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Burkina Atelier 'IMF en mileu rural'
Mise à Jour 2009
Annual Update 2009
New book on Value Chain Finance
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Burkina Atelier 'IMF en mileu rural'
31 May 2010
Le 12 mars 2010 un atelier sur la portée des IMF en milieu rural a été organisé à Burkina Faso, Ouagadougou par Terrafina Microfinance en partenariat avec l'UTE, la DMF et l'APIM. ...
Mise à Jour 2009
18 May 2010
Curieux au sujet des déboursements annuels, l'affectation des subventions, des défis et des points culminants pour Terrafina Microfinance en 2009 ? Notre Mise à Jour Annuelle 2009 vous amènera à jour au sujet des dernières figures. Also available in English.
Annual Update 2009
18 May 2010
Curious about the disbursements, grants allocations, challenges and highlights for Terrafina Microfinance in 2009? Our Annual Update 2009 will bring you up to date about the latest figures. Aussie disponible en français.
New book on Value Chain Finance
10 May 2010
On Thursday 22 April, the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) in Amsterdam presented a new book on Value Chain Finance , 'Value chain finance: Beyond microfinance for rural entrepreneurs'' and hosted 3 'break out sessions' on the role of local banks in Value Chain Finance. Terrafina Microfinance expert Mariel Mensink chaired one of those sessions. The aim of the event was to bring together different areas of expertise to discuss innovative ways of delivering financial services to rural producers and agribusinesses, and the challenges that are involved. ...
Princess Máxima visits Rwanda project
13 April 2010
Early April HRH Princess Máxima of The Netherlands was in Rwanda for a short working visit in her capacity as UN Secretary General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development. She had discussions with some MicroFinance Institutions, and with the microfinance network AMIR, on Client Protection issues and access to agricultural credit. During her two-days' stay she also visited the savings and credit cooperative ITI in the Northern tea region. ITI is partner of Terrafina Microfinance and technically supported by our local technical advisor Frank Bakx. ...
Joint planning West Africa programme
12 April 2010
Coordinator Cor Wattel and senior staff Nadia Ouriemchi and Bart de Bruyne spent two full days in Mali on planning with Oikocredit and ICCO for the West Africa programme for 2011-2015. ‘' I just came back from a short but very satisfactory mission to Mali, jointly with Nadia and Bart. We reached good conclusions and the meeting reinforced the spirit of joint action and synergies with Oikocredit and now also with ICCO's regional office (established in 2008)." (Cor Wattel) ...
Planification conjointe Afrique de l'Ouest
12 April 2010
Le Coordinateur du programme, Cor Wattel et les cadres Nadia Ouriemchi et Bart de Bruyne ont passés deux jours au Mali avec Oikocredit et ICCO dans le cadre de la planification du programme Afrique de l'Ouest pour 2011-2015 ." ...
Micro View flight for Ethiopian MFIs
11 April 2010
Micro View is a spectalulair flight of 20.000 kilometers in two 'microlights', small airplanes with open cockpits. With their flight Thom de Wit and Merle Pijlman want to draw Dutch attention to microcredit as a tool to help develop local economies and for poverty reduction. Another objective is to raise funds for a.o. Terrafina Microfinance's partners Busaa Gonofaa and Harbu in Ethiopia. ...
Expo at Africa Day 24 April
06 April 2010
At the Afica Day on April 24 in The Hague, Terrafina Microfinance founder ICCO will be present with a stand and two workshops in line with their campaigns on 'Woman stand stronger' and 'Fair Climate'. During this day Terrafina Microfinance will present its work with the photo exposition "Microfinance entrepreneurs in Africa". Commissioned by Terrafina, photographer Raymond Rutting portrayed microfinance entrepreneurs in Senegal and Ethiopia. This resulted in a beautifull coverage of which 10 photos will be shown with each its own story to tell.
L'initiative PUCA pour le PPI
01 March 2010
L'initiative PUCA visant à promouvoir l'outil de mesure de la pauvreté PPI a été annoncée par une coupure de presse le 18 Fevrier 2010 par la Fondation Grameen. PUCA (Coalition des Utilisateurs du PPI TM en Afrique) est une approche multipartite pour la mise en œuvre du PPI, qui regroupe les organisations de soutien aux Institutions de Microfinance (IMF) tels que Terrafina, PlanetFinance, Oikocredit, CRS, et Grameen Foundation en collaboration avec les Associations Professionnelles au Mali et au Senegal.
PUCA initiative for PPI
18 February 2010
The PUCA initiative to promote the Poverty Assessment tool PPI, was announced in a press release by Grameen Foundation on 18 February 2010. PUCA (PPI Users Collaborative in Africa) consists of a joint approach of Terrafina Microfinance, Oikocredit, Catholic Relief Services, Planet Rating and Grameen Foundation together with the national microfinance networks in Mali and Senegal to implement the PPI. ...
Co-financing opportunities Rabobank Foundation
16 February 2010
Rabobank Foundation sees opportunities for more co-financing in Ethiopia In February Rabobank Foundation's Albert Boogaard and program officer Mariel Mensink visited Terrafina Microfinance projects together. Rabobank Foundation was an enthusiastic participant researching the possibilities for co-financing rural saccos and coffee cooperatives. ...
Rwanda: Système de marquage crédit
08 February 2010
Rwanda: Système de marquage crédit Dans l'année 2009, avec l'arrivée de premier Conseiller Technique de Terrafina Microfinance sur le terrain, Terrafina a introduit un système de marquage de crédit dans trois coopératives d'épargne et de crédit. L'objectif est de systématiser l'analyse des demandes de crédits, tant productifs que de consommation, et rendre la prise de décision plus objective.
Burundi: études pour épargne et marketing
08 February 2010
Burundi: études pour épargne et marketing...
Congo: renforcer coopération stratégique
08 February 2010
Congo: renforcer coopération stratégique Les provinces de Nord en Sud Kivu du Congo RDC resteront dans une situation de manque de sécurité et carences de respect de la législation et règlementation. La soutenance des IMF est menacée par les échecs de quelques opérateurs faussés et corrompus.
Financial projections tool MicroVision
11 January 2010
How to make financial projections? In November 2009, Terrafina Microfinance organised a workshop about financial projections. Nine MFIs and nine consultants - all from Senegal and Burkina Faso - were trained in using MicroVision, a new tool for making projections. The participants considered both the MicroVision tool and the workshop as a great success. ...
Ethiopia Photo impression
07 December 2009
Marie-Catrien Goddijn took top photograper Raymond Rutting to Ethiopia to portray microfinance clients. Have a look here! On the road we also encountered severe drought problems caused by climate change.
Introducing MFI Factsheet
09 November 2009
The BRS / MFI Factsheet will be introduced to partner MFIs in West Africa and the Horn as a performance monitoring and management tool. The Great Lakes region will follow gradually. Contact Nadia Ouriemchi.
Ethiopia: SPM
06 November 2009
Next to Buusa Gonofaa and Wasasa, a third MFI called Methemamen is now participating in the SPM programme supported by Terrafina. All MFIs have used the QAT analysis developed by MFC (link) to asses possible interventions in the field of social performance monitoring. Two more MFIs will follow. Contact Mariel Mensink.
Rwanda: Warehouse Receipt Financing
05 November 2009
CAF Isonga developed the Warehouse Receipt Financing product with a loan from Rabobank Foundation. Talks about extension of funding are ongoing with Banque Populair. IFDC is actively promoting the product to other MFIs in the region. The unions will receive systematic training and follow up for a period of 3 years, and will be provided with some capital (grants and loans) to improve operations and apply lessons learned. Contact Frank Bakx at the Terrafina fieldpost in Kigali.
Ethiopia: local bank guarantees
04 November 2009
Successfully following the first steps taken in 2008, Terrafina pioneered in linkages between MFIs Wasasa, Busaa Gonofaa and SFPI and local banks to facilitate a commercial loan of local banks for the MFIs with the current guarantees of 600.000 EUR. Ca 25.000 additional clients will be serviced. The guarantees are now totalling four and have been provided in collaboration with BRS (Belgium) Ada (Luxembourg) and Cordaid. Contact Mariel Mensink.
West Africa cooperation
03 November 2009
A joined visit by Rabobank Foundation, Oikocredit and Terrafina to West Africa resulted in strengthening the basis for a shared loans programme for coops and CVCAS by Oikocredit and Rabobank. Contact Nadia Ouriemchi.
Update 2008 English/French
02 November 2009
An annual program Update 2008 can be downloaded in English and French. ...
Burundi: Group Lending
30 October 2009
In close collaboration with the national MFI network of Burundi, RIM a 2 year training program about Group Lending Methodologies started mid September. Prior to trainings for MFI personnel an extensive inventory was held of the present situation in group lending within MFIs, their needs, wishes and possibilities. The Dutch Embassy considers participation through the FORCE II program. Contact Ellie Bosch.
AMIR visits Rabobank NL
30 October 2009
With reference to the planned extension of the network of SACCOs in Rwanda, a delegation of AMIR has visited Rabobank Foundation to gain information on the developments of the network of the local Rabobanks. Contact Frank Bakx.
Rwanda: Cooperative Strengthening project
30 October 2009
Three unions, of 35 loan- and credit coops, and three autonomous coops are participating in a Cooperative Strengthening project. A first step was the design of a simplified chart of accounts for the rural coops and the introduction of a standardised book keeping system with 27 forms. Also a national project co-ordinator has been hired (on contract of AMIR) for a period of 28 months. Contact Frank Bakx at the Terrafina fieldpost in Kigali.
Financial services for farmers
30 October 2009
In April Terrafina Microfinance was partner in a dialogue with the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Department of Economic Development on the interface of microfinance and rural development. The meeting is part of the discussions around the joint policy paper on "Agriculture, rural entrepreneurship and food security", launched in 2008 by the Dutch Ministers of Agriculture and Development Coop., and linked to track 2 proposed in the paper ("Enabling environment, public services and institutions").
