The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation is continuing its investments in Moldova with a loan to the microfinance institution Microinvest. This loan, worth €2 million in local currency, is the first granted to this institution, which provides microcredit and business start-up support to small entrepreneurs in many regions of […]
By Eva Hoglund, Chief Financial Officer at EFL (Poland) Launched by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation and Crédit Agricole SA in 2018, Solidarity Bankers is a skills-based volunteer program open to all Crédit Agricole Group employees in support of microfinance institutions or impact businesses supported by the Foundation. Discover the op-ed […]
The Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation has published its Letter No. 36. This end of July marks the fifth month of the global health and economic crisis. All countries have been affected, but, like the impact of extreme weather events, the health crisis is profoundly unequal in that it affects more […]
By Éric Campos, CEO, Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation & Bagoré Bathily, CEO, Laiterie du Berger The global shock of 2020 demonstrates the absolute necessity of rethinking our economic system. The health and climate emergencies leave no choice. Without structural change, the risks of social, political, and environmental tensions will become greater every day. We […]
@Designed by pikisuperstar / Freepik ADA, Inpulse, and the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation have partnered to monitor and analyze the effects of the Covid-19 crisis on their partner microfinance institutions around the world. This monitoring is carried out periodically and will continue throughout 2020 to better understand […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has funded two new partners, including one in a new country. With these two new partners, the Foundation now supports 83 organizations in 40 countries. It has granted an initial loan of FCFA equivalent to €1.5 million to Cofina Mali, a subsidiary of […]
VisionFund Uganda has been working in Obongi District since May 2019 and has disbursed US$92,000 to 100 savings groups, representing 2,264 individuals. VisionFund began training savings groups in Yumbe District in late 2019 but has not yet funded any groups. Savings groups operate in both […]
The Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) is an alliance of social financiers, also known as priority impact agricultural lenders, targeting “middle sector” agricultural businesses in low- and middle-income countries, and focused on creating a thriving, sustainable, and transparent financial market to meet the financing needs […]
A €10 million loan has just been granted by the French Development Agency (AFD) Group, represented by its subsidiary Proparco, to the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation. This loan will enable the Foundation to expand its support for microfinance institutions, which provide assistance, primarily in Africa, to populations excluded from the traditional banking system. The […]
In the economic crisis linked to Covid-19, the occurrence of a liquidity and/or solvency crisis is proving to be one of the main risks facing microfinance institutions. To address this, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, the Microfinance African Institutions Network (MAIN), International Solidarity for Development and Investment (SIDI), and the […]
