The Weaker Section Development Society (WSDS) is one of seven microfinance institutions (MFIs) that Arc Finance currently assists under its USAID-funded Renewable Energy Microfinance and Microenterprise Program (REMMP). A small but fast-growing, community-based MFI, WSDS operates in the central and southern districts of India’s northeastern state of Manipur and has recently begun finance and disbursals of solar home system components to underserved communities.

In India, Arc is working with two quite different financing entities that are both helping MFIs scale their energy lending programs. One of them is Milaap, which provides Indian MFIs with debt finance under its [...]