Determinants of Micro Finance Sustainability and Outreach: a Case Study in Jimma Town

Abstract

The central theme of this study is to analyze the micro finance institutions activities and their sustainability and outreach in the case of Jimma town and addressing the issues to the policy makers, through the analysis of necessary data collected from both sides of micro finance organizers and users. As the case is in our country, crafting poor friendly micro financing services is key in allevtating poverty and its debtlitattng effects. The relevant data is gathered using observations, structured and unstructured interview, interview questionnaires and document analysis of jimma town micro financing institutions. The collected data was analyzed using descriptive analysis technique and the MFLs activities sustainability and outreach, is evaluated.The out come obtained showed that is not to say good .