Employment and Social Innovation (Jasmine)
See the latest microfinance advisory news from EaSI TA, including success stories about the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision, at https://goo.gl/2537bl. Other new briefing information has been released recently by the European Commission concerning the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision.
fi-compass organised a second EaSI TA thematic seminar in Romania in response to the needs expressed by both Romanian and other European microfinance institutions (MFIs) operating in rural areas. The event focused on innovation in product development and distribution channels, including digital methods for MFIs with clients in rural regions.
Our fi-compass EaSI TA advisory services organised three workshops in Portugal during the Ethical and Solidarity Finance Forum (FFES III). More than 160 people participated representing Portuguese stakeholders involved in ethical and solidarity financing. The three EaSI TA workshops focused on raising awareness about the ethical and solidarity financing environment as well as related financing gaps in Portugal.
EaSI Technical Assistance is a part of the first axis of the Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI) Programme which is an EU level financing instrument. Its third axis aims to increase the availability and accessibility of microfinance for vulnerable groups and micro enterprises, build up the institutional capacity of microcredit providers and increase access to finance for social enterprises.
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An EaSI TA seminar was organised in Romania for microfinance stakeholders in September 2007 by fi-compass. The event was an initiative following up on an EaSI TA Survey conducted in March / April 2017, which identified that a number of credit unions (CARs) from Romania were interested in learning from peers about Risk & Credit Management policies and procedures.
The first EaSI Technical Assistance (EaSI TA) workshops from fi-compass in Portugal are being organised to bring together social finance stakeholders such microfinance bodies, national authorities, financial organisations, academia, and non-governmental organisations. Lisbon will be the location for the workshops that are taking place from November 24-26 as part of the three day Ethical and Solidarity Finance Forum (FES III).
A seminar is being organised by fi-compass EaSI TA in the Netherlands on November 16. This will highlight good practice approaches to strategy and business models for microfinance institutions (MFIs) as well as explain innovative techniques for offering complementary business development services (BDS) alongside microcredit. A case study approach will be adopted during the event which will focus on Dutch experience from the Qredits MFI.
This film explains the type of microfinance advisory services that were provided by fi-compass using Technical Assistance from the EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI TA) .
