Partnership Agreements

Within the spirit of collaboration that prevails in the Foundation's project, it sets up agreements with other organizations to boost and multiply the impact of its operations. In this way, the Foundation has signed partnership agreements to promote microfinance activity with the following entities:

  • AMPYME (Micro and Small Enterprise Authority): Joint management of Microfinance in Panama
  • Asomicrofinanzas (Colombia): Governance Training for MFIs managers
  • Accenture Foundation: It collaborates with the Foundation in the operative model and of management of the Network, as well as in the definition of the code of good government of the Foundation.
  • Banco de Desarrollo Económico para Puerto Rico (BDE): The BDE and the Foundation have laid the foundations to create the Corporación para las Microfinanzas - Puerto Rico, the first institution to exist in Puerto Rico that is exclusively devoted to microfinance.
  • Cruz Roja: Training and development of small entrepreneurs in Peru
  • Inter-American Development Bank (IDB): The Foundation and IDB work together to disseminate financial services in Latin America through the promotion of microfinance institutions, the implementation of technological developments, and the pursuit of improvements within regulatory frameworks. These entities collaborate in the qualification of credit officers specialising in microfinance in ten countries, and to enhance good governance in microfinance institutions, for which a manual of good practices in corporate governance will be drawn up and distributed, and training will be provided for 500 members of steering committees from microfinance institutions in the region.
  • Enterprise Solutions to Poverty: Development of business and market.
  • International Finance Corporation (IFC): the Foundation and the IFC work together in a joint investment program for microfinance institutions to promote the reinforcement and future development of the microfinance sector in Latin America.
  • Management Solutions: The company collaborate in the development of the core banking & risks system.
  • Organización de Estados Iberoamericano (OEI): The Foundation and this entity collaborate to provide training and boost self employment among people living in situations of poverty in Colombia and Chile.
  • SAS: Collaboration in the development and unfolding of tools and systems of analysis for the Technological Platform.
  • Sun Microsystems / Oracle: Collaboration in technological infrastructures.
  • Redcamif (Costa Rica): Governance Training for MFIs managers
  • UNED/ Universidad del Pacífico (Perú) / Universidad Javeriana (Colombia) / Instituto de Estudios Bancarios (Chile) / Universidad del Congreso (Argentina): Specialists' massive formation in microfinance, with the obtaining of double qualifications on the part of both Universities.
  • University of Navarre: professors from this Spanish university have collaborated in supervising the drafting of the corporate governance code and code of conduct for the Network and the Foundation.