For fairer access to wealth creation, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation calls for a more responsible capitalism that supports a new “social contract” A pragmatic observation With experience as a pioneer investor in Social Business companies, and supported by a quantified assessment, the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation notes that […]
Since its creation in 2008, the Foundation has committed nearly €200 million in funding. It works with 70 microfinance institutions and social businesses in 28 countries. Women and rural populations represent 76% and 81% of the more than 3 million clients of the institutions that […]
The Foundation is strengthening its ties with its institutional partners through a new agreement signed in March 2017 between the Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation and the French Development Agency (AFD) for a period of 3 years. A program to strengthen microfinance institutions The "Take-off Facility for Agricultural Microfinance and […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation is providing $2 million in funding to the microfinance institution FINCA Jordan as part of a partnership with CoopMed. This operation is part of a long-term collaboration between the Foundation and FINCA International. FINCA Jordan: A Decade of Action Promoting Entrepreneurship Since 1985, […]
At the 14th UNIGLOBAL Annual Microcredit Forum in Munich on March 15-16, Jurgen Hammer, Director of Risk and Social Performance at the Gramen Crédit Agricole Foundation, participated in the panel discussion: "Microfinance and Impact Investment: Creating Value and Protecting the Client." The panel included representatives from Incofin, […]
Green microfinance is a term that arouses curiosity. What does it mean? Are we talking about responsibility, economy, or commitment? How can the convergence of the notions "green" and "inclusive" be viable? To address these issues, the Green Index was designed in 2016 as a tool to measure the […]
Our partner ADA is taking action with the “Digital Finance Initiative” (or DFI), which aims to facilitate and co-finance the implementation of digital solutions by microfinance institutions in 12 Sub-Saharan African countries. Covering a period of 5 years, from 2017 to 2021, this ambitious project will provide access to […]
By Juliette Charrier, Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation When you join a social impact foundation, you come with a lot of preconceived ideas and idealism. At least, that was my case. I was finally going to learn the recipe for impact, both qualitative and quantitative, to finally find models that make sense, are effective in fighting poverty, are financially efficient, and […]
By Amélie Riou and Alice Forgeois, Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation When we think of microfinance, we might think of small loans, for populations without access to credit, only in the most remote and abandoned areas, by small operators managing their clients' outstanding loans on paper or old computers, only for […]
The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted a two-year loan of €330,000 to the Chamroeun microfinance institution in Cambodia. The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation has granted a two-year loan of €330,000 to the Chamroeun microfinance institution in Cambodia, of which it is […]
