{"id":17606,"date":"2022-06-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T08:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/?p=17606"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:34:16","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T10:34:16","slug":"sfa-une-banquiere-solidaire-au-senegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/en\/sfa-une-banquiere-solidaire-au-senegal\/","title":{"rendered":"SFA: a Solidarity Banker in Senegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18414 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Article-actu-SFA-mai-2022.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"850\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Article-actu-SFA-mai-2022.jpg 850w, https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Article-actu-SFA-mai-2022-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Article-actu-SFA-mai-2022-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Article-actu-SFA-mai-2022-189x100.jpg 189w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese Food Chain Association (SFA) is a social enterprise that promotes the production of quality rice by smallholder farmers in the Senegal River Valley through a long-term partnership. SFA provides them with access to financing and technical support, then processes the paddy into white rice and sells it on the Senegalese market.<\/p>\n<h4>THE ORGANIZATION AND THE FOUNDATION<\/h4>\n<p>Since 2013, the Grameen Cr\u00e9dit Agricole Foundation has been a shareholder in S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise des Fili\u00e8res Alimentaires. The SFA benefited from the Solidarity Bankers program: a high-level expert, Head of the Group Purchasing Information System Project Management division at Cr\u00e9dit Agricole SA, spent two weeks in the field to support the SFA in optimizing its information system.<\/p>\n<h4>THE CONTEXT OF THE MISSION<\/h4>\n<p>In an effort to expand its business, SFA sought outside expertise and support from an information systems expert to develop a technology application for local teams to better manage and optimize their operations and producer monitoring. Our Cr\u00e9dit Agricole expert visited SFA factories in Saint Louis and Dakar and conducted an assessment of the information system through interviews with various SFA stakeholders. She also worked with them on digitizing the rice collection chain to optimize productivity and yields.<\/p>\n<h4>THE RESULTS<\/h4>\n<p>By visiting the field, she was able to understand the different stages of rice collection and processing and offer her recommendations. Thanks to the implementation of the management information system under development and a weighing application integrated into the Sage software, the Solidarity Banker has enabled SFA to improve its industrial activity, production conditions, and technical and financial monitoring of producers. Since improving its production system, SFA&#039;s ambition is to double its volume of activity by 2022, while supporting the local rice sector in Senegal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>This article was published in &quot;Our technical assistance system&quot;, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/en\/notre-dispositif-assistance-technique\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accessible here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bMaEonnOqFU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Discover the mission in video here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise des Fili\u00e8res Alimentaires (SFA) est une entreprise sociale qui encourage la production de riz de qualit\u00e9 par les petits exploitants de la Vall\u00e9e du fleuve S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, dans le cadre d\u2019un partenariat de longue dur\u00e9e. La SFA leur donne acc\u00e8s \u00e0 des financements et \u00e0 un appui technique, puis transforme le paddy en riz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"pays-actualite":[],"types-publications-media":[],"class_list":["post-17606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-actualite"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SFA : une Banqui\u00e8re Solidaire au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal - Fondation Grameen Cr\u00e9dit-Agricole<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gca-foundation.org\/en\/sfa-une-banquiere-solidaire-au-senegal\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SFA : une Banqui\u00e8re Solidaire au S\u00e9n\u00e9gal - Fondation Grameen Cr\u00e9dit-Agricole\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"La S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise des Fili\u00e8res Alimentaires (SFA) est une entreprise sociale qui encourage la production de riz de qualit\u00e9 par les petits exploitants de la Vall\u00e9e du fleuve S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, dans le cadre d\u2019un partenariat de longue dur\u00e9e. 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