Request For Applications For New Potential Lim Partners

REQUEST FOR APPLICATIONS

For New Potential LIM Partners

VEGA Lebanon Investment in Microfinance (LIM) Program

Under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)Lebanon, the Volunteers for Economic Growth Alliance (VEGA) is providing sub-grants to Lebanese micro-finance institutions (MFI). The MFIs will in turn provide loans to qualified borrowers within the information and communications technology (ICT), tourism and agribusiness value chains in the rural and peri-urban areas ofLebanon. The VEGA Lebanon Investment in Microfinance (LIM) Program is now soliciting a Request for Applications (RFAs) from MFIs. Please see the full announcement and criteria posted online at www.iesc.org/rfa for information.

In preparation for work under the Lebanon Investment in Microfinance (LIM) Program, new applicants are requested to review and respond to the following list of items in regard to overall performance, loan activities and disbursements in 2011 and 2010, with information for each year submitted independently. Responses to questions must be received in a word document, with an attached excel file that summarizes the organizational data for the years 2011 and 2010.