Activity period: 2011 – 2016

Objectives: 

The e-MFP Investors in Tier 2/3 MFIs Action Group gathered a collaborative group of microfinance investment organisations to address a common interest: improve their support to tier 2/3 MFIs. From 2011 to 2016, they have shared information about their investment practices and partners in order to avoid overlap and duplication of efforts, and to further support and develop their partner tier 2/3 MFIS. The activities of the AG aimed to enhance cooperation among microfinance investors and establish and maintain an environment where investors do not see each other as competitors but as partners supporting the microfinance sector.

Activities:

• Meeting 2 times a year to share information, discuss and analyse data provided by group members.

• Support and commission research activities contributing to further define the group’s targets, namely annual surveys among investors with surveys conducted in 2012, 2013, and 2014.

• Produce informative publications, policy notes and position statements.

Resources:

• Position Paper no.1 on supporting smaller MFIs to advance financial inclusion, prepared by the e-MFP Action Group of Investors in Tier 2/3 MFIs July 2012 (AG Annual Survey 2012)

• Discussion Paper no. 1 on working towards a common consensus on the definition of Tiers in microfinance, prepared by the e-MFP Action Group of Investors in Tier 2/3 MFIs April 2013

  
  

• Position Paper no.2 on the results of the survey conducted among the AG members according to the definition of tiers in microfinance, prepared by Jonas Enrico Luini and Philippe Guichandut, Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation in collaboration with the e-MFP Action Group of Investors in Tier 2/3 MFIs, November 2013 (AG Annual Survey 2013)

• EMW 2013 Session ‘Second and third tier MFIs: Where do we stand?’ (presentation by MicroRate), November 2013

• AG Annual Survey 2014 Report, prepared by Gabriela Erice and Daniel Rozas in collaboration with the e-MFP Investors in Tier 2/3 MFIs AG, 2014