Eleven bank executives from MABS participating bank Rural Bank of San Antonio (RBSA) in Lipa, Batangas, underwent the Program’s new approach to Micro Agri-loan Product (MAP) training in December 2-4, 2008. The method brings the MABS Approach to Agricultural Microfinance to multi-branch rural banks interested in offering MAP. The in-house training included classroom discussions, fieldwork, and discussion-workshop sessions on loan management, loan monitoring, product design, microfinance issues and best practices, and action planning for the actual MAP implementation.

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