 Appendix 7

                                                          grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                          600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                          person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                          Appendix 7 41

                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                          (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                          (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                          I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                          (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                          (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                          J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                          (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                          42 Appendix 7

                                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                          13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                          • Appendixes
                                                            • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                            • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                            • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                            • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                            • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                            • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                            • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                            28 Appendix 5

                                                            IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS

                                                            A Executing and Implementing Agencies 1 The Ministry of Finance will be the executing agency for this grant which will be implemented by the Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) through the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) The implementing agency must work in close collaboration with other government agencies for appropriate dissemination of best practices and lesson learning or replication SIDBI will also engage as needed with the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Women and Child Development The grant will finance the recruitment of the following additional staff members to be based at SIDBI office in Lucknow (i) a project director (ii) a training and capacity development specialist (iii) a communication and outreach specialist (iv) a procurement and consulting service specialist (v) six state project monitoring and evaluation (MampE) coordinators to be based in the participating states and (vi) 20 livelihood enterprise and learning advisors for women 2 Project advisory committee A project advisory committee composed of technical sector experts will be established to oversee grant implementation It will comprise the executive director of SIDBI the chief general manager of SFMC and a representative from the ADB India Resident Mission as well as technical sector experts invited on an ad hoc basis to advise the committee on current trends andor actions to be taken to ensure the achievement of the proposed objectives of the grant The committee will meet quarterly and outside experts will be provided a sitting fee It will also provide guidance to the project director in the implementation of the grant-funded activities and be informed on progress in carrying out grant activities B Coordination with Other Development Partners 3 The grant will be implemented in consultation with relevant government agencies (at central and state levels) and through iterative consultations with the gender or womens sections of relevant industry associations chambers of commerce and on a national level nongovernment organizations The Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro small and medium-sized enterprises but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income female entrepreneurs 4 The team met with the Embassy of Japan (Daiki Suemistu first secretary [finance]) and JICA (Keiji Katai representative) during the fact-finding mission for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises Development Project on 2 September and 21 October 1 Representatives of both the Embassy of Japan and JICA supported the rationale for the grant its pro-poor gender and capacity-building focus and its target of low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector Useful feedback was provided by the Embassy of Japan on the current impact of the global economic crisis in India and consensus was reached on the need to limit the proposed intervention to selected five lagging states JICA shared useful information on the six lines of credit provided to SIDBI in the past and shared with the team relevant information on impact assessments carried out by JICA on SIDBI-implemented projects

                                                            1 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial

                                                            Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                            Appendix 5 29

                                                            C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                            Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                            LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                            Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                            Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                            National Training Institutes

                                                            National Research Institute

                                                            SIDBI

                                                            NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                            National Resource Organization

                                                            Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                            LELAs

                                                            Ministry of Finance

                                                            30 Appendix 5

                                                            D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                            2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                            Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                            Appendix 5 31

                                                            G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                            32 Appendix 6

                                                            SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                            India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                            LendingFinancing Modality

                                                            Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                            Department Division

                                                            South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                            I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                            A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                            1 About 221 million people

                                                            (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                            2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                            power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                            3

                                                            Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                            4

                                                            Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                            5

                                                            B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                            1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                            Appendix 6 33

                                                            51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                            2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                            II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                            A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                            6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                            to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                            B Consultation and Participation

                                                            1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                            An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                            34 Appendix 6

                                                            through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                            2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                            Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                            3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                            C Gender and Development

                                                            1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                            Appendix 6 35

                                                            assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                            Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                            III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                            Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                            Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                            Involuntary Resettlement

                                                            No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                            No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                            framework No action

                                                            Indigenous Peoples

                                                            Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                            No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                            framework No action

                                                            Labor Employment

                                                            opportunities Labor

                                                            retrenchment Core labor

                                                            standards

                                                            The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                            Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                            No impact Action No action

                                                            36 Appendix 6

                                                            resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                            Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                            HIVAIDS Human

                                                            trafficking Others

                                                            No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                            IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                            Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                            1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                            2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                            3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                            4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                            5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                            6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                            community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                            Source Asian Development Bank

                                                            Appendix 7 37

                                                            OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                            4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                            38 Appendix 7

                                                            sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                            Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                            Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                            A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                            1 Initial consultations

                                                            Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                            Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                            SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                            2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                            20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                            3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                            Retailers 40

                                                            Government 20

                                                            Donors 20

                                                            Other stakeholders 15

                                                            B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                            1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                            SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                            MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                            50 3

                                                            2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                            1200 3

                                                            3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                            1200 3

                                                            4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                            1200 3

                                                            5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                            50 4

                                                            6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                            50 4

                                                            7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                            SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                            Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                            Appendix 7 39

                                                            C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                            40 Appendix 7

                                                            grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                            600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                            person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                            Appendix 7 41

                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                            (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                            (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                            I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                            (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                            (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                            J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                            (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                            42 Appendix 7

                                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                            13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                            • Appendixes
                                                              • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                              • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                              • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                              • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                              • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                              • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                              • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                              Appendix 5 29

                                                              C Implementation Schedule 5 The grant is to be implemented over a period of 36 months An inception mission will finalize the grant administration memorandum and review and endorse the proposed schedule of activities All disbursements under the grant will be implemented within this period

                                                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                              Source Supporting microentrepreneurship for womens empowerment in selected states

                                                              LELA = Livelihoods Enterprise amp Learning Advisers MFI = microfinance institution NBFC = nonbanking financial company SIDBI = Small Industries Bank of India Source Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment

                                                              Figure A5 Schematic Implementation Arrangement

                                                              Women Microentrepreneurs

                                                              National Training Institutes

                                                              National Research Institute

                                                              SIDBI

                                                              NBFC Microfinance institutions (MFIs)

                                                              National Resource Organization

                                                              Banks (including cooperative banks)

                                                              LELAs

                                                              Ministry of Finance

                                                              30 Appendix 5

                                                              D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                              2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                              Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                              Appendix 5 31

                                                              G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                              32 Appendix 6

                                                              SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                              India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                              LendingFinancing Modality

                                                              Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                              Department Division

                                                              South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                              I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                              A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                              1 About 221 million people

                                                              (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                              2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                              power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                              3

                                                              Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                              4

                                                              Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                              5

                                                              B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                              1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                              Appendix 6 33

                                                              51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                              2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                              II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                              A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                              6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                              to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                              B Consultation and Participation

                                                              1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                              An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                              34 Appendix 6

                                                              through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                              2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                              Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                              3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                              C Gender and Development

                                                              1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                              Appendix 6 35

                                                              assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                              Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                              III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                              Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                              Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                              Involuntary Resettlement

                                                              No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                              No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                              framework No action

                                                              Indigenous Peoples

                                                              Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                              No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                              framework No action

                                                              Labor Employment

                                                              opportunities Labor

                                                              retrenchment Core labor

                                                              standards

                                                              The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                              Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                              No impact Action No action

                                                              36 Appendix 6

                                                              resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                              Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                              HIVAIDS Human

                                                              trafficking Others

                                                              No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                              No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                              IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                              Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                              1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                              2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                              3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                              4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                              5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                              6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                              community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                              Source Asian Development Bank

                                                              Appendix 7 37

                                                              OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                              4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                              38 Appendix 7

                                                              sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                              Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                              Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                              A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                              1 Initial consultations

                                                              Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                              Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                              SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                              2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                              20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                              3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                              Retailers 40

                                                              Government 20

                                                              Donors 20

                                                              Other stakeholders 15

                                                              B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                              1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                              SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                              MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                              50 3

                                                              2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                              1200 3

                                                              3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                              1200 3

                                                              4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                              1200 3

                                                              5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                              50 4

                                                              6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                              50 4

                                                              7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                              SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                              Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                              Appendix 7 39

                                                              C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                              40 Appendix 7

                                                              grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                              600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                              person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                              Appendix 7 41

                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                              (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                              (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                              I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                              (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                              (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                              J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                              (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                              42 Appendix 7

                                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                              13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                              • Appendixes
                                                                • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                30 Appendix 5

                                                                D Procurement and Consulting Services 6 All procurement under the grant will be in accordance with ADBs Procurement Guidelines (2007 as amended from time to time) SFMC will select and subcontract national resource organizations and research and training institutes in compliance with ADBs Guidelines on the Use of Consultants (2007 as amended from time to time) in accordance with the quality-based selection method The terms of reference for consulting services are given in Appendix 7 The services of the Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be retained in accordance with the single source selection method E Environmental and Social Safeguards 7 As the activities will focus on strengthening the capacity of female microentrepreneurs to access financial resources services and market opportunities there will be no social or environmental safeguard issues2 F Monitoring and Supervision 8 The implementing agency will establish an MampE system to assess the social and gender equality results of financed activities of this grant In particular the implementing agency will be responsible for documentation of changes in the lives of female entrepreneurs with respect to mutually agreed upon variables with SIDBI and participating retailers capacity-building training to monitor comprehension retention and application through periodic surveys with women entrepreneurs and software to document the disbursement of loans to microenterprises using sex-disaggregated data and to capture increase in applications and repayment rates of female microentrepreneurs from baseline to grant end 9 The baseline and grant end data will include quantitative and qualitative indicators agreed with SIDBI at grant onset and effectively monitored during project implementation including changes in number and percentage of entrepreneurs who move into a higher part of the value chain change in womens or household income expenditure consumption and nutritional status access to medical facilities and health care and self-confidence An impact assessment consisting of primary data collection at baseline and grant end will be conducted by the national research institute 10 With a view to mainstreaming financing of the missing middle and providing additional comfort to the lending institutions the rating of microenterprises will be developed The Small and Medium Enterprises Rating Agency (SMERA) will be recruited to develop test and implement a rating module targeting the specific needs of microenterprises Once developed and tested it could be used for rating at a fee The costs of rating of some of the targeted female microenterprises in the identified five states will also be covered

                                                                2 An environmental appraisal of SFMC activities was carried out by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia

                                                                Delhi covering areas such as identifying environmental risks associated with some of the most relevant activities funded through the SFMC microfinance route developing a format for identifying these risks and drawing up some simple guidelines on risk mitigation The appraisal covered 15 partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) of the bank located in and around Bhubaneswar Chennai Hyderabad and Kolkata The same has been advised to all SFMC partner MFIs and it has been impressed upon them to implement the same in the larger interests of the sector The items that form the restrictive list for general financing under the guidelines of the bank include chemical dyes and dye intermediates industrial oxygen distilleries and industries consuming or producing ozone-depleting substances As an additional safeguard SIDBI and its partner MFIs will apply the ADB-prohibited investment activity list to screen loan applications from microentrepreneurs

                                                                Appendix 5 31

                                                                G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                                32 Appendix 6

                                                                SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                                India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                                LendingFinancing Modality

                                                                Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                                Department Division

                                                                South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                                I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                                1 About 221 million people

                                                                (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                                2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                                power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                                3

                                                                Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                                4

                                                                Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                5

                                                                B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                                1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                                Appendix 6 33

                                                                51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                                2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                                II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                                6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                                to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                                B Consultation and Participation

                                                                1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                                An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                                34 Appendix 6

                                                                through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                                2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                                Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                                3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                                C Gender and Development

                                                                1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                                Appendix 6 35

                                                                assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                framework No action

                                                                Indigenous Peoples

                                                                Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                framework No action

                                                                Labor Employment

                                                                opportunities Labor

                                                                retrenchment Core labor

                                                                standards

                                                                The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                No impact Action No action

                                                                36 Appendix 6

                                                                resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                HIVAIDS Human

                                                                trafficking Others

                                                                No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                Appendix 7 37

                                                                OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                38 Appendix 7

                                                                sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                1 Initial consultations

                                                                Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                Retailers 40

                                                                Government 20

                                                                Donors 20

                                                                Other stakeholders 15

                                                                B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                50 3

                                                                2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                1200 3

                                                                3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                1200 3

                                                                4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                1200 3

                                                                5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                50 4

                                                                6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                50 4

                                                                7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                Appendix 7 39

                                                                C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                40 Appendix 7

                                                                grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                Appendix 7 41

                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                42 Appendix 7

                                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                • Appendixes
                                                                  • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                  • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                  • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                  • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                  • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                  • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                  • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                  Appendix 5 31

                                                                  G Reporting Requirements 11 The implementing agency will prepare brief bimonthly progress reports addressing grant implementation progress issues and concerns The reports should be concise and kept to a maximum of 5 pages Reports should be circulated by email to the executing agencies the Ministry of Finance and ADB ADB requires that a semiannual JFPR status report be submitted SIDBI has a comprehensive internal audit system as well as a statutory audit conducted by external auditors as mandated by the SIDBI Act ADB Internal Audit Department undertakes on a periodic basis the operational and management audit of ADBrsquos operations pertaining to all departments including SFMC The Reserve Bank of India the central bank of the country also undertakes audits of SIDBIrsquos operations from time to time The financial statements of SIDBI as at the end of the financial year are audited by the statutory auditors

                                                                  32 Appendix 6

                                                                  SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                                  India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                                  LendingFinancing Modality

                                                                  Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                                  Department Division

                                                                  South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                                  I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                  A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                                  1 About 221 million people

                                                                  (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                                  2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                                  power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                                  3

                                                                  Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                                  4

                                                                  Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                  5

                                                                  B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                                  1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                                  Appendix 6 33

                                                                  51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                                  2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                                  II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                  A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                                  6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                                  to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                                  B Consultation and Participation

                                                                  1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                                  An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                                  34 Appendix 6

                                                                  through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                                  2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                                  Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                                  3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                                  C Gender and Development

                                                                  1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                                  Appendix 6 35

                                                                  assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                  Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                  III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                  Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                  Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                  Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                  No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                  No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                  framework No action

                                                                  Indigenous Peoples

                                                                  Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                  No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                  framework No action

                                                                  Labor Employment

                                                                  opportunities Labor

                                                                  retrenchment Core labor

                                                                  standards

                                                                  The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                  Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                  No impact Action No action

                                                                  36 Appendix 6

                                                                  resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                  Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                  HIVAIDS Human

                                                                  trafficking Others

                                                                  No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                  No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                  IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                  Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                  1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                  2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                  3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                  4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                  5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                  6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                  community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                  Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                  Appendix 7 37

                                                                  OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                  4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                  38 Appendix 7

                                                                  sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                  Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                  Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                  A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                  1 Initial consultations

                                                                  Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                  Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                  SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                  2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                  20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                  3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                  Retailers 40

                                                                  Government 20

                                                                  Donors 20

                                                                  Other stakeholders 15

                                                                  B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                  1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                  SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                  MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                  50 3

                                                                  2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                  1200 3

                                                                  3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                  1200 3

                                                                  4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                  Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                  250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                  1200 3

                                                                  5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                  50 4

                                                                  6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                  2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                  50 4

                                                                  7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                  SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                  Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                  Appendix 7 39

                                                                  C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                  40 Appendix 7

                                                                  grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                  600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                  person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                  Appendix 7 41

                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                  (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                  (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                  I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                  (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                  (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                  J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                  (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                  42 Appendix 7

                                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                  13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                  • Appendixes
                                                                    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                    32 Appendix 6

                                                                    SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY

                                                                    India Supporting Microentrepreneurship for Womens Empowerment in Selected States

                                                                    LendingFinancing Modality

                                                                    Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction Project

                                                                    Department Division

                                                                    South Asia Department Financial Sector Public Management and Trade Division

                                                                    I POVERTY ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                    A Link to the National Poverty Reduction Strategy and Country Partnership Strategy Despite recent rapid economic growth poverty in India is widespread with the nation estimated to have one of the largest concentrations of poor people in the world and to house one third of the worlds poor According to the criterion used by the Planning Commission of India 275 of the population (or nearly 302 million people) were living below the poverty line in 2004ndash2005 down from 513 in 1977ndash1978 and 36 in 1993ndash1994 marking a pace of reduction less than 1 per year

                                                                    1 About 221 million people

                                                                    (72 of the poor) live in rural areas and most depend on subsistence farming for their livelihood Among them 59 are small landholders marginal farmers and landless labors two thirds of agricultural laborers are women Rural poverty was 283 and urban poverty was 257 in 2004ndash2005 An estimated 343 of the people lived on less than $1 per day in 2004ndash2005 with 804 of people living on less than $2 per day

                                                                    2 According to the World Banks new estimates based on purchasing

                                                                    power parity exchange rates and domestic prices for 2005 42 of the population lived on less than $125 per day in 2005 compared with 499 in 1993ndash1994 The new estimate also shows that 756 people lived on less than $2 per day in 2005

                                                                    3

                                                                    Poverty in India is partly attributed to the overconcentration of the workforce in agriculture with corresponding low productivity In 2007 about 56 of the total population depended on agriculture while agriculture contributed 18 to the gross national product It is anticipated that the slowdown of the growth momentum will have implications for poverty The proposed Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) grant is in line with the priorities set out by the government in its 11th five-year plan which considers the micro and small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) sector and more specifically the importance assigned to the support for womenrsquos empowerment in the Prime Ministerrsquos 15-point program and in other flagship schemes of the government

                                                                    4

                                                                    Support for inclusive growth and catalyzing investment through innovative financing modalities are two of the strategic pillars of the India country partnership strategy (CPS footnote d) The CPS emphasizes the need for promoting financial sector and SME development and supporting gender equity issues and concerns With respect to SME development the CPS explicitly states that (i) the provision of information markets technology and business development services should include mechanisms to promote womens and their enterprises participation and (ii) gender-based barriers to access finance should be analyzed and addressed (footnote a p 203) The grant responds to the commitment to gender-inclusive financial sector and SME development set out in the CPS by engaging with Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) and its partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) in further advancing their commitment to pro-poor social gender-inclusive focus of their operations while at the same time addressing the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income female entrepreneurs The grant is attached to the (upcoming) Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project which supports micro and SME access to term finance The grant will complement the proposed approach under the project by providing much-needed capacity development support to low-income women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                    5

                                                                    B Poverty Analysis Targeting Classification General intervention

                                                                    1 Key Issues The micro and SME sector is a microcosm of all vulnerabilitiesmdashit touches upon the lives of minorities women belonging to castes and tribes in the villages and in the urban slums and in the deprived pockets of flourishing towns and cities For many families it is the only source of livelihood For others it supplements family income Women are mostly found in the unregistered sectormdashfood-processing enterprises manufacturing enterprises and weavingmdashand often work part-time in family enterprises Female-led enterprises are micro- and small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than

                                                                    Appendix 6 33

                                                                    51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                                    2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                                    II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                    A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                                    6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                                    to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                                    B Consultation and Participation

                                                                    1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                                    An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                                    34 Appendix 6

                                                                    through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                                    2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                                    Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                                    3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                                    C Gender and Development

                                                                    1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                                    Appendix 6 35

                                                                    assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                    Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                    III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                    Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                    Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                    Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                    No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                    No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                    framework No action

                                                                    Indigenous Peoples

                                                                    Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                    No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                    framework No action

                                                                    Labor Employment

                                                                    opportunities Labor

                                                                    retrenchment Core labor

                                                                    standards

                                                                    The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                    Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                    No impact Action No action

                                                                    36 Appendix 6

                                                                    resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                    Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                    HIVAIDS Human

                                                                    trafficking Others

                                                                    No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                    No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                    IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                    Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                    1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                    2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                    3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                    4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                    5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                    6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                    community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                    Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                    Appendix 7 37

                                                                    OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                    4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                    38 Appendix 7

                                                                    sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                    Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                    Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                    A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                    1 Initial consultations

                                                                    Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                    Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                    SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                    2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                    20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                    3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                    Retailers 40

                                                                    Government 20

                                                                    Donors 20

                                                                    Other stakeholders 15

                                                                    B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                    1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                    SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                    MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                    50 3

                                                                    2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                    1200 3

                                                                    3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                    1200 3

                                                                    4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                    Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                    250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                    1200 3

                                                                    5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                    50 4

                                                                    6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                    2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                    50 4

                                                                    7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                    SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                    Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                    Appendix 7 39

                                                                    C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                    40 Appendix 7

                                                                    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                    Appendix 7 41

                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                    42 Appendix 7

                                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                    • Appendixes
                                                                      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                      Appendix 6 33

                                                                      51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or as members of a cooperative society In India rural enterprises owned by women are smaller younger and more likely to be informal and home-based Female entrepreneurs are less educated and have significantly less access to medium- to long-term credit Banks and other financial institutions generally prefer large enterprise clients because of the lower transaction costs and greater availability of collateral Some of the micro and SMEs also fall outside the reach of microfinance schemes and are thus compelled to depend more on informal sources of funds at higher interest rates The lack of positive attitude and confidence of loan officers in female entrepreneurs managerial skills further affects their access to credit It has been estimated that the limited credit availability for micro and SMEs in India resulted in the loss of 30 million person-days of potential employment over a 5-year study period

                                                                      2 Design Features The Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project will ensure that different segments of micro and SMEs are reached The smaller and newer micro and small enterprises will be targeted through the loan to SIDBI while the larger medium-sized enterprises that have limited access to bank finance will be targeted under the partial credit guarantee facility The two financing methods effectively complement each other The partial credit guarantee component will not only help expose Indias public sector banks to the international capital markets and facilitate capital market development it will also bring in additional funds for the micro and SME sector which has great potential to support income and employment generation The additionality is important especially in the context of the governments enhanced borrowing programmdashpartly a result of its stimulus packagemdashand the concerns of crowding out that it has raised Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggests that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit available to microentrepreneurs (predominantly women) who want to graduate from MFI support and move into the formal (financial) sector With this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to specifically help low-income female entrepreneurs Based on extensive interaction with government nongovernment and other civil society organizations the need to provide dedicated capacity development support to low-income female microentrepreneurs was identified as critical These needs will be addressed through proposed technical assistance to be financed by JFPR In addition to the stated capacity development initiatives the grant will support innovative approaches to promoting womens microentrepreneurship in selected states with high poverty levels and weak capacity

                                                                      II SOCIAL ANALYSIS AND STRATEGY

                                                                      A Findings of Social Analysis The debate on financial services to poor and low-income households in India has revolved around the rural population since the time that banks were first nationalized Unlike rural financial intermediation flow of financial resources to urban populations was never a matter of serious debate in India The tendency among microfinance intermediaries to move toward urban centers came only after it was found that rural markets were reaching a saturation point Still now the self-help groupsrsquo bank linkage model remains predominantly a rural phenomenon The first targeted credit program with focus on enterprise and a self-employment opportunity in urban areas was launched in 1989 during the 7th five-year plan period (1985ndash1990) Various urban poverty alleviation schemes with a credit focus introduced in India since 1989 reveal a top-down approach broadly speaking

                                                                      6 Credit flow from formal financial institutions

                                                                      to urban population groups steadily increased in India since the 1970s and this has come to be concentrated in large cities and larger credit brackets Though the social banking efforts of the central bank and the government financial intermediation in rural areas has also gone through a phase of expansion the low-income asset holding segments of urban areas have largely been bypassed by such overall expansion in financial intermediation While the statersquos poverty alleviation approach has steadily expanded from mere provision of basic amenities and services to facilitating creation of income earning opportunities it has failed to make any significant impact on the urban poor

                                                                      B Consultation and Participation

                                                                      1 Provide a summary of the consultation and participation (CampP) process during project preparation

                                                                      An initial stakeholder analysis was carried out by the ADB team and stakeholders were identified

                                                                      34 Appendix 6

                                                                      through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                                      2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                                      Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                                      3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                                      C Gender and Development

                                                                      1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                                      Appendix 6 35

                                                                      assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                      Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                      III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                      Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                      Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                      Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                      No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                      No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                      framework No action

                                                                      Indigenous Peoples

                                                                      Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                      No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                      framework No action

                                                                      Labor Employment

                                                                      opportunities Labor

                                                                      retrenchment Core labor

                                                                      standards

                                                                      The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                      Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                      No impact Action No action

                                                                      36 Appendix 6

                                                                      resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                      Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                      HIVAIDS Human

                                                                      trafficking Others

                                                                      No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                      No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                      IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                      Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                      1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                      2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                      3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                      4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                      5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                      6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                      community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                      Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                      Appendix 7 37

                                                                      OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                      4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                      38 Appendix 7

                                                                      sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                      Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                      Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                      A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                      1 Initial consultations

                                                                      Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                      Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                      SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                      2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                      20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                      3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                      Retailers 40

                                                                      Government 20

                                                                      Donors 20

                                                                      Other stakeholders 15

                                                                      B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                      1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                      SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                      MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                      50 3

                                                                      2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                      1200 3

                                                                      3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                      1200 3

                                                                      4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                      Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                      250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                      1200 3

                                                                      5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                      50 4

                                                                      6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                      2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                      50 4

                                                                      7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                      SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                      Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                      Appendix 7 39

                                                                      C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                      40 Appendix 7

                                                                      grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                      600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                      person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                      Appendix 7 41

                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                      42 Appendix 7

                                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                      • Appendixes
                                                                        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                        34 Appendix 6

                                                                        through intensive consultation with relevant staff at ADB headquarters and the India Resident Mission At the government level the SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit is one of the most active and innovative players involved in targeting the specific needs faced by women microentrepreneurs in India In addition the Ministry of Agro and Rural Industries Ministry of Small Scale Industries and Ministry of Women and Child Development have programs targeting the needs and constraints faced by women making available dedicated credit lines and a range of capacity-building initiatives The Ministry of Women and Child Development has also been implementing the National Credit Fund for Women (Rashtriya Mahila Kosh) which provides microfinance services and consumption and production loans without collateral requirements to low-income women for livelihood activities housing family needs and microenterprise With respect to the private sector confederations of industries have been active in supporting capacity-building initiatives among their members These include the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India Confederation of Indian Industry Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry Federation of Indian Micro and Small and Medium Enterprises and Federation of Small and Medium Industries Among the nongovernment agencies the team identified the Self Employed Womens Association as one of the most relevant MFIs In terms of training institutes the Indian School of Microfinance for Women has been implementingmdashamong othersmdasha range of rather innovative programs with a strong gender focus Agence Franccedilaise de Deacuteveloppement Department for International Development of the United Kingdom GTZ International Finance Corporation Japan International Cooperation Agency KfW and World Bank have all been involved in the promotion of micro and SMEs but with no specific gender focus andor targeting of low-income women entrepreneurs

                                                                        2 What level of CampP is envisaged during the project implementation and monitoring

                                                                        Information sharing Consultation Collaborative decision making Empowerment

                                                                        3 Was a CampP plan prepared Yes No Please explain The grant will promote consultation among different stakeholders which include the government (at both central and state levels) staff from SIDBI partner MFIs nonbanking financial companies and banks (including cooperative banks) clients womenrsquos civil society nongovernment organizations and associations and networks of female entrepreneurs CampP approaches will be mainstreamed in all aspects of grant activities which include stocktaking workshops and stocktaking results dissemination workshops as well as exchange and lateral-learning initiatives among SIDBI retailers in selected states (component A) A broad range of training and capacity development activities (component B) will also be carried out and will use participatory approaches and methods A communications and outreach specialist will be recruited at SIDBI to ensure effective communication and outreach to SIDBI staff stakeholders and partners (component E) In this context and considering that no negative safeguard issues or any other negative social impacts will arise from the grant there is no need to set up a CampP plan Participatory approaches will be mainstreamed in every aspect of the grant activities

                                                                        C Gender and Development

                                                                        1 Key Issues Female enterprises are small-scale enterprises managed by one or more women as a proprietary concern or in which she or they individually or jointly have a share capital of not less than 51 as partners shareholders directors of a private limited company or members of a cooperative society Evidence collected during the fact-finding mission and discussions with various government agencies the private sector and multilateral and bilateral donors suggest that the credit crunch arising from the global economic crisis has accentuated the shortage of credit for low-income female microentrepreneursmdashespecially located in urban andor periurban settingsmdashwith severe repercussions on livelihoods Micro and SMEs benefit women both directly in terms of wages and indirectly by supplementing family incomes reducing drudgery and providing sustainable social capital In particular when womenrsquos incomes increase the entire household benefits Hence it makes sense to invest in the economic empowerment of women Against this backdrop offering financing alone will not be sufficient to target the specific needs and constraints faced by low-income women entrepreneurs The need to support capacity development interventions was discussed and agreed as critical through the finalization of a grant-financed technical

                                                                        Appendix 6 35

                                                                        assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                        Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                        III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                        Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                        Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                        Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                        No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                        No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                        framework No action

                                                                        Indigenous Peoples

                                                                        Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                        No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                        framework No action

                                                                        Labor Employment

                                                                        opportunities Labor

                                                                        retrenchment Core labor

                                                                        standards

                                                                        The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                        Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                        No impact Action No action

                                                                        36 Appendix 6

                                                                        resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                        Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                        HIVAIDS Human

                                                                        trafficking Others

                                                                        No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                        No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                        IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                        Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                        1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                        2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                        3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                        4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                        5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                        6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                        community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                        Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                        Appendix 7 37

                                                                        OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                        4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                        38 Appendix 7

                                                                        sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                        Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                        Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                        A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                        1 Initial consultations

                                                                        Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                        Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                        SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                        2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                        20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                        3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                        Retailers 40

                                                                        Government 20

                                                                        Donors 20

                                                                        Other stakeholders 15

                                                                        B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                        1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                        SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                        MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                        50 3

                                                                        2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                        1200 3

                                                                        3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                        1200 3

                                                                        4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                        Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                        250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                        1200 3

                                                                        5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                        50 4

                                                                        6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                        2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                        50 4

                                                                        7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                        SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                        Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                        Appendix 7 39

                                                                        C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                        40 Appendix 7

                                                                        grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                        600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                        person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                        Appendix 7 41

                                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                        (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                        (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                        I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                        (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                        (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                        J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                        (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                        (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                        42 Appendix 7

                                                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                        • Appendixes
                                                                          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                          Appendix 6 35

                                                                          assistance for capacity development support to female entrepreneurs operating in the informal sector This aspect would be addressed through the establishment of a technical assistance facility that would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector 2 Key Actions

                                                                          Gender plan Other actionsmeasures No actionmeasure The grant will adopt a two-pronged approach to address gender-related issues as follows (i) ordinary capital resources loan of which at least 30 will be earmarked for lending to qualified female microentrepreneurs and (ii) the JFPR grant whereby a technical assistance facility would provide capacity development to women entrepreneurs in the unorganized sector

                                                                          III SOCIAL SAFEGUARD ISSUES AND OTHER SOCIAL RISKS

                                                                          Issue SignificantLimited No Impact

                                                                          Strategy to Address Issue Plan or Other Measures Included in Design

                                                                          Involuntary Resettlement

                                                                          No Impact No involuntary resettlement will be triggered

                                                                          No impact Full plan Short plan Resettlement

                                                                          framework No action

                                                                          Indigenous Peoples

                                                                          Limited Impact No adverse issues related to indigenous peoples or ethnic minorities are anticipated Rather female indigenous peoples will benefit from expanded access to financial resources and services through the target interventions to female-led micro and SMEs

                                                                          No impact Plan Other action Indigenous peoples

                                                                          framework No action

                                                                          Labor Employment

                                                                          opportunities Labor

                                                                          retrenchment Core labor

                                                                          standards

                                                                          The grant will promote greater access of women microentrepreneurs (mostly unorganized sector workers) to financial services Training and capacity development initiatives will introduce notions of gender awareness labor rights and core labor standards and contribute to greater knowledge and possibly application of such standards

                                                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                          Affordability The grant will promote greater access of female-led micro and SMEs to affordable financial

                                                                          No impact Action No action

                                                                          36 Appendix 6

                                                                          resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                          Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                          HIVAIDS Human

                                                                          trafficking Others

                                                                          No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                          No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                          IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                          Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                          1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                          2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                          3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                          4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                          5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                          6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                          community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                          Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                          Appendix 7 37

                                                                          OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                          4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                          38 Appendix 7

                                                                          sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                          Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                          Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                          A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                          1 Initial consultations

                                                                          Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                          Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                          SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                          2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                          20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                          3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                          Retailers 40

                                                                          Government 20

                                                                          Donors 20

                                                                          Other stakeholders 15

                                                                          B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                          1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                          SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                          MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                          50 3

                                                                          2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                          1200 3

                                                                          3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                          1200 3

                                                                          4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                          Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                          250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                          1200 3

                                                                          5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                          50 4

                                                                          6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                          2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                          50 4

                                                                          7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                          SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                          Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                          Appendix 7 39

                                                                          C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                          40 Appendix 7

                                                                          grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                          600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                          person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                          Appendix 7 41

                                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                          (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                          (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                          I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                          (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                          (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                          J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                          (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                          (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                          42 Appendix 7

                                                                          (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                          (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                          (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                          13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                          • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                          • Appendixes
                                                                            • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                            • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                            • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                            • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                            • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                            • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                            • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                            36 Appendix 6

                                                                            resources and services and thus possibly to contribute to reducing the costs and prices of manufactured goods and services

                                                                            Other Risks andor Vulnerabilities

                                                                            HIVAIDS Human

                                                                            trafficking Others

                                                                            No other risks or vulnerabilities have been identified

                                                                            No impact Plan Other action No action

                                                                            IV MONITORING AND EVALUATION

                                                                            Are social indicators included in the design and monitoring framework to facilitate monitoring of social development activities andor social impacts during project implementation Yes No

                                                                            1 Government of India 2007 Eleventh Five-Year Plan 2007-2012 Delhi

                                                                            2 United Nations Development Programme 2007 Human Development Index New York

                                                                            3 httpiresearchworldbankorgPovcalNetjspindexjsp

                                                                            4 ADB 2009 Country Partnership Strategy India 2009ndash2012 Manila (p 106)

                                                                            5 ADB 2009 Report and Recommendation of the President to the Board of Directors Proposed Loan and Partial Credit Guarantee to India for the Micro Small and Medium-Sized Enterprise Development Project Manila

                                                                            6 Swarna Jayanti Shahari Rozgar Yojana is the first such urban scheme launched by the government in which

                                                                            community-based organizations especially ones for poor urban women were recognized as the critical points of delivery of benefits

                                                                            Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                            Appendix 7 37

                                                                            OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                            4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                            38 Appendix 7

                                                                            sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                            Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                            Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                            A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                            1 Initial consultations

                                                                            Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                            Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                            SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                            2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                            20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                            3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                            Retailers 40

                                                                            Government 20

                                                                            Donors 20

                                                                            Other stakeholders 15

                                                                            B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                            1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                            SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                            MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                            50 3

                                                                            2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                            1200 3

                                                                            3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                            1200 3

                                                                            4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                            Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                            250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                            1200 3

                                                                            5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                            50 4

                                                                            6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                            2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                            50 4

                                                                            7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                            SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                            Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                            Appendix 7 39

                                                                            C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                            40 Appendix 7

                                                                            grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                            600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                            person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                            Appendix 7 41

                                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                            (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                            (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                            I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                            (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                            (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                            J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                            (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                            (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                            42 Appendix 7

                                                                            (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                            (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                            (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                            13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                            • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                            • Appendixes
                                                                              • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                              • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                              • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                              • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                              • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                              • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                              • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                              Appendix 7 37

                                                                              OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE 1 The implementation team will be composed of SIDBI-based national consultants (i) one project director (36 person-months) (ii) one training and capacity development specialist (36 person-months) (iii) one advocacy and communications outreach specialist (36 person-months) (iv) one contracting and procurement specialist (36 person-months) (v) five state project coordinators (36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) (vi) 20 women livelihood enterprise learning advisors (30 person-months each or 600 person-months) and (vii) one information technology expert (36 person-months) SIDBI will also recruit (a) one national research institute [monitoring and evaluation expert (8 person-months) and data collectors (5 8 person-months each or 40 person-months total] (b) one national resource organization [capacity development expert (4 person-months)] (c) five training institutes [gender microfinance and microentrepreneurship experts (50 person-months)] to undertake needs assessment baseline research develop MampE and implement capacity development activities of partner MFIs The identity and qualifications of each of the proposed consultants will be detailed by each short-listed national resource organization and research and training institute in its simplified technical proposal as this will be given significant weight in evaluation of such proposals Finally an accounting firm [auditor (15 person-months)] will be retained to carry out the audit requirements of the Japan Fund for Poverty Reduction (JFPR) Specific terms of reference are outlined below A Project Director (36 person-months) 2 The project director will be responsible for the administration and management of all activities under the grant The consultant will manage the implementation team and be responsible for ensuring the coordination of all initiatives under the grant with emphasis on (i) ensuring the timely engagement of all implementation teams consultants (ii) managing the consultants effectively through the promotion of teamwork exchange and cross-fertilization of experience among team members (iii) ensuring the timely and effective implementation of all grant activities with emphasis on adequate sequencing (iv) documenting social and gender-related results and (v) promoting effective exchange of information among team members with SIDBI at its headquarters in Lucknow Delhi and other relevant branches The consultant will report to the general manager of SIDBI Foundation for Micro Credit (SFMC) andor any other staff assigned by the SFMC chief general manager 3 In addition the project director will develop and maintain a good working relationship with relevant agencies and function as the main contact between the grant SIDBI the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and ADBs India Resident Mission partner microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks Main activities include overseeing the procurement of goods and services and the recruitment of partnering research resource and training institutes The consultant will also be responsible for the withdrawal of funds to implement all grant-related activities The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) at least 10 years of experience in managing team and stakeholder relations (iii) experience with international projects (iv) a high degree of independence and responsibility (v) a result-oriented fact-based management approach and (vi) excellent interpersonal and communication skills B Training and Capacity Development Specialist (36 person-months)

                                                                              4 The training and capacity development specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the organization

                                                                              38 Appendix 7

                                                                              sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                              Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                              Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                              A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                              1 Initial consultations

                                                                              Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                              Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                              SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                              2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                              20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                              3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                              Retailers 40

                                                                              Government 20

                                                                              Donors 20

                                                                              Other stakeholders 15

                                                                              B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                              1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                              SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                              MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                              50 3

                                                                              2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                              1200 3

                                                                              3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                              1200 3

                                                                              4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                              Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                              250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                              1200 3

                                                                              5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                              50 4

                                                                              6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                              2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                              50 4

                                                                              7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                              SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                              Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                              Appendix 7 39

                                                                              C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                              40 Appendix 7

                                                                              grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                              600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                              person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                              Appendix 7 41

                                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                              (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                              (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                              I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                              (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                              (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                              J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                              (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                              (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                              42 Appendix 7

                                                                              (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                              (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                              (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                              13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                              • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                              • Appendixes
                                                                                • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                                38 Appendix 7

                                                                                sequencing oversight and management of all training activities financed under the grant through direct interaction with national resource organizations research and training institutes that will be retained under the grant The consultant will liaise with relevant staff members of SIDBI partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full input in the finalization of the training programs and modules their information about available training opportunities and their information on available training modules regularly update solicit interest and monitor the availability of relevant staff before finalizing the training schedule proactively support an environment of knowledge sharing and contribute to develop the attitudes needed to bring about the desired organizational changes within SIDBI partner MFIs and banks The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience in capacity development of business associations (iii) an ability to organize own workload and work without constant supervision (iv) experience in supporting the capacity development of training staff and (v) experience andor a good theoretical knowledge of MFI management and organizational structures

                                                                                Table A7 Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                                Topic Target Participants Participants Total Days

                                                                                A Knowledge Generation Management and Dissemination

                                                                                1 Initial consultations

                                                                                Initial stocktaking workshop (1) SIDBI 20 participants 20 3

                                                                                Stocktaking results dissemination workshop (6)

                                                                                SIDBI 20 participants 100 3

                                                                                2 Exchange and lateral learning (3) SIDBI (wholesaler) MFI (retailer)

                                                                                20 participantsstate 100 3

                                                                                3 Final consultations (1) SIDBI 30 125 3

                                                                                Retailers 40

                                                                                Government 20

                                                                                Donors 20

                                                                                Other stakeholders 15

                                                                                B Training and Capacity Development Initiatives

                                                                                1 Gender in microfinance and entrepreneurship (1)

                                                                                SIDBI (wholesaler) 20 20 4

                                                                                MFI (retailers) 2 participants each retailer (25)

                                                                                50 3

                                                                                2 Financial literacy for microentrepreneurs (6)

                                                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                                1200 3

                                                                                3 Leadership and communication (6) Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                                1200 3

                                                                                4 Business development services Cluster-specific (3 cluster trainingstate)

                                                                                Women microentrepreneurs

                                                                                250 participants in 5 selected States

                                                                                1200 3

                                                                                5 MampE software training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                                50 4

                                                                                6 Appropriate operations training (1) Participating retailers

                                                                                2 participants each Retailer (25)

                                                                                50 4

                                                                                7 Enterprise financing (1)

                                                                                SIDBI 50 50 3

                                                                                Retailers 50 50 3 MampE = monitoring amp evaluation MFI = microfinance institution SIDBI = Small Industries Development Bank of India Source Asian Development Bank

                                                                                Appendix 7 39

                                                                                C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                                40 Appendix 7

                                                                                grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                                600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                                person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                Appendix 7 41

                                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                                (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                                (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                                (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                42 Appendix 7

                                                                                (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                                (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                                • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                                • Appendixes
                                                                                  • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                  • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                  • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                  • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                  • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                  • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                  • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                                  Appendix 7 39

                                                                                  C Advocacy and Communications Outreach Specialist (36 person-months) 5 The communications and outreach specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will perform the following tasks (i) assist the project director and other team members in building partnerships with SIDBI retail MFIs and banks with emphasis on promoting greater awareness and access by partner MFIs to female microentrepreneurs in the ―missing middle (ii) develop the grantrsquos communication and outreach strategy with particular focus to each of the target groups (iii) assist the implementation team in increasing the awareness and commitment of decision makers to gender equity and womens empowerment (iv) assist in promoting public awareness on grant-related aspects through mass media and communications (v) participate in and oversee the elaboration of promotional materials (vi) handle information dissemination and awareness-raising activities (vii) assist in organization of all grant-related workshops and seminars and (viii) organize and oversee public awareness campaigns under the grant The required qualifications are (i) an advanced university degree in public administration economics andor social sciences (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems D Contracting and Procurement Specialist (36 person-months) 6 The contracting and procurement specialist will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultant will be responsible for the financial administration of the grant and provide the project director with budgetary financial management accounting and administrative services support by designing implementing and supervising prerequisite budgetary financial accounting and administrative systems in conformity with the requirements of SIDBI the comptroller and auditor general of India ADB and JFPR The consultant will draft terms of references for expert(s) andor specialized service provider(s) under the grant participate in the selection process and make arrangements to obtain the necessary funds from the joint ADBndashJFPR imprest account The consultant will also establish and maintain imprest and other accounts acceptable to the government and ADB ensure appropriate systems for financial control and maintain checks and balances in respect to all financial matters and expenditure items He or she should prepare recurrent and capital expenditure budgets for the grant in line with approved funding arrangements The required qualifications are (i) academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management (ii) 5 years of relevant experience at the national or international level in public relations communications or advocacy (iii) previous experience with a multilateral or international organization and (iv) experience in the use of computers and office software packages and good knowledge and experience in handling of web-based management systems E State Project Coordinators (5 36 person-months each or 180 person-months total) 7 The state project coordinators will work under the overall supervision of (and report to) the project director The consultants will be located in relevant SIDBI branches in participating states They will be responsible for (i) ensuring the adequate implementation of the grant at the state level through day-to-day interaction with the project director and implementation team (ii) liaising with all state partner MFIs and banks to ensure their full information and knowledge about the training capacity development and innovative financial services provided under the

                                                                                  40 Appendix 7

                                                                                  grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                                  600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                                  person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                  Appendix 7 41

                                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                  (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                                  (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                  I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                  (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                                  (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                  J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                  (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                                  (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                  42 Appendix 7

                                                                                  (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                                  (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                  (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                  13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                                  • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                                  • Appendixes
                                                                                    • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                    • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                    • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                    • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                    • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                    • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                    • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                                    40 Appendix 7

                                                                                    grant (iii) developing and updating procedural guidelines on livelihood programming and incorporating lessons learned during implementation (iv) advising and facilitating strengthening of collaborations at various levels with rights-based groups for their effective access to the opportunities and benefits provided by the ADB loan and related grant and other financial resources and services (v) collecting and documenting promising practices and (vi) interacting with the livelihood enterprise learning advisors in all areas related to the performance of their mandates The required qualification is academic experience in accounting business finance law contracts purchasing economics industrial management marketing quantitative methods or organization and management F Women Livelihood Enterprise and Learning Advisors (20 30 person-months each or

                                                                                    600 person-months total) 8 The advisors (20 in partner MFIs) will be located in participating MFIs in the five selected states The responsibility of each will include (i) assisting in identifying the female microentrepreneurs for the grant (ii) helping them with respect to the use of the credit taken (iii) advising them on the running of their enterprise and overseeing repayment of credit and (iv) helping them in their capacity development The presence of the advisors will ensure careful selection of the clients repayment and proper use of credit The advisors will also build relationships of trust with female entrepreneurs and obviate the need for collateral on the part of the lenders The required qualification is academic experience in social sciences economics and business or finance (preferably with formal training on gender and development) G Information Technology Expert (36 person-months) 9 The information technology expert will have overall responsibility of all hardware and software aspects of the proposed JFPR grant The consultant will review the systems of the participating institutions with a view to bringing uniformity in the technology used The consultant will provide support to the monitoring and evaluation expert in designing and supervision of monitoring tools for tracking quantitative and qualitative deliverables under the grant and for impact evaluation The required qualification is academic experience in computer software and management information systems development and practical experience in project MampE H Monitoring and Evaluation Expert (8 person-months) and Data Collectors (5 8

                                                                                    person-months each or 40 person-months total) 10 A national research institute will be engaged to conduct monitoring and evaluation and impact assessment of the grant The Team will be composed of (a) Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist (8 person-months) with research capacities and experience in conducting high-quality rigorous research who will be responsible for preparing the monitoring framework in consultation with SIDBI and other key stakeholders and (b) Data Collectors (5 8 person-monthseach) who will be carrying out the baseline and endline data collection following proper sampling procedures and undertaking the sample process in the entire survey Included in the framework is a list of qualitative and quantitative indicators and issues to be covered methodology for collecting data and a schedule of execution It will cover impacts such as improvement in household income and expenditure living conditions access to health care facilities and changes in gender relations and well-being of target groups The institute will also carry out a baseline survey and prepare baseline and grant end data Output from this task will be the baseline and grant end data report final consultations and an impact assessment report To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                    Appendix 7 41

                                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                    (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                                    (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                    I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                    (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                                    (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                    J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                    (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                                    (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                    42 Appendix 7

                                                                                    (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                                    (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                    (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                    13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                                    • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                                    • Appendixes
                                                                                      • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                      • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                      • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                      • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                      • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                      • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                      • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                                      Appendix 7 41

                                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                      (ii) have published a wide range of social development and gender-related academic research and action-research reports in local languages andor in English of international quality

                                                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to relevant publications and events and

                                                                                      (iv) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                      I Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) 11 A national resource organization will be engaged to conduct a gender scan and stocktaking exercise of SIDBI and its partner retailers MFIs and other stakeholders An in-house Capacity Development Expert (4 person-months) with research andor training capacities will be responsible for developing a methodology and conducting a gender-related capacity needs assessment for the stocktaking and will inform the design of initiatives set forth in components A and B The output from this task will be a report of stocktaking results from the initial consultations and a capacity needs assessment to be used as reference for the capacity-development initiatives of the grant To be eligible for funding the national resource organization must

                                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have operated for at least 5 years and have a thorough understanding of microfinance and microenterprise

                                                                                      (ii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks

                                                                                      (iii) have experience in vocational and skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in assessing the social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                      J Gender Microfinance and Microentrepreneurship Experts (50 person-months) 12 A national training institute will be engaged to conduct activities set forth in component B The institute will have extensive training capacities and experience in conducting high-quality training for microfinance and microenterprise institutions with an ability to identify and attract high-quality resource persons The Team will be composed of (a) Gender in microfinance and microentrepreneurship expert (3 person-months) (b) Financial literacy for microentrepreneurship leadership and communication expert (30 person-months) (c) Business Development Services expert (5 person-months) and (d) Software and Microfinance Expert (6 person-months) and (e) Enterprise financing expert (6 person-months) Output from this task is the completion of the five training initiatives organized across the five participating states To be eligible for funding the institute must

                                                                                      (i) be a not-for-profit organization have worked on microfinance and micro enterprises for at least 5 years

                                                                                      (ii) have experience in microfinance and microenterprise skills training with a demonstrated record in gender programming

                                                                                      42 Appendix 7

                                                                                      (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                                      (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                      (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                      13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                                      • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                                      • Appendixes
                                                                                        • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                        • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                        • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                        • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                        • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                        • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                        • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

                                                                                        42 Appendix 7

                                                                                        (iii) have long-term presence and credibility within microfinance and microenterprise groups and national gender networks demonstrated by its contribution to them

                                                                                        (iv) have a track record of collaborative partnerships with national and possibly with provincial or district government agencies in building the capacity of social and gender-related aspects of development and

                                                                                        (v) maintain a proper accounting and financial system and have been audited annually

                                                                                        13 In the interests of the gender-sensitivity training developed based upon the needs assessment the resource and training organization may be the same to ensure customization and relevance to SIDBI and SIDBI partners However due to the possibility of a conflict of interest the research and training organizations must be different entities K Auditor (15 months) 14 A public accounting firm will be engaged to conduct an annual internal audit of grant accounts covering all operations at all levels The key internal audit functions will be to ascertain (i) whether the operating systems of internal checks and controls are effective (ii) the reliability of financial and physical reports (iii) the extent to which the systems in place prevent misuse of grant assets and (iv) that the financial rules and procedures of ADB are followed The auditors will be required to provide a report to the implementation team highlighting findings of the audit The audit will be conducted in accordance with internationally accounting and auditing standards and financial reporting systems The scope of annual auditing should encompass the examination and evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the internal control system and the quality of performance in carrying out assigned responsibilities Annual auditors must (i) review the reliability and integrity of financial and operating information and the means used to identify measure classify and report such information (ii) review the grant accounts and procurement procedures to check compliance with ADB and government guidelines (iii) review the means of safeguarding the assets including civil works goods equipment consultancy services and other aspects procured under the grant and as appropriate verify the existence of such assets (iv) appraise the economy and efficiency with which grant resources are employed and (v) review the grant activities to ascertain whether results are consistent with established objectives and targets and whether they are being carried out as planned The public accounting firm will submit reports annually within 1 month after completion of the audit at the end of each financial year to the project director with a copy to the Ministry of Finance and ADBrsquos India Resident Mission The report should contain a letter indicating the purpose scope results and major findings of the audit and an expression of the audit opinion

                                                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal
                                                                                        • JFPR Grant Proposal Background Information
                                                                                        • Appendixes
                                                                                          • DESIGN AND MONITORING FRAMEWORK
                                                                                          • SUMMARY OF COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                          • DETAILED COST ESTIMATES
                                                                                          • FUND FLOW ARRANGEMENT
                                                                                          • IMPLEMENTATION ARRANGEMENTS
                                                                                          • SUMMARY POVERTY REDUCTION AND SOCIAL STRATEGY
                                                                                          • OUTLINE OF TERMS OF REFERENCE

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