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Kiva Fellow Tara

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Location:
Berkeley CA United States
Occupation:
Consultant
Member Since:
Mar 7, 2009
Bio:
Tara comes to Kiva from Global Business Network (GBN), a strategy consulting firm and futures think tank that specializes in scenario planning. She provided research, analysis, and design for GBN's consulting projects and workshops for private and public sector clients, including a recently completed report on the role of technology in international development. Prior to joining GBN, Tara held research positions at a nonprofit in Buenos Aires, and served as a liaison between farmers and community groups at the Fairtrade Foundation in London. She is interested in the intersections of law and economic development and looks forward to exploring these topics and embarking on new adventures as a Kiva Fellow.
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Tara's Kiva Fellowships

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Member of Kiva Fellows Class KF12

Fellow at Fundación ESPOIR

Ecuador

Jul 29, 2010 to Oct 22, 2010

Member of Kiva Fellows Class KF12

Fellow at Banco D-MIRO S.A.

Ecuador

Jul 29, 2010 to Oct 22, 2010

Member of Kiva Fellows Class KF13

Roaming Fellow
Nov 8, 2010 to Feb 4, 2011

Updates From The Field

A Kiva Fellow’s Photo Album: Six Months Along The Equator
Feb 22, 2011
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By Tara Capsuto, KF12 Ecuador / KF13 Kenya I recently concluded my Kiva Fellowship that has spanned 6.5 months, 5 of Kiva’s MFI field partners, 2 continents, countless long haul buses, and roughly 12,000 [...]
Giant bunny rabbits, small loans
Feb 1, 2011
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By Tara Capsuto, KF13, Kenya This blog really is about giant bunnies. It’s also about asset financing and how loan groups are working together, with the help of Juhudi Kilimo (o [...]
Mobile Payments: the Devil is in the Details
Jan 21, 2011
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By: Tara Capsuto, KF 13, Kenya Only 4 million Kenyans have bank accounts. Over 10 million people – approximately 40% of the adult population — in the country now use the M-PESA
Kiva Fellows: Kicking off 2011 Around the World
Jan 1, 2011
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By Kiva Fellows, Various corners of the globe Around the world, Kiva Fellows are celebrating the start of 2011 in all sorts of different ways. Here’s what some KF13-ers are doing to ring in the New Year. [...]
Voices from Nairobi: Justice for Kenya?
Dec 22, 2010
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By Tara Capsuto, KF 13, Kenya Kenyans breathed a collective sigh of relief on Dec 15 th when the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced the much anticipated list of Kenyan leaders suspected of organizing [...]
How Faulu Kenya learns from its clients and clients learn from each other
Dec 3, 2010
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By Tara Capsuto, KF13, Kenya Nestled in the hills of Kikuyu farmland, 500 of Faulu Kenya’s dairy farming, matatu driving, and kiosk-owning clients gathered for a half day of telling their microfinance [...]

Entrepreneurs Tara Has Visited

Update for Lilian
Feb 1, 2011
We caught up with Lilian in a busy marketplace called Kibati in the town of Matuu, and interviewed her through a staff member at KADET who speaks her mother tongue of Kikamba. She used half of her loan to stock [...]
Update for Margaret
Feb 1, 2011
Margaret used her loan to purchase 10 sacks of maize (10,000ksh), firewood (1,000Ksh), beans (8,000Ksh), and to plant kale (1,000Ksh). She said that for the time being she is paying off her loan with income from [...]
Update for Margaret Alila
Feb 1, 2011
Margaret used all of her 20,000Ksh loan to buy cereals, mostly maize but also some cassava and millet, which she bought wholesale and sells in the Onyinjo marketplace in Migori. Margaret grinds the maize to sell [...]
Update for Paul Kipkalum
Feb 1, 2011
We caught up with Paul while he was in Eldoret town, picking up a spare part to repair his tractor, and we traveled the 30 kilometers on dirt roads to his farm. He used the entirety of his loan, plus some of his [...]
Update for Emily
Feb 1, 2011
We visited Emily at her farm in Kapsabet, just a few kilometers from the center of the town. She used half of her loan to purchase a calf and the other half to purchase maize for resale. She was sad to report that [...]

Tara's Loans

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18 loans

  

Tara's Teams

Tara's Invites

2 accepted invitations

Portfolio Distribution

  • By Gender
  • By Country
  • By Sector
  • By Partner

Gender

Distribution By Gender
Gender %
Female83.33%
Male16.67%

Country

Distribution By Country
Country %
Ecuador33.33%
Kenya33.33%
Uganda5.56%
Ukraine5.56%
Senegal5.56%
Kyrgyzstan5.56%
Cambodia5.56%
Peru5.56%

Sector

Distribution By Sector
Sector %
Agriculture38.89%
Retail22.22%
Food22.22%
Services11.11%
Clothing5.56%

Partner

Distribution By Field Partner
Field Partner %
Fundación ESPOIR27.78%
Kenya Agency For Development Of Enterprise And Technology (KADET), A Partner Of World Vision…16.67%
Juhudi Kilimo (JK)11.11%
MCC Mol Bulak Finance LLC5.56%
One Acre Fund5.56%
Pearl Microfinance Limited5.56%
KREDIT Ltd.5.56%
CAURIE Microfinance, A Partner Of Catholic Relief Services5.56%
HOPE Ukraine, A Partner Of HOPE International5.56%
Banco D-MIRO S.A.5.56%
Edpyme Alternativa5.56%