{"id":1416,"date":"2014-10-28T16:26:27","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T12:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2014-10-30T13:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T09:48:52","slug":"asian-credit-fund-participated-in-microfinance-conference-of-azerbaijan-microfinance-association-innovative-practices-to-reach-financial-inclusion-learning-from-peers-experiences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/1416","title":{"rendered":"Asian Credit Fund participated in Microfinance Conference of Azerbaijan Microfinance Association  \u201cInnovative practices to reach financial inclusion: Learning from peers\u2019 experiences\u201d to share the company practical  experience in energy efficiency lending."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Baku, October 9-10, 2014. Asian Credit Fund (ACF) participated in Microfinance Conference of Azerbaijan Microfinance Association named\u00a0\u201cInnovative practices to reach financial inclusion: Learning from peers\u2019 experiences\u201d to share the company practical experience in energy efficiency lending.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Usenov, the Business Development<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-1417\" src=\"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1902771_791419844254617_7251123739487866696_n1.jpg\" alt=\"1902771_791419844254617_7251123739487866696_n\" width=\"488\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1902771_791419844254617_7251123739487866696_n1.jpg 720w, https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1902771_791419844254617_7251123739487866696_n1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 488px) 100vw, 488px\" \/> Director of ACF presented the two-year company results in lending for energy efficiency for rural houses in Kazakhstan.\u00a0 Mr. Usenov noted that while during the last three years Kazakhstan had been promoting energy efficiency agenda country wide, the most of government attention was directed to the issues of big plants and residential multi-store buildings in urban areas.\u00a0 ACF picked up on the gap to provide rural houses with an opportunity to increase their energy efficiency by getting funding from ACF\u2019s\u00a0 special lending program, supported by USAID and Habitat International.\u00a0 $840,000 in loan disbursement made by ACF resulted in improving living conditions of 299 rural households.\u00a0 58% of loan proceeds were used for insulation and 42% for improving the heating system.\u00a0 Program implementation resulted in saving 269 tons of coal which in turn resulted in 471 tons less of carbon emission.\u00a0 To prove results ACF used clients\u2019 survey and carbon dioxide emission equation according to the direction of the International Panel on Climate Change UN. Currently ACF is considering what can be done next for brining the energy efficiency lending to the new stage of business development.\u00a0 The goal is performed by testing ideas from ACF employees &#8211; fellows of USAID Community Links Program who had been recently visiting Baltimore city, State of \u00a0Maryland to learn from USA experience in the energy efficiency field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Baku, October 9-10, 2014. Asian Credit Fund (ACF) participated in Microfinance Conference of Azerbaijan Microfinance Association named\u00a0\u201cInnovative practices to reach financial inclusion: Learning from peers\u2019 experiences\u201d to share the company practical experience in energy efficiency lending. Mr. Usenov, the Business Development Director of ACF presented the two-year company results in lending for energy efficiency for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acf-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancreditfund.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}