This report covers the mid-term evaluation of the ‘Making Access to Finance More Inclusive for Poor People’ (MAFIPP) program in Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR); a program implemented and partly funded by the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) with cofinancing from Australia’s Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
With a USD 9.7 million budget and a duration of seven and a half years, the program aims to increase “access to financial services by low- income households and micro-entrepreneurs on a sustainable basis to an additional 408,000 active users of financial services by end 2017, with a minimum of 300,000 additional active users”.