Since 2001, the Solidarity Finance workshop has focused its interest on the issues of financial tools, used in the North as well as in the South. Its objectives is to make basic financial services accessible to the poorest populations (mainly on saving and credit). The proceedings were focused on an underestimated topic: the relations between solidarity finance and social ties.
Since 2003, the Solidarity Finance workshop chose to deepen these reflections in order to define professionally solidarity finance (specific skills, professional activities, management and operational standards) and to raise the lenders awareness concerning the concept and foster their interest in solidarity finance and in the creation of incentives for MFIs.
