The African Facility is a technical assistance program established in 2013 by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), to support rural microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. RENACA is a Tier 2 microfinance institution created in 2005. Located in Benin, its […]
Phare Performing Social Enterprise (PPSE) is a social enterprise created in 2012 at the initiative of Phare Ponleu Selpak (“The Light of the Arts”), a Cambodian NGO that has been working for over 20 years to provide access to quality education and artistic training for children in extreme poverty. Today, the NGO educates over 1,000 […]
The 5th edition of the African Microfinance Week (AMW), dedicated to the development of financial inclusion in Africa, will take place from October 18 to 22, 2021 in Kigali, Rwanda, on the theme of resilience. Organized by ADA Microfinance (Appui au Développement Autonome) in Luxembourg, the main objective of the 2021 AMW is to […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation is proud to be a signatory of the Cerise + SPTF Client Protection Pathway. This path guides financial service providers in implementing client protection standards, which are essential consumer protection practices, in terms of design and delivery […]
The African Facility is a mechanism established in 2013 by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), to support rural microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. This mechanism, which ends at the end of 2021, will have enabled 326 technical assistance missions to be carried out with 26 microfinance institutions for a […]
Solidarity Bankers is a skills volunteer program launched by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation and Crédit Agricole SA in 2018 with a dual objective: on the one hand, to support microfinance institutions and impact businesses financed by the Foundation with technical assistance, and on the other hand, to promote the skills of the employees of the […]
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, supporting microfinance institutions and impactful businesses supported by the Foundation. Discover the opinion piece by Jean Baptiste Bounes, Solidarity Banker at SODICA, […]
The African Facility is a program established in 2013 by the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, in partnership with the French Development Agency (AFD), to support rural microfinance institutions in sub-Saharan Africa. A look back at this program through the testimony of Eléonore Marie Céline Compaore-Gyebre, Manager of GRAINE SARL. Created in 2006, the institution […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation is a partner of the first edition of the Impact Finance Barometer launched at the Zero Exclusion, Zero Carbon, Zero Poverty Global Forum on September 2, 2021. This publication, coordinated by Convergences, is the result of a collective effort bringing together impact finance experts, analysts, […]
Since 2019, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) have been joining forces to support refugee populations in Uganda. The Foundation was selected by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) […]
