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SPBD Fiji 2020 SPBD Fiji 2020

SPBD’s Impact

Disbursed 55,000

US$200M 85,000

in loans to deserving micro-entrepreneurs
women micro-entrepreneurs served Savings Accounts
(as of August 2021) since 2000

Serving 5 Countries
29,000 US$19.4M 1,500+

Village Groups
Outstanding
Active Loans Loan Portfolio 55,000
2020 Year End Members

income and spending, as well as saving money development organisations throughout the
and budgeting. South Pacific.

In addition to Financial Education, SPBD also From one office, on one island, in one country,
delivers business plan training and weekly SPBD now operates 16 offices on 31 islands in
Business Tips modules to members. The five countries. We will continue to expand within
Business Tips topics covered range from our existing markets as well as to new countries,
inventory management to customer service to bringing more access to finance to more
negotiating with suppliers. deserving micro-entrepreneurs. And we will
SPBD delivers its financial and non-financial grow and scale the network in a sustainable way,
products and services through weekly centre ensuring we remain permanent entities in each
meetings in rural villages across the South country so that we can support our members in
Pacific. Through our field staff, we engage with the long run.
each of our members once per week in their Key to SPBD’s success is growing our loan
village. Each of our field (loan) officers spends portfolio. The loan portfolio grew consistently
more than 600 hours in the field with our from US$4.1 million in 2011 to US$19.4 million
members annually. in 2020 – a 10-year Compounded Annual
Growth Rate (CAGR) of 17 percent. The loan
portfolio is our largest asset, and the results
Building the institution: The growth of the clearly show that SPBD is becoming a larger and
SPBD network more capable organisation.
SPBD’s vision is to create a network of financially Growing the loan portfolio while maintaining
self-sufficient and scalable micro-enterprise strong loan portfolio quality is also critical to

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