ET-368 is engaged in blacksmith work. When I visited him many times, I found the stock was almost low, very few raw materials for production and his employees were sitting off-job most of the time at usual working hours. When … Continued
History of respondent: ETH 616 By the time we met this respondent at his work place, only the respondent is available but not any employee as well as none of the machine are working because of order unavailability for this … Continued
NG724 This metal work firm started operation in 2019. Inability of of the firm owner to secure government job prompted him to venture into the business as means of survival. He has some apprentices who pay to learn the work … Continued
Three innovative projects are about to start. This newsletter only presents to you one of them, the other two will be disclosed in the next newsletter. Measuring whether the process of financial diaries has an impact on micro-entrepreneurs: The … Continued
The Corner Shop project records how small retail businesses are doing across the Covid-19 crisis. L-IFT collaborates with MSC in this project, where MSC funds India and Indonesia fieldwork, while L-IFT funds Bangladesh, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Nigeria. MSC … Continued
Marcienne Umubyeyi, our long-term L-IFT team member has just completed the field-work with a large team in the eastern part of Congo, on behalf of Cordaid. The three-month diaries study tracked almost 400 respondents from greater Goma and greater Bukavu. … Continued
The past summer months (of 2021) in Addis Ababa were uncharacteristically cold and even wetter than usual. These extreme weather conditions directly or indirectly affected the Small Firm Diaries respondents’ business activities. Those who need sunshine in their production process, … Continued
As L-IFT, we have decided to focus more on communicating our findings and experiences through LinkedIn and Twitter. Although we will not delete our Facebook page, it will just be used to refer people to other channels. We hereby warmly … Continued
The Small Firm Diaries (SFD) project, led by Financial Access Initiative of New York University, is fully underway with L-IFT and MFO supporting methodology development, implementing the field operations, and taking care of the data process. The project is currently … Continued
There have been some significant developments for our FINBIT. FINBIT has been perfected further, with some great new features and further trialling and testing to meet many clients’ needs. The app is now widely used, across three continents, in five … Continued