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2015 – ongoing |
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27 EU Member States, Albania, Iceland, Montenegro, North-Macedonia, Serbia, Turkey |
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EU Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (EaSI)
Technical Assistance for Microfinance
Project Overview
The European Programme for Employment and Social Innovation (henceforth "EaSI") aims to foster employment and social inclusion in Europe by boosting access to, and the availability of, microfinance for micro-enterprises and vulnerable people who wish to start-up or develop their own micro-enterprise.
To reach this goal and expand financial access in Europe, the Programme envisions capacity building for public and private financial service providers (FSPs) within the microfinance sector to improve their operations and widen their outreach.
EaSI Programme Coverage
Within EaSI Technical Assistance, Frankfurt School and its consortium partners have provided tailored trainings to over 1,300 staff from more than 80 FSPs, as well as strengthened their institutional capacity and helped prepare organisations for compliance with the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision. In 2019, the EaSI Programme also started offering investment readiness trainings to prepare FSPs to access funding from the European Investment Fund and other investors.
EaSI Technical Assistance - Service Providers
To further strengthen the European microfinance sector and facilitate the exchange and dissemination of good practices, the EaSI Technical Assistance team has organised more than 130 events: workshops and seminars, peer-to-peer trainings, study visits and web sessions.
These events have served more than more than 3,700 representatives of financial service providers, regulators, NGOs and other stakeholders from the European microfinance sector.
Qredits is proud to be the first European microfinance institution to receive the certificate for compliance with the Code of Good Conduct. We encourage other microcredit providers to implement the Code of Good Conduct in order to bring the alternative financing sector to a higher level professionally and for our joint interests to be represented well at a European level. We are grateful also for the guarantees and programmes made available through the European Commission in support of this sector and feel it is only fair to have to meet the requirements of the Code in order to continue benefitting from these programmes.
EaSI TA was very useful for good.bee Credit and it addressed a series of areas that need improvement from which, we and our clients will benefit in the long run. These areas included Good Governance, Social Performance, Improvement of staff operational efficiency, Sales skills for loan officers and Credit analysis for micro-clients in the agro sector. We considered it to be a success and as a proof of that good.bee Credit applied for the second Call as well.
The training we received vie EaSI TA was far above our expectations. It gave us useful knowledge and skills that will help us in the future to do our job even more professionally and to fulfil the requirements of the EaSI TA programme. Both trainers were very experienced, gave us very useful advice in the areas of Good Governance, Social Performance, Investors’ Relations and Strategic Planning. In addition, they noted our weaknesses and helped us specify additional areas of improvement for our organization.
The Technical Assistance we received was very useful – we really appreciate the flexible approach of Frankfurt School and fi-compass with regards to our needs. The training fully addressed the specific requirements of PerMicro in the areas of Branch and HR management, Credit management and Communication and Marketing. The training also helped discover some other weaknesses and space for improvement, which we would like to deal with in 2017. PerMicro has adopted as daily routine all the skills and knowledge delivered in the training.
Project News
APPLY TODAY - Call for expressions of interest: Employment and Social Innovation programme Technical Assistance
NEW! - The updated European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision has been published
Project Newsletter
Archive (2017 - 2019)
Project News
Evaluation of the EU's Employment and Social Innovation Programme (EaSI) confirms its added value
EaSI Technical Assistance for Microfinance entering a new phase
The EaSI Helpdesk on microfinance is live
European microfinance institutions start to be certified under the European Code of Good Conduct
Latest microfinance advisory news from EaSI TA,including success stories about the European Code of Good Conduct for Microcredit Provision
Nine new microcredit providers to benefit from fi-compass EaSI TA
Second Call for EaSI Technical Assistance to the European Microcredit Sector
European microcredit providers gain from practical fi-compass support
Project Newsletters
EaSI Technical Assistance Newsletter - March 2017
EaSI Technical Assistance Newsletter - July 2017
Upcoming Events
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Past Events
EaSI Technical Assistance web session on Digital Payments and Open Banking for Albanian MFIs, 2 July 2020 at 10:00 – 12:30 CET
March 2020
January 2020
Event Archive (2015-2019)
2019
EaSI Technical Assistance Microfinance study visit to FAER in Romania, 6-7 March 2019
2018
How to access the EaSI Financial Instruments – a microfinance workshop in Albania, 13 December 2018
Six EaSI Technical Assistance workshops during the MFC-EMN Annual Conference 2018
2017
'Microfinance advice for rural Romania': EaSI TA thematic seminar on Product Development and Distribution Channels in Rural Areas, Bucharest, Romania, 19 October 2017
EaSI TA workshop: EU support instruments for microfinance in Poland, Warsaw, 23 March 2017
First fi-compass microfinance workshop in Serbia, 14 March 2017
2016
Workshop on EU instruments for microfinance in Sofia, Bulgaria, 10 November 2016
First EaSI TA workshop on EU Instruments for microfinance in Sofia, Bulgaria: 10 November 2016
Two EaSI TA Workshops during the 3rd European Microfinance Forum, Rome, Italy, 19-21 October 2016
EaSI TA at the Microfinance Centre Annual Conference: 'Microfinance in the Cloud', Tirana, June 2016
'Microfinance in the Cloud': EaSI TA at the Microfinance Centre Annual Conference, Tirana, June 2016
'Microfinance for all?' EaSI TA at a microfinance workshop in Bratislava, May 2016
Hungary and UK host fi-compass workshops for microcredit providers, March 2016
fi-compass workshop supports the development of Greek microfinance, March 2016
EaSI TA at the workshop “Microfinance under the European Social Fund (ESF)”, Brussels, February 2016
2015
EaSI TA at the Conference “University Meets Microfinance” at Frankfurt School, September 2015
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