ECIAfrica

Technical Areas

Developing sustainable financial services to drive economic growth and reduce poverty.

Meeting financial needs is fundamental to driving economic growth and reducing poverty. Over the past decade ECIAfrica has managed numerous projects from advising governments on how to strengthen policy and the regulatory environment to assisting microfinance institutions (MFIs) and banks with strategic planning and product development to designing training programmes.

To be successful, microfinance services need to be integrated into the overall financial services sector. Large commercial banks are increasingly identifying the microfinance and development finance sub-sectors as potential markets, and micro-finance institutions are becoming more formal. The overlap between the formal and informal sectors is growing, and ECIAfrica expertise in these sectors places us in a strong position to advance this process.

ECIAfrica provides services to strengthen the policy and regulatory environment, and support micro-finance and rural finance institutions. Specifically, we provide:

Strategic planning and institutional assessments for MFIs
Technical support for wholesale and retail finance institutions
Product development for MFIs and banks
Help for MFIs to strengthen their market research capacity
Training programme design
Monitoring and evaluation, and impact assessment
Health financing with special reference to HIV/AIDS

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