Asia & Caucasus

ECLOF has been working in Asia since 1959 when ECLOF Myanmar was opened. Today, ECLOF serves about 30,000 clients in Asia. 80% of them are women and 82% live in rural areas. The majority of loans are given to solidarity groups of like-minded entrepreneurs or farmers coming together to learn from each other, co-guarantee each other’s loan and grow together.

Around 60% of ECLOF’s loans in Asia finance agriculture, mostly smallholder farmers or cattle breeders. That is why many non-financial services ECLOF offers in Asia respond to the needs of an agricultural clientele: by providing hands-on training on organic agriculture in the Philippines, by offering farming loans in the post-conflict areas of Northern Sri Lanka, or by training women in rural India on dairy production.

ECLOF also has a growing outreach in the Caucasus region: financing micro and small enterprises in Georgia and predominantly rural, often agricultural clients in Armenia.

Key data

USD 12.4 million outstanding portfolio
29,575 clients

USD 145 average group loan
USD 644 average individual loan
USD 2,129 average institutional loan

36 branches
334 staff
56% loan officers

Loan Portfolio Composition

17%

Group

76%

Individual

7%

Institutional

Social Outreach

80%

Women

16%

Youth

82%

Rural

59%

Agricultural

ECLOF in Asia

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