Microfinance and street children: is microfinance an appropriate tool to address the street children issue ?

• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
• preliminary chapter:
  
• INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
  
  • I. Introduction
    
  • II. Methodology
    
    • 1. Preliminary field visits
      
    • 2. Field research
      
    • 2.1. Basic data collection and research design (Week 1)
      
    • 2.2. Qualitative data collection (Weeks 2 to 4)
      
    • 2.3. Quantitative data extraction (Week 5)
      
  • 3. Secondary data:
    This consists of all our literature review and provides additional sources of inspiration.
    
• CHAPTER 1: The Street Children Issue
  What do we know about street children?
  
• 1. DEFINING STREET CHILDREN
  
• 2. CHARACTERISTICS
  
  • 2.1. About their family
    
  • 2.2. About their gender
    
  • 2.3. About their economic activities
    
  • 2.4. About their vulnerability
    
  • 2.5. About their capacities
    
• 3. CAUSES OF THE STREET CHILDREN ISSUE
  
• 4. CONSEQUENCES, OR WHY IT MERITS OUR ATTENTION?
  
• 5. SOME IDEOLOGICAL ISSUES: CAN (STREET) CHILDREN WORK?
  
  • 5.1. Child labour and child work: definitions
    
  • 5.2. Ideological considerations
    
• CHAPTER 2: DEMAND ANALYSIS
  WHY DO STREET CHILDREN NEED
  FINANCIAL SERVICES?
  
• 1. CONTEXT
  
  • 1.1. Bangladesh in brief
    
  • 1.2. Street children in Bangladesh
    
• 2. OBJECTIVES
  
• 3. METHODOLOGY
  
• 4. DATA ANALYSIS
  
  • 4.1. Entering their financial world: the first steps...
    
    • What is money? A poem written by Mohidul Kooser Samim Jibon
      
  • 4.2. Street children economic activities
    
  • 4.3. Why do street children need savings?
    
    • 4.3.1. The street life insecurity
      
    • 4.3.2. Life-cycle needs:
      
    • 4.3.3. Emergencies
      
    • 4.3.4. Opportunities
      
    • Consolidated analysis
      
  • 4.4. Why do street children need credit?
    
    • 4.4.1. For their income generating activities
      
    • 4.4.2. For their families' income generating activities
      
    • 4.4.3. For their future
      
    • 4.4.4. «We do not need credit»
      
    • Consolidated analysis
      
• CHAPTER 3: DEMAND VS. SUPPLY
  HOW BEST TO MATCH MICROFINANCE
  WITH STREET CHILDREN?
  
• 1. MICROFINANCE: A WAY TO SUPPLY FINANCIAL SERVICES TO POOR PEOPLE
  
  • 1.1. Products: credit, savings and insurance nexus
    
  • 1.2. Mechanisms
    
    • 1.2.1. Group lending
      
    • 1.2.2. Dynamic incentives
      
    • 1.2.3. Frequent repayment schemes
      
    • 1.2.4. Collateral substitutes
      
• 2. HOW BEST TO MATCH MICROFINANCE WITH STREET CHILDREN
  
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    2.1. Prevalence of microfinance for street children
    
    • 2.1.1. Introduction
      
    • 2.1.2. Why do MFIs and YSOs avoid street children?
      
    • 2.1.3. Case studies
      
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  • 2.2. Effectiveness and sustainability: the trade-off
    
    • 2.2.1. Effectiveness
      
    • 2.2.2. Sustainability
      
  • 2.3. How best to match microfinance with street children?
    
    • 2.3.1. Financial services
      
    • 2.3.2. Supporting services: the need for vocational training
      
    • 2.3.3. Operational requirement: social services
      
  • Our first chapter outlined how street children, even if they have high capacities, are vulnerable, having therefore basic and urgent needs to fulfil first. Social interventions for street children are therefore aimed at responding to the various developmental needs of the street children.
    
    • 2.3.4. A comprehensive microfinance plus framework: Financial services, supporting services and social services nexus
      
    • 2.3.5. Effectiveness, sustainability and provision model
      
  • 2.4. Case study: Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra (PMUK)
    
    • 2.4.1. Program Profile
      
      • Now, twenty years have passed, and Padakhep is present in 166 locations of 53 districts, both in rural and urban areas of the country
        
        • Organogram of Padakhep Manabik Unnayan Kendra
          
        • General Board (21members)
          
        • Consist of 21 Member
          
        • SUMMARIZING PADAKHEP STREET CHILDREN INTERVENTION (from Padakhep, nd (a))
          
        • PERSONAL hygiene
          
        • HYGIENE
          
    • Health
      
    • Nutrition
      
      • Advocacy and Gender
        
  • Counseling
    
    • SAVINGS AND CREDIT
      
    • 2.4.2. Program Effectiveness
      
    • 2.4.3. Program sustainability
      
    • 2.4.4. A cross-cutting issue: Outreach vs. Effectiveness vs. Sustainability
      
    • 2.4.5. Some recommendations
      
• FINAL WORDS:
  CONCLUSION AND FUTURE PERSPECTIVES
  
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• Dunford C. (2001), «Building better lives, sustainable integration of microfinance and education in child survival, reproductive health, and HIV/Aids prevention for the poorest entrepreneurs»,