Partners

Partners

The Microfinance Gateway leverages the expertise of select content management partners, in order to ensure that the content posted to the Microfinance Gateway and its affiliate language sites is fresh, updated and relevant.

Appui au Développement Autonome (ADA)
French Microfinance Gateway Partner

The Microfinance Gateway partners with ADA to develop and manage the Portail Microfinance, the affiliate French language site.

ADA has for over 15 years been a leading player in the field of microfinance in Luxembourg and abroad. ADA is a partner of choice for the assistance of the autonomous development of populations excluded from traditional financial services. As a pioneer and expert in microfinance, ADA initiates and develops news inclusive financial products (such as saving products, credits, insurances, money transfers), helps microfinance research, and builds partnerships to best assist microfinance institutions (MFIs) in their process of professionalisation. ADA is coordinator of the Microinsurance Network, the African Microfinance Transparency Forum and the Rating Initiative Programme. ADA is advisor for the Luxembourg Microfinance and Development Fund and member of Etika, Luxflag, the Luxembourg Round Table on Microfinance, IMS, EVPA, and the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP).

Visit ADA's website: http://www.microfinance.lu/

GRET
French Microfinance Gateway Partner

The Microfinance Gateway also partners with GRET to develop and manage the Portail Microfinance, the affiliate French language site.

GRET (Research and Technological Exchange Group) is a France-based development support organization that works at the interface between research and development in dialogue with government authorities. In microfinance, GRET aims to support or create microfinance institutions. GRET is thus active either as practitioner or by providing support to local institutions in South-East Asia, Africa and Central America. GRET also disseminates technical and support tools for local practitioners. With CIRAD, French Agriculture Center for International Development, for example, GRET co-moderates a thematic French-speaking discussion forum, called “Espace Finance.”

Visit GRET's website: http://www.gret.org/

INCAE Business School
Spanish Microfinance Gateway Partner

The Microfinance Gateway partners with INCAE to develop and manage the Portal de Microfinanzas, the affiliate Spanish language site.

INCAE Business School is a private, non-profit, multinational institution, dedicated to teaching and research in the areas of management, applied economics and sustainable development. It is one of the leading business schools in Latin America and was founded in 1964 under the guidance of the Harvard University Business School. INCAE’s mission is to contribute to the sustainable development of countries through the education of leaders of their key sectors, thus impacting their practices, attitudes and values through academic research, teaching, knowledge dissemination, and the promotion of dialogue between individuals, sectors, and countries.

CLACDS, the Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development, was established in 1996 as an applied research center within INCAE. It promotes changes in public policies, business strategies and social actions through political neutrality and dialogue as a means of helping the region improve its competitiveness and sustainable development.

Visit INCAE's website: http://www.incae.edu

Intellecap (Intellectual Capital Advisory Services)
Content Management Microfinance Gateway Partner

The Microfinance Gateway partners with Intellecap for content management of the English website, to provide the most up-to-date information for the global microfinance community.

Intellectual Capital Advisory Services, or Intellecap, is a growing organization in the international development sector. It has undertaken pioneering initiatives in strategic and consulting support services such as capital advisory and growth management in microfinance and sustainable enterprises, knowledge management services for microfinance institutions, and Investment activities in micro and SME. The primary objective of Intellecap, which operates from India, is to accelerate the growth of upcoming MFIs and micro and small enterprises by coordinating markets, people and capital internationally.

Visit Intellecap's website: http://www.intellecap.net

Sanabel (The Microfinance Network of the Arab Countries)
Arabic Microfinance Gateway Partner

The Microfinance Gateway partners with Sanabel Network to develop and manage the affiliate Arabic language site.

Sanabel is a membership-driven network for microfinance institutions in the Arab countries. Its members serve 80% of the active microfinance clients – 775,000 microentrepreneurs – in the region. It aims to maximize outreach to microentrepreneurs by providing microfinance institutions with a forum for mutual learning and exchange, capacity building services, and advocacy for good practice microfinance. Sanabel's focus on information exchange has three main objectives: provide a regular forum where practitioners can debate major issues and work together to push the industry forward, develop a central web-based resource in Arabic that can provide for discussion, dissemination of microfinance literature and other information, and disseminate information about microfinance in the Arab world.

Visit Sanabel's website: http://www.sanabelnetwork.org