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Meet the new MFC Member – Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation

We’re delighted to welcome Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation as a new member of the Microfinance Centre. The Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation’s mission is to contribute to the fight against poverty and inequalities by promoting financial inclusion and social impact entrepreneurship. Investor, funder, technical assistance coordinator and fund advisor, the Foundation finances

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Meet the new MFC Member – The Microfinance Association

We’re delighted to welcome The Microfinance Association as a new member of the Microfinance Centre. The Microfinance Association is a non-profit professional membership organisation registered in the United Kingdom. It is a global body of microfinance practitioners that provides training and consulting services to clients. We look forward to start working together!

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Meet the new MFC Member – ARD CREDIT

We’re delighted to welcome Ard Credit as a new member of the Microfinance Centre. Ard Credit is a publicly listed non-bank finance company that provides access to inclusive financial services to Mongolians by leveraging the potential of innovative technologies. The numbers speak for themselves. As for today Ard Credit has 923,500

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Meet the new MFC Member – AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants

Microfinance Centre is delighted to announce that the AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants GmbH has joined the membership! AFC Agriculture and Finance Consultants is a Germany based consulting company that offers high-quality advisory services, focusing on agricultural and financial sector development. We look forward to starting working together. Learn more about

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Microfinance Centre is hiring for the position of Events Manager

We are looking for a well-organized and enthusiastic candidate, willing to contribute to the fair economic system, especially for underprivileged: self-employed, family business owners including those led by migrants and refugees. We seek a team member willing to engage his/her skills, experience and energy to oversee the organization of key

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Transform Together Fund

Social innovations for fair green and digital transition. Project description It is observed that key target groups of social economy are left behind green and digital transition in Europe. It is particularly true for the most vulnerable : microentrepreneurs, low-income people, migrants, women. They lack knowledge and skills to introduce

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Meet the new MFC Member – AFIN

We are proud and happy to announce that MFC is growing! Let’s introduce and welcome our new Member – AFIN! AFIN – ALTERNATIVE FINANCING IFN SA is the first non-bank financial institution in Romania, exclusively dedicated to the field of social economy, and, at the same time, the first Romanian

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The Way to Business. Програма для українських жінок в Польщі

Ідея програми полягає в тому, щоб дати можливість українським жінкам здобути фінансову незалежність і побудувати власний шлях до успіху через підприємництво, тим самим збільшуючи їхні економічні та соціальні можливості, а також добробут.

Проект реалізує MFC (соціальна фінансова мережа, яка сприяє інклюзивності, рівності та відповідальному наданню послуг. МФЦ об’єднує понад 100 організацій у 36 країнах Європи та Центральної Азії) за підтримки JPMorgan Chase & Co (провідна фінансова компанія, що базується у Сполучених Штатах Америки (США) та здійснює свою діяльність по всьому світу)

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Meet the new MFC Member – AccessBank

We are proud and happy to announce that AccessBank has become a Member of MFC! Established in 2002, AccessBank Azerbaijan is a leading financial institution in microfinancing in the market. It is wholly owned by international financial institutions and funds, with Asian Development Bank (ADB), International Finance Corporation (IFC), and

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Technical Needs Assessment Among Entrepreneurial Households and Micro-/Smallholder Farmers in the Agricultural Production and Processing Sector in Armenia

The German Sparkassenstiftung (German Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, DSIK) was commissioned by the German Government to implement a regional program in the South Caucasus and Ukraine on promoting rural entrepreneurship and rural finance for sustainable micro and small enterprise development. The nationwide technical needs assessment was conducted in

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Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Systems: A Microfinance Perspective

This Working Paper is the first paper resulting from a research project on “Strengthening Financial Inclusion through Digitalization: (SFIDE). The project aims to investigate the potential of technological and financial innovation to increase the efficiency of the inclusive finance sector, through the identification and promotion of best practices. The paper

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BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND FINANCIAL HEALTH

A publication of the ‘From Research to Practice and Back Again’ Action Group (AG)  focuses on understanding the relationship between financial education (FE) and financial health (FH), a still under-researched topic which is gaining traction among practitioners and researchers having been identified as one of the top research needs in

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Changes in the MFC Council

During the Membership Meeting at the 25 th MFC Annual Conference: Thriving Together. Silver Jubilee MFC Council went through important changes! After a year of great service as Council Chair, Brunilda Isaj left and Archil Bakuradze was appointed in Brunilda’s place. We take this opportunity to thank Brunilda for her

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