Ratings

Our Social Performance Ratings System (SPRS) is designed to analyze how effective an organization is at translating its mission into practice. It encompasses the organization's objectives, systems, services, human resources, performance indicators and results.

The results of this analysis and evaluation is expressed through an output called a Social Performance & Impact Rating (SPIR). This rating is also meant to give the organisation in question a value-added tool for identifying and assessing the specific areas in its social performance that need improving, and where it is achieving or surpassing its social objectives.

It is also used by investors to understand the policies and practices of financial institutions that promote social values.

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]
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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