Social venture move - microcredit - case study

• Author(s): Santos, Maria Araújo Pereira dos
• Date: 2012
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/17345
• Origin: Repositório Institucional da UNL
• Subject(s): Domínio/Área Científica::Ciências Sociais
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: English
• Advisor(s): Guedes, José Correia; Batista, Rita
• Contributor(s): RUN

Description

This study has the purpose of presenting the path of a social microcredit start-up in Mozambique. Its members had just gotten out of college and decided to put in practice what they had learnt. Even though the whole foundation of the project was developed in Mozambique, the team has extended its experience to other countries: São Tomé and Timor. However, the focus of this study will be solely in the Ilha de Mozambique’s project and the difficulties that it is facing right now, in order to try to find answers that would allow the project entrepreneurs to overcome what is keeping them from having a more successful return rate. The main issue of the project and the worse and unexpected default rate is within the fishing sector. This is peculiar, since the mission is in an island where there are plenty of fish and shellfish. By addressing this problem, and presenting the whole structure of the venture, it is its goal to understand better ways to deal with the difficulties. Its format will be as a case study and it will present as well the macroeconomics of Mozambique to justify the choice of the place, align with the team itself, and why it is possible to have a successful project with as many contacts and sponsors as this one does.