Working Paper on Indigenous Peoples' Credit and Savings, Biodiversity Conseration Network (BCN) and ESSC, July 1997

Five groups of indigenous people (IPs) gathered to share their experiences on savings and credit practices.The aim of the workshop was to examine practices of each community and find ways of understanding savings and credit within the context of indigenous culture.

CONTENTS

• Cover and Table of Contents
• Executive Summary and Introduction
• Chapter 2: IPs share experiences on Credit and Savings
  • How the IPs save
  • Credit Practices of the IPs
    
• Chapter 2 - continuation
  • Land and Forest Resources
  • Trading in the IP communities
• Chapter 3: An Anthropologist's perspectives
• Chapter 4: The Financial Sector's Program
• Chapter 5: Learnings
  • IPs Concept of Savings
  • Credit and the IPs
  • IPs Different Levels of Credit Needs
  • The Land and Natural Resources Role in Credit
    
• Chapter 5 - continuation
  • IP-friendly Savings and Micro-credit Programs
    
• Chapter 6: Conclusions
• Acronyms - Abbreviations - Annexes