MICROFINANCE A TOOL FOR FACILITATING THE GROWTH OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN NIGERIA
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INTRODUCTION
Effectively functioning financial markets have fundamentals roles to play in fostering development. At the level of individual livelihoods, financial markets can perform very crucial functions. They can be a principle means for the poor to get financial assets; through facilitating saving, they can be of importance in reducing the vulnerability associated with uneven and unpredictable year to year changes in circumstances and they help convert illiquid assets into liquid ones in the event of emergencies without putting up viable programmes to encourage the SME's which are the engine of growth for all economies all over the world.
The latent capacity of the poor for entrepreneurship would be significantly enhanced through the provision of micro finance services to enable them engage in economic activities and be more self-reliant in turn improve their abilities to create wealth a few number of highly effective micro finance programs have demonstrated that low-income clients especially women can manage meager resources productively provided the interest rate is relatively low.
Over the past decade, a few pioneer micro finance institutions have demonstrated not only ability of the poor but also the potential for sustain ability of financial institution that serve the poor. Full financial sustainability is reached when administrative; loan loss, inflation and financial costs are covered entirely by revenues. Savings services are needed urgently by the large number of poor people around the world to protect their income and serve as an alternative to acquisition to debt, micro finance institutions are therefore increasingly under pressure to mobilize savings to assist the poor.
Savings deposit also offers micro finance institutions a valuable source of getting substantial local funds. Before the emergence of formal micro finance institutions, the informal associations that operate traditional micro finance in various forms are found in all the rural and urban, communities in Nigeria (Out, etc al, 2003). The practice of micro finance in Nigeria is dated back to several centuries ago. The traditional micro finance institutions, work together for the mutual benefits of their members; these groups provide access to credit for the rural and urban, low-income earners. They are mainly the informal self-help groups or rotating savings and credit association types. Other providers of micro finance services include model is built around group concept. The model works in a situation where groups whose commitment to savings and credit are weak and look up to donor-sponsored credit. Informal model include:
The Grameen Bank experience of Bangladesh founded by Mohammed Yunus started with the group concept-informal lending to the poor. The program has since been linked to formal micro credit model. The model had been quite successful as a bank for the poor and as a social movement based on principles of awareness and training, which has facilitated active participation of the poor.
As at 1999, the Grameen Bank had provided its services to about 1.5 million poor unified about 60,000 small village banks on the linkage process and about $480 million to its clients for small scale trade.
Non Governmental Organization tends to adopt the Grameen principles, and is usually gender specific and sectorally motivated. There are women groups, farmers union, trade union etc. In different parts of Nigeria, a revolving loan scheme is practiced where members make fixed contributions of money at regular intervals to assists In financing their small-scale businesses. At each interval, one member collects the entire contributions of money from all. Among, the Yorubas it is called "Esusu", Hausas call it "Adashi" while Igbos call it "Itutu", could also server as a savings mechanism to the members.
The demand for micro finance services is high and increasing in Nigeria. He continuous lay-off of labour from both the public and private sectors since the introduction of structural adjustment programme in 1986 and the growing number of graduates from schools is pushing a large proportion of the population in to informal sector activities.
Many micro enterprises are, therefore, springing up but without bank financial support. Also, the domestic market is large, with over 1450 million people in need various goods and services. including financial services. The growth in micro finance activities reflects the expansion of informal sector activities and the exclusion of a large proportion of economically active population from the various financial services of the formal sector.
The micro finance seeks to make financial services available on a sustainable basis to the economically active poor, low-income earners and the micro, small and medium enterprises through privately owned banks (micro finance). This is to create a vibrant micro finance sub-sector that provides the necessary stimulus for national growth and economic development.
1.1 STATEMENT OF THE RESEARCH PROBLEM
There are Many research problems that are in line with the study of Micro Finance. This problems goes thus;
1) The problem of funding real sector activities needed to promote the micro finance institution since this provides the foundation for sustainable growth & development
2) The problem of identification and issuance of who is worthy of establishing a micro finance bank.
3) The problem of supervision on the operations of micro finance banks by the CBN
4) The problem of identifying the people who qualifies as a micro finance clients and benefits from micro finance bank
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