In Pursuit of Good Governance – In West Africa, Creating More Inclusive Financial Systems
This is the last installment in our series, In Pursuit of Good Governance, with stories from our new annual report. The four-part series examines a question that our partners face every day: How do communities access and organize basic services to ensure a better quality of life? Reliable hospitals, schools and community centers. Flourishing economies. […]
Seeing Change in the Happiness of Microfinance Clients
We wrap up our Giving Tuesday series, How I See Change, with the story shared by Simplice Amani, an operations manager with Première Agence de Microfinance (a microfinance bank) in Ivory Coast. Read on to see how your support helps people like Simplice work with communities to improve their quality of life. Do you have […]
Mobile Microfinance Solutions in West Africa
This blog was originally posted by Daniel Vidal on Whole Planet’s “Stories from the Field” blog, which you can read here. Additional funding from Whole Planet Foundation (WPF) grows the partnership with Aga Khan Development Network for mobile microfinance solutions and improving the options for families in West Africa. In one of the world’s poorest regions, WPF and its partners are […]
Growing the Range of Whole Planet Microfinance Clients
This blog was originally posted by Daniel Vidal on the Whole Planet Foundation blog on June 7, 2013 and republished with permission. One of the Whole Planet Foundation’s (WPF) newest partners is helping low-income borrowers in two new partner countries that supply Whole Foods Markets with chocolate. Aga Khan Foundation’s partnership with WPF started with a $500,000 interest free loan to Première Agence de […]
Access to Microfinance in West Africa
The Aga Khan Foundation U.S.A. (AKF USA), with a grant from Whole Planet Foundation (WPF), is developing a mobile banking platform to expand access to financial services, in particular savings, to rural clients. In one of the world’s poorest regions, the partners are exploring how to expand savings services to communities, including the use of mobile technology, to help […]