During the last weeks SBFIC East Africa carried out a couple of activities: On 17th December 2014 the annual planning workshop AMIR – SBFIC has been conducted in Karongi. During the workshop the AMIR Management, AMIR-board and the Senior-Management of SBFIC discussed their planned activities in 2015. After getting an idea of AMIR’s core-activities in 2015 three different work groups worked out a section of the action plan 2015. The action plan is the basis for our common work and includes all their activities like financial education, capacity development and others. Taking successful business decisions is essential to all micro-entrepreneurs. To help them learn, AMIR in cooperation with SBFIC introduced an educational board game to Rwanda. The board simulation “Basic Micro Business System” is a tailor-made solution to teach micro-entrepreneurs vital business skills. In order to spread the use of this game, AMIR and SBFIC conducted a Train-the-Trainer program, training 23 local trainers to teach others. SBFIC looks back on 20 years of experience with these simulations and has carried out hundreds of trainings, many of them in Rwanda and Burundi. On 22nd – 24th December 2014 micro entrepreneurs of the Microfinance institution FSTE (Fonds de Solidarité des Travailleurs de lEnseignement) in Rumonge, Burundi, were taken through the various phases in the life of a small production company by two Burundian trainers. During the game simulated problems became more complex, so that the participants had greater the challenges to resolve. The game offered learning progress in various fields: The participants assumed the leadership of a business and take decisions concerning its management and therefore got insight into internal and external factors that influence their business. They received feedback by their trainers what lead to a process of reflecting their own actions. Thus, the participants had the chance to apply their newly acquired knowledge during the course of the seminar and implement their newly acquired skills in the transfer session. On 8th January 2015 the Management of RIM (Réseau des institutions de Microfinance au Burundi) and their board as well as the Senior- Management of SBFIC worked out the action plan for their common activities in 2015. The program includes many activities like financial education, improvement of the Management-Information-System in order to enhance the reports to the Central Bank of Burundi, the establishment of a microfinance academy in Burundi and others. In September 2014 SBFIC, AMIR (association of microfinance institutions) and ARC (American Refugee Camp) officially signed a memorandum of understanding to render services in financial education and a series of trainings of the Managementgame for micro entrepreneurs. Between the 6th and 9th January 2015 another training has been conducted in the refugee camp Kigeme, Nyamagabe district. In Burundi the first mission for the establishment of the planned new microfinance academy took place during 5th to 9th January 2015. The two German experts Julia Peylo and Prof. Dr. Dieter Gramlich worked out the business and strategic plan for the academy. In order to collect information about the needs of the sector they conducted several interviews with the Management of RIM (Réseau des institutions de Microfinance au Burundi) and RIM’s member institutions. The new academy shall cover the trainings needs in vocational practical training for the microfinance sector including the microfinance institutions’ clients, the micro entrepreneurs.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 08:01:15 +0000
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