Rural financial results package document -- strategic objective #1 : expanded access and economic opportunity for El Salvador"s rural poor

The RP is numbered 3a under the Mission"s Strategic Objective #1, which is "Expanded Equitable Access to Financial Services by the Rural Poor". It has an expected duration of 6 years and comprises five existing activities and several new activities. The five existing activities to receive funding under the RP are: (1) Microenterprise Development (FINCA/CAM -- 5190318), which began 8/90 and ends 8/97; (2) Equitable Rural Economic Growth (CRECER -- 5190397), which began 9/95 and ends 5/2000; (3) Microenterprise 2000 (5190434), which runs from 9/96 to 9/2000; (4) in-country activities of the Microenterprise Innovation Program (MIP -- 9400406), which began 9/95 and ends 9/98; and (5) Small Enterprise Support (PROPEMI -- 5190387), which began 9/93 and ends 5/97. The RP also includes a new microfinance activity [later identified as the Rural Financial Markets Activity, 5190435], and possibly an activity to provide TA to the Superintendency of Banks for improving the regulatory environment for microfinance lending institutions.