Making Microfinance Investment Responsible Action Group
Activity period: 2008 – 2012 & 2017 - 2018
Objectives:
The Making Microfinance Investment Responsible (MIR) Action Group aimed to build a framework for strengthening the social strategy of microfinance investment vehicles (MIVs) by creating synergies among actors and developing technical support for investors. This framework promotes standardized, complementary approaches and good practices for microfinance investment funds.
Between 2008 and 2012, the MIR Action Group produced five key publications focusing on social performance and client protection. In 2017, the members of the MIR Action Group gathered again to take stock of how the investors saw the work done as well as to reflect on what still needed to be done to “Make Microfinance Investment Responsible”.
Resources:
e-MFP Brief N°7: ‘The Universal Standards for Social Performance Management - Where do we go from here?’, prepared by Bonnie Brusky (CERISE), Cécile Lapenu (CERISE°, Amelia Greenberg (SPTF) and Kinga Dabrowska (MFC) in collaboration with the e-MFP Making Microfinance Responsible Action Group, October 2018.
e-MFP Brief N°4: Does good client protection impact financial performance?, prepared by B. Perez-Rocha, A.G.F. Hoepner, L. Spaggiari, C. Lapenu and B. Brusky in collaboration with the e-MFP Making Microfinance Responsible Action Group, May 2014.
e-MFP Brief N°2: Strengthening governance for responsible finance: Examples from European Investment Funds, prepared by the e-MFP Making Microfinance Investment Responsible Action Group, October 2011.
e-MFP Brief N°1: Driving investment decisions with social performance information, prepared by the e-MFP Making Microfinance Investment Responsible Action Group, October 2011.
European Dialogue N°3: Making microfinance investment responsible - State of the practice in Europe, Prepared by Cécile Lapenu and Bonnie Brusky in collaboration with the e-MFP Making Microfinance Investment Responsible Action Group, November 2010.
European Dialogue N°1: The role of investors in promoting social performance in microfinance, Prepared by Cécile Lapenu, Bart De Bruyne and Koenraad Verhagen in collaboration with the e-MFP Social Performance Working Group, June 2008.