Published date: October 08, 2019
P.E.B.Co-BETHESDA
P.E.B.Co-BETHESDA, the Association for the Promotion of Community-Based Credit Savings (CBE-BETHESDA), is a Decentralized Financial System created in 1996 and registered as a Microfinance association. Before assuming its Associative form, it was initially a project of the Department Community and Environmental Sanitation (DCAM) of the NGO BETHESDA. It became a full-fledged department in 2004. Their social mission is to “Improve the living conditions of the poor by offering good quality financial and non-financial services”.
Published date: October 08, 2019
P.E.B.Co-BETHESDA
The Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Santa Anita Ltda (COAC Santa Anita), an entity that emerged in 2001 with the objective of supporting the development of the indigenous farming sectors of northern Ecuador. Their social mission is “We are a Popular and Solidarity Savings and Credit Cooperative that offers quality financial products and services, aimed at the rural area of the Sierra Norte region of the Country, promoting economic growth, social development and financial inclusion of our members, customers and the community”.
Location: Ecuador
Published date: July 23, 2019
Thrive Micro-Finance (Private) Ltd
Thrive Microfinance (Private) Ltd (THRIVE) is a microfinance service provider based in Harare, Zimbabwe. Their social mission is “to provide training and credit to women excluded from the mainstream financial sector in a manner that is both socially responsible and financially sustainable”. Location: Zimbabwe
Published date: May 03, 2019
COAC Santa Anita Ltda.
The Cooperativa de Ahorro y Crédito Santa Anita Ltda (COAC Santa Anita), an entity that emerged in 2001 with the objective of supporting the development of the indigenous farming sectors of northern Ecuador. Their social mission is “We are a Popular and Solidarity Savings and Credit Cooperative that offers quality financial products and services, aimed at the rural area of the Sierra Norte region of the Country, promoting economic growth, social development and financial inclusion of our members, customers and the community”.
Location: Ecuador
Published date: April 07, 2019
Sathapana Ltd.
Sathapana Limited (SATHAPANA) is a deposit-taking microfinance institution (DMFI) based in Yangon, Myanmar. Its social mission is “To empower entrepreneurs and to generate employments in order to upgrade their living standard through access to financial services in a sustainable manner”. The name, Sathapana, means “to build or to construct” in the Cambodian language.
Location: Myanmar
Published date: January 28, 2019
Borvor Finance PLC
Borvor Finance PLC (formerly know as Cambodian Community Saving Federation or CCSF) is a rural credit operator based in Cambodia. Its mission is to provide affordable financial services to low-income families, especially women, responsive to their needs to improve their living standard.
Location: Cambodia
Published date: November 23, 2017
Thrive Micro-Finance (Private) Ltd
Thrive Microfinance is a microfinance institution in Zimbabwe providing productive business loans to low-income women, utilizing a group lending methodology. Its mission is to provide training and credit to women excluded from the mainstream financial sector in a manner that is both socially responsible and financially sustainable.
Thrive’s ambition is to exert a positive influence on other MFIs operating in Zimbabwe and become the country’s leading developmental microfinance provider.
Location: Zimbabwe
Published date: October 12, 2017
Cambodian Community Savings Federation (CCSF)
Cambodian Credit Savings Federation (CCSF) was the first pioneer of the credit union model in Cambodia. CCSF began as the Small Economic Activity Development project with CARE Cambodia, funded by AusAID through CARE Australia in 1998. Its original mission was to promote savings and thrift habits based on the nine operating principles of credit unions. Originally established to empower low-income families in Cambodia by building a network of Community Based Microfinance Organisations (CBMIFOs). It worked in partnership with 25 CBMIFOs to support more than 50,000 members and their families across Battambang and Banteay Meanchey provinces. It is currently undergoing a restructuring, having absorbed most of its CBMIFO partners and turning itself into a single level MFI providing financial services directly to its low-income members.
Location: Cambodia
Published date: May 09, 2017
Enterprise Support & Community Development Trust (ENCOT)
ENCOT is an indigenous rural community development micro-credit and rural-enterprise development NGO founded in 2006 by a group of indigenous community development practitioners in Masindi (Uganda). The Organization was developed as a response to the challenges of poverty and suffering faced by the rural communities in Masindi, most especially the farmers.
Location: Uganda
Published date: May 08, 2017
SIA N’SON Microfinance
SIA N’SON Microfinance was created in 2005 and received the unique accreditation to practice Microfinance in Benin in 2012. Indeed, its creation follows the split of the NGO SIA N’SON (which existed since 1995) in two distinct entities: SIA N’SON Microfinance and SIA N’SON Community Development.
Location: Benin
Published date: May 07, 2017
Mutuelle d’Épargne et de Crédit (MEC) « le Sine »
Created in July 2000 by 199 members from the women’s groupings of the department of Fatick, MEC “Le Sine” first operated as a savings and credit group, before operating as an MFI since 2005. Its objective is to offer financial and non-financial products and services to Fatick, in particular women and young people.
Location: Senegal
Published date: May 06, 2017
Juhudi Kilimo
Juhudi is a private company that was established to provide microfinance services and asset-backed financing to smallholder farmers and enterprises in rural Kenya. It was a subsidiary of K-Rep Group, a diversified group of companies that have provided banking and other financial services, consulting and technical services, and research and product development in the Kenyan microfinance sector since 1984. In 2009 Juhudi took over the asset-financing portfolio of K-Rep Development Agency, a K-Rep Group-sponsored non-governmental organization (NGO), to support the growth of the portfolio on an independent basis.
Location: Kenya
Published date: May 05, 2017
Caisse Baitoul Maal (CBM)
Under the impulse of a group of Muslim intellectuals, the Caisse Baitoul Maal (which means “common fund”) was born in 1997 and began operations in the same year. Two years later, it was approved under to operate as an MFI. Its objective is to make available to the Burkinabe population financial and non-financial products.
Location: Burkina Faso
Published date: May 03, 2017
COMUBA
COMUBA (La Coopérative des Membres Unis Bethel Actions ) was established in 2004 and began its formal operations as an MFI in 2008. The founding members considered it necessary to direct the initiative towards microfinance in favor of women’s groups. With Headquarters in Cotonou, it operates mainly in the central and southern areas of Benin.
Location: Benin
Published date: May 03, 2017
CAURIE-MF
CAURIE-MF has been operating as an MFI since 2009. The institution operates mainly through the Village Banks, supporting women’s participation in the development of their activities.
Location: Senegal
Published date: May 01, 2017
P.E.B.Co-BETHESDA
The Association for the Promotion of Community-Based Credit Savings (CBE-BETHESDA) is a Decentralized Financial System created in 1996 and registered as a Microfinance association. Before assuming its Associative form, it was initially a project of the Department Community and Environmental Sanitation (DCAM) of the NGO BETHESDA. It became a full-fledged department in 2004.
Location: Benin
Published date: April 28, 2017
ALIDé
The Association for the Struggle for the Promotion of Development Initiatives (ALIDé) is a Decentralized Financial System (SFD) created in 2006 in Benin. It has been operating as a microfinance institution since 2012. The association offers savings products and various funds to individual micro-entrepreneurs and groups of customers through a network of 11 agencies. It has its headquarters in Cotonou.
Location: Benin
Published date: April 25, 2017
URC-Nazinon
The Regional Union of Cooperative Savings and Credit Nazinon (URC-Nazinon) was established in 1984. In 1997, the URC-Nazinon became an independent mutual entity and in 2004 was officially restructured to expand its activities outside the Zoundwego province (chief city of the South Central Region) and surrounding areas.
Location: Burkina Faso
