| Country : Bénin
Internship : Solidarité Mondiale
Description of the Institution
Solidarité Mondiale est l’ONG du Mouvement Ouvrier Chrétien regroupant en son sein différentes organisations sociales. Financer ses partenaires et assurer l’éducation au développement sont les principaux objectifs de l’organisation.
Name of the student : Dandoy Sébastien (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Articulations entre micro-assurance santé et microcrédit. Analyses des expériences du programme d’économie sociale WSM/FBS en Afrique de l’Ouest"
Internship : PADME
Description of the Institution
The objective of PADME is to improve the development of micro-enterprises in Benin. To achieve this objective, PADME offers financial services, management and business trainings, and assistance in the follow up of loans. PADME also provides several advices to micro-entrepreneurs on demand.
The key objectives are:
- Providing Microfinance services to micro-enterprises and to individuals;
- Financing profit earnings activities done by Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs);
- Providing information, awareness and training to micro-entrepreneurs of the informal sector in order to help them to better run their businesses.
Name of the student : Mamadou Diallo (2006-2007)
Title of thesis :
“Matching MFI management information needs with appropriate Management Information Systems (MIS): a case study of Padme”
Country: Burkina Faso
Internship : RCPB (Réseau des Caisses Populaires du Burkina)
Description of the Institution
Le RCPB a pour objectifs de promouvoir et développer des coopératives d'épargne et de crédit ; mobiliser l'épargne locale pour le financement du développement local ; lutter contre la pratique de l'usure par la mise en place de structures financières décentralisées et accessibles à tous ; former les populations à la gestion de ces structures ; et développer, d'une part, l'éducation sur la santé de la mère et de l'enfant, et d'autre part, la formation à la gestion d'activités rémunératrices pour les femmes démunies en milieu rural.
Name of the student : Parra Claudie (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "L'analyse d'une structure organisationnelle d'un réseau de coopératives d'épargne et de crédit. Le cas du RCPB"
Country: Democratic Republic of Congo
Internship : Banque centrale du Congo
Description of the Institution
La Banque Centrale du Congo a pour objectif de maintenir la stabilité monétaire par une politique de crédit et du change favorable au développement équilibré de l'économie de la République Démocratique du Congo.
Name of the student : Geulette Guillaume (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Microfinance investments in Democratic Republic of Congo: is a conducive regulatory framework enough?"
Country: Ethiopia
Internship: ACORD
Description of the Institution
ACORD is building its future as a genuinely international Africa-led alliance of groups and individuals addressing aspects of rights and social justice that underlie the poverty of those on the fringes of African societies. The actions of the organization are: Research, action and reflection, support to local organisations/structures, mobilising resources, influencing relevant policies, practices and attitudes, working in alliances with others, working across national boundaries where appropriate.
Name of the student : Fanta Sylvie (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "When microfinance meets other rationalities…Aspects of ownership of a credit scheme in Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia. The case of ACORD"
Country: Jordan
Internship: Tamweelcom
Description of the Institution
Tamweelcom was founded in 1999 as a limited liability non-profit company fully owned by Noor Al-Hussein Foundation (NHF), which operates as an independent entity under the umbrella of the King Hussein Foundation (KHF). From the beginning, Tamweelcom's aim was to educate clients to differentiate between subsidized lending (charity) and credit, as well as the importance of paying on time through operating in the market on commercially based methodologies to achieve the company's goal set.
Name of the student : Souada Kermani (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "How to optimize a communication campaign in the Jordan microfinance market?"
Country: Madagascar
Internship: Microcred
Description of the Institution
MicroCred Madagascar was inaugurated in December 2006 and six months later they have attained a portfolio of over 2000 clients and opened three agencies in the capital. For the moment the aim is to finance small and medium size enterprises generally excluded from the banking sector and hence contribute to the local economical development. MicroCred Madagascar will soon obtain the legal status of a bank which entails that they will be allowed to collect savings; this new project will be launched in October later this year. Within shortly the institution is also planning to develop a micro-insurance product and open agencies in five other provinces within the coming five years although remaining focused on urban microfinance.
Name of the student : Aline Histas (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Is there potential to open new saving products in Microcred Madagascar Institution? How can this new activity be introduced?"
Internship: Microcred
Name of the student : Thèrèse Sandmark (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "What are the key elements to successfully include microfinance in development projects and programmes?"
Internship: Microcred
Name of the student : Amélie Vangrunderbeek (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Market Survey to provide a new microfinance product: microinsurance"
Country: Mali
Internship: NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture Development)
Description of the Institution
NABARD is an institution with operations in the field of credit for agriculture and other economic activities in rural Countries in India. NABARD serves as an apex financing agency for the institutions providing investment and production credit for promoting the various developmental activities in rural Countries; takes measures towards institution building for improving absorptive capacity of the credit delivery system, including monitoring, formulation of rehabilitation schemes, restructuring of credit institutions, training of personnel, etc. ; co-ordinates the rural financing activities of all institutions engaged in developmental work at the field level and maintains liaison with Government of India, State Governments, Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and other national level institutions concerned with policy formulation; and undertakes monitoring and evaluation of projects refinanced by it.
Name of the student : Vasquez Montano Diana (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Complementary between banks and microfinance institutions"
Internship:
Cellule de Contrôle et de Surveillance des Systèmes Financiers
Décentralisés, Ministère des Finances
Description of the Institution
The CCS/SFD is the department of the Ministry of Finance
responsible for the supervision of Malian MFIs. Its role is to hand out
official licenses to new MFIs, to regularly audit and control existing MFIs
and to keep track of statistics on Malian MFIs.
Name of the student : Nicolas Derbin (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "The Solvability Analysis of Malian Microfinance Institutions as a Supervision Tool for the Ministry of Finance"
Country: Morocco
Internship : Banque Centrale du Maroc
Description of the Institution
En février 2006, les Associations de microcrédits ont été soumises au contrôle de la Banque Centrale Al Maghrib au Maroc. C'est à la direction de la supervision bancaire qu'est revenue la responsabilité de la mise en place de la réflexion sur la régulation du secteur. Un groupe de travail a été mis en place au sein de cette direction afin d'établir une méthode de suivi adaptée à la spécificité du secteur.
Name of the student : Schott Sandra (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Mise en place d’une supervision efficace des MFI’s: gouvernance et organisation"
Internship: Planet Finance Morocco
Description of the Institution
Planet Finance has for mission to develop the microfinance sector. Its objectives are: develop effective tools to develop microfinance worldwide, guarantee ethics and excellence in the development of all activities, and become a self-sufficient organization by developing diversified and sustainable products.
PlaNet Finance supports these financial intermediaries and increases their growth by federating them and providing operational services which enable them to strengthen their technical capacities and financial resources. PlaNet Finance also works with the private sector (banks and financial institutions), governments and international organizations in order to increase microfinance sustainability.
Name of the student : Moreau Pascale (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Centrale des risques en microfinance: méthodologie, démarches, facteurs de succès de la centrale des risques au Maroc"
Internship: Al Amana
Description of the Institution
Created in 1997, Al Amana is a microcredit association operating in Morocco. Its mission is to participate to social integration and economic development through microfinance services delivery and promotion of microenterprises, in order to contribute to the improvement of the working and living conditions of its clients and to the promotion of its skills. Al Amana wants to play a significant role into the extension of financial services to the whole Moroccan population that is, in majority, excluded from the traditional banking sector because of their lack of financial resources. Consequently, Al Amana provides microfinance services in urban but also, increasingly, in rural areas, in the form of loans for the development of economic activities and for the financing of housing. Besides that, Al Amana also offers non financial services to its clients.
Name of the student : Julien Gérard (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Reflexion on drought risk management linked to rural credit of Al Amana"
Internship: Al Amana
Name of the student : Arnaud Gillin (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Main steps to prepare an MFI for a microcredit portfolio securization programme"
Internship: Al Amana
Name of the student : Alexandra Toubia (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Housing microfinance: the case of Al Amana"
Internship:
Ambassade de France au Maroc
Description of the Institution
The Service of Cooperation and Cultural Actions of the French Embassy in Morocco is aimed to strenghten cooperation programmes and projects between Morocco and France in diversified developmenent fields such as relations with associations & NGOs (including the ones developing microfinance projects), human rights, health, urbanism, education, research and cultural events.
Name of the student : Laetita Ricklin (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "New Developments and Downscaling in Brazil : What impact on Micro-entrepreneurship?"
Country: Rwanda
Internship: Aquadev
Description of the Institution
The goal of Aquadev is fighting against the broad notion of South inequalities. The partners belong mainly to social groups that have weaker chances to improve their well being than other ones having organized the social life at their own profit.
They are three main sectors: the microfinance (decentralized financial sector and support to the small and medium businesses), the nutritional security improvement (according to a planning and a multisectorial approach, including for example a support to the decentralization process) and the environment in urban environment (directed towards the planning and the water cleaning up).
Name of the student : Vanderstricht Felix (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "Faciliter l’accès aux soins de santé pour les populations pauvres et les indigents au Rwanda"
Country: Senegal
Internship: AD Finance (Aquadev)
Description of the Institution
Les cellules d’expertise nationale dénommées « ADFinance ». Les cellules ADFinance sont unies par des liens de partenariat aux IMF et à leurs fédérations, et collaborent avec tous les acteurs du Secteur Financier décentralisé. Les cellules ADFinance fournissent un appui institutionnel et technique aux IMF partenaires. Les IMF partenaires collaborent à l'élaboration et à la mise en oeuvre du plan d'appui institutionnel et technique. Les cellules recherchent et produisent des outils spécialisés pour le Secteur Financier Décentralisé qui sont mis à la disposition du secteur. Les cellules ADFinance sont principalement composées de personnel local ou d'expatriés Sud-Sud. Cette politique vise à renforcer les capacités des experts locaux et à faire des cellules ADFinance de véritables pôles d'expertises intégrés.
Name of the student : Derdari Btissam (2005-2006)
Title of thesis : "La gestion du risque et la viabilité des institutions de microfinance"
Internship: Aquadev
Description of the Institution
AQUADEV is an international non governmental organisation and a non-profit research office, registered by a Belgian ministerial order, the European Commission, the West African Bank of Development (BOAD) and the African Bank of Development (BAD).
AQUADEV is specialised in feasibility studies and project or programme realisations that aim to reinforce its southern partner's organisational decision capacities. AQUADEV's partners are encouraged to organise themselves through activities generating supplementary revenues in a sustainable way in the following domains: microfinance, agro-alimentary and environment. AQUADEV's approach mainly aims to guarantee the viability of the conducted actions through the use of rigorous identification, conception and evaluation methodologies.
Name of the student : Marie-Anne Galouzeau de Villepin (2006-2007)
Title of thesis : "Microfinance and natural disaster: how could microfinance help rural households to cope with natural disaster. Illustrations with the natural disaster implemented in Senegal.”
Country: Tunisia
Internship:
African Development Bank
Description of the Institution
The AfDB is a regional multilateral development finance institution established in 1964 to mobilise resources towards the economic and social progress of its Regional Member Countries (RMCs). Since the beginning of its operations in 1966, the bank has become a key player in promoting economic and social development in African states.
Name of the student : Sélim Kharrat (2006-2007)
Title of thesis :
"How can microfinance institutions serve the very small and small enterprises market segment in Africa"
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