Professional Documents
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4. Group meetings are one of the essential Group meetings are not included as
elements of group loans and a an essential element in DAZ
session/meeting should be held at least guidelines however, it is mentioned
once a month. that if the local board wants to take an
update on the development of a
project, it can invite the group leaders
to attend Local Board meetings and
provide such updates.
5. In terms of repayment, the MREDF policy The terms for repayment as DAZ is
suggests the concept of collective different from MREDF in that it does
responsibility approach where if a group not base on collective responsibility
member is unable to make the repayment, rather it has different terms in case of
other members will hold responsible for inability to make repayments such as
repayment. If other members are also extending the date, payment through
unable to repay, then the amount will be an exchange of goods, or cancellation
recovered from the guarantor. of debt, etc.
6. Under the heading conflict, it is mentioned No such condition is mentioned for
that Local board members can join the board members in DAZ and no
group loan; however, they cannot be a guideline for conflict resolution is
group leader and shall not be involved in the mentioned in DAZ.
local board's application approval process.
Moreover, in case of conflict, the local board
can formulate and implement its policies.
7. A strong code of conduct to be followed by Code of conduct is missing in DAZ
the group members is mentioned in the guidelines.
MREDF policy. Mainly, each group member
needs to be a strong follower of Christ.
8. In the repayment structure section of A specific repayment period is of 1 to
MREDF financial terms, it is mentioned that 3 years is mentioned in DAZ
each group can decide if they want to repay guidelines which will depend on the
every week or every month. range of the loan amount applied.