SMALL ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT

The Small Enterprise Development Co., Ltd., or well-known "SED", provides several microfinancial services for both group-lending and individual-lending. Its key service is the group-lending through a village bank (VB) established by a poor woman to practice regularly saving and provide financial services to improve their livelihood... In 1997, the SED provided a new lending service, Direct Lending, by lending directly to the target group to improve its investment and build financial sustainability for the organization and village bank. During this phase, the CRS cooperated with the Microfinance Alliance for Global Impact (MAGI) to develop SED's strategy and study on marketing to create a new financial product. Furthermore, in 2004, the SED, as a consortium with NET Foundation and Raks Thai Foundation implemented the Social Support Project (SSP) funded by European Union (EU) building capacity on micro-finance for clients of Bank for Agriculture and Agricultural Cooperatives (BAAC) in..

Also known as: Small Enterprise Development Co., Ltd.

Primary location: Surin Thailand