Grameen CrĂŠdit Agricole Microfinance Foundation four years of commitment to fighting poverty, new ambitions in Microfinance and Social Business
Reducing world poverty: everybody’s business, therefore ours The Foundation's mandate fits into the scheme of the Millennium Development Goals, especially goal n°1: to halve extreme poverty by 2015 compared to 1990. The World Bank estimates that this goal is about to be reached before the deadline. But
More than one billion people still live on less than $1.25 per day, The situation is uneven: 33 out of the 50 poorest countries in the world, ranked by the human development index (HDI), are located in sub-Saharan Africa. The poorest have no access to essential goods and services, which locks them even more into the vicious circle of poverty: access to energy, water, sanitation, health, education ...
Technical innovation and marketing can help make these goods and services accessible to the poorest (BOP), but is it sufficient? 2
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The vast majority of the poor have no access to banking and financial services
According to the G20, 2.5 billion people have no access to financial services
20,5%
30,0% 25,0%
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The banking rate remains very low in most developing countries Technological innovation (mobile banking) can help make financial services accessible to the poorest. Will this innovation be sufficient?
20,0%
12,6%
15,0%
Taux pénétration microfinance
10,0%
Taux bancarisation (crédits)
5,0% 0,0%
0,4% 1,8%
2,2% 0,2%
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2,9%
8,1%
Microfinance and social business: two approaches successfully tested by Professor Yunus
Microfinance and Social Business (SB) want to combine technical and social innovation and to use the strength of the market economy for the benefit of the fight against poverty.
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MF and SB follow a business model to ensure their sustainability and development, but their mission is social. Over and above the techniques used, the goal is to give people back their dignity. In contact with reality, innovative solutions have been invented that need to be adapted to local conditions. Risk of drift when the social mission is forgotten.
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Microfinance : meeting two basic needs
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Accompanying microentrepreneurs in their economic projects: Microcredit
Protecting against the hazards of life and nature: micro savings and microinsurance
3,652 microfinance institutions in the world, 200 million active borrowers in developing countries
Outstanding loans of $67.6 billion at end 2010
Total savings of $32.9 billion at end 2010
Microinsurance: nearly 500 million people worldwide benefit from microinsurance, out of which 87% have life microinsurance products and 13% have non-life microinsurance products
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Social Business : a corporate response to a social problem
The ambition of SB is to combine entrepreneurial and solidarity spirits and to find economically sustainable innovative solutions to social problems. The shareholders are motivated by the social mission and waive any personal enrichment.
3 examples: Laiterie du Berger (Senegal) The Laiterie du Berger ensures a steady income for over 950 families
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Grameen Danone Food (Bangladesh) Grameen Danone Foods Ltd produces highly enriched yogurt to meet the nutritional deficiencies of children
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PhilĂŠol (Madagascar) PhileoL plays a pioneering role in the region of Androy securing an income for 3,000 farmers through the establishment of an inclusive value chain
Social Business : the best of both worlds?
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Social Business uses entrepreneurship to fight poverty and provide solutions to problems of nutrition, access to clean water, health, education, housing ... The social mission is at the heart of corporate strategy and is not a peripheral issue
Objective Maximisation of financial return
Objective Financial Sustainability + Social return
Objective Social return only
Instruments Debt/ Equity
Tools Debt/ Equity
Tools Donations
Social Business must be profitable to be sustainable, but its profits are reinvested to develop the business, to improve the accessibility of products, or to fund other SBs Grameen CrĂŠdit Agricole Microfinance Foundation - 6 March 2012
Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation : a unique alliance
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A clear mission: to contribute to the fight against poverty through microfinance and social business
Status of non-profit organisation: Foundation under Luxembourg law
An allocation of 50 million euros provided from inception by Crédit Agricole SA, permanently acquired by the Foundation
An independent and prestigious Governance: a Board of 12 members, chaired by Jean-Marie Sander
Professional management: a team of 15 specialists, entirely dedicated to the mission of the Foundation
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An independant Governance The Foundation is administered by a Board of 12 Directors from CrĂŠdit Agricole Group and Grameen Trust (including Professor Yunus) as well as key figures, including HRH the Grand Duchess Maria Teresa of Luxembourg.
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It is chaired by Jean-Marie Sander
It has two specialised committees
Projects Committee
Ethics, Compliance and Audit Committee
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A professional management
The Foundation is made up of a team of 15 professionals managed by Jean-Luc Perron and organised into three units :
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Development and Technical Assistance Unit (Philippe Guichandut)
Investment Unit (JĂźrgen Hammer)
Administration and Management Unit (Pascal Webanck)
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Microfinance : a unique positioning
Our goal: to go where the specialised investment funds do not go or go very little, by providing appropriate responses to needs
Our priorities:
Our means of action: loans, guarantees, equity investments
Loans from 3 to 7 years, No real guarantee 95% funding from the Foundation in local currency
Our dual approach: financial analysis and analysis of social performance
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Segmentation: mid-sized institutions that do not have easy access to financing Geography: Africa, Middle East, South and Southeast Asia Sector: Agriculture and rural Orientation: institutions heavily involved in the social mission of microfinance
CERISE Certification
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Chamroeun offers microfinance products primarily to very poor urban families
Chamroeun (Cambodia) intervenes mainly in the province of Phnom Penh, the least well served in the country, offering its services to more than 15,000 people, of which 80% are women. The average loan is â‚Ź88. 12
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Microfinance: in four years, 24 partner MFIs in 15 countries
The Foundation MFI partners serve 1,223,000 borrowers
The comparison between the profile of the Foundation partners' borrowers and that of MFIs funded by the Investment Fund * shows the positioning of the Foundation. 100% 80%
Average Loan
91% 74% 60%
1, 632 US$ 2000
44%
60%
38%
1500
40%
1000
5%
20%
221 US$ 500
0% % femmes
% rural
% Afrique SubSaharienne
Fondation Etude Symbiotics
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* Symbiotics Study 2011 on 70 funds representing 87% of the assets of all investment microfinance specialised vehicles
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Soro Yiriwaso intervenes in southern Mali mainly in rural areas
Soro Yiriwaso is a rural MFI that finances primarily women (95% of its portfolio of 75,000 customers), providing Group agricultural loans especially designed to fit its borrowers needs
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Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation : an actor
As of 31 December 2011, 47 grants had been approved since the beginning for a total amount of €32.2 million
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42 microfinance institutions: loans or guarantees Five social business enterprises: equity investments Investment in the TCX Fund (hedging of exotic currencies)
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To go further in the fight against poverty I.
Accompanying more African agricultural and rural institutions
Implementation of a « Launch facility for African MFIs »
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Broadening the range of MFIs’ services in agricultural microinsurance
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Active participation in research and testing of index insurance systems
Rallying informed investors, socially motivated, to Social Business
Approval by the Foundation Board of Directors of the creation of the Grameen Crédit Agricole Social Business Fund*
* Subject to approval by the CSSF
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Expanding our microfinance financing offer in Africa Take-off Facility for Microfinance in Africa
Objective: to reach more rural and agricultural MFIs in Western and Eastern Africa
Easing of financial criteria
Combination with strong technical assistance for institutional strengthening
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Developing Agricultural Microinsurance Participate in the development of innovative index-based microinsurance systems
Monitoring: participation in the international microinsurance network
Research: partnership agreement with Pacifica, University of Paris-Nanterre, SpotImage and the Europlace Institute of Finance
Experimentation : partnership Agreement with Planet Guarantee to deploy pilot crop index insurance in four countries in West Africa
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The Grameen CrĂŠdit Agricole Social Business Fund * Rally informed investors to the development of SB enterprises
A Fund dedicated 100% to SB : 15 to 20 millions Euros, debt and equity investment in SB enterprises in Africa and South Asia
A fund that will be a SB in itself : the fund is aimed at the maximisation of the social impact. No enrichment of investors beyond their nominal investment, profits will be recycled in favor of the social mission
A fund closely linked to the Foundation which will be both a key investor and the exclusive advisor of the Fund to carry out its investment policy
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Reconcile different approaches to solidarity investment Cooperation institutions and development Banks
Official Development Assistance
NGOs and Foundations
Traditional Philanthropy
HNWI Investorsen Private Equity
Venture Philanthropy
Savings of individuals and institutional investors
Enterprises
Socially Responsible Investment
CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility)
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Cooperation agencies and development banks Foundations, family offices, institutional Informed individual investors (minimum €125,000) Subsequently: employees of Crédit Agricole (through their Company Savings Plan) Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation - 6 March 2012
Grameen Crédit Agricole Social Business Fund : projects’ ’ facilitator Minority investor with Social Business entrepreneurs
« Patient investor »
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Catalyst, alongside large companies wishing to engage in processes of social business
Committed financier, active in governance and supporting companies through ad hoc Technical Assistance
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Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance : a unique alliance Carry far the values of Crédit Agricole and the principles of Grameen to serve lenders of hope The moral authority of Prof. M. Yunus A close partnership with Grameen The constant support of Crédit Agricole Working closely with Group entities A committed Board of Directors and a motivated team
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Jean-Marie SANDER and Muhammad YUNUS
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