Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc.

Category: Microfinance

  • DLSCC Celebrates 52nd General Assembly

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            The De La Salle Credit Cooperative (DLSCC) celebrated its 52nd anniversary in its Taft Campus. Approximately 1,300 cooperative members who are faculty and staff of De La Salle University system. The General Manager, Dr. Brian Gozun, delivered the good news to the cooperative members that the cooperative has grown to nearly…

  • SEDPI Gets CDA Accreditation

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    On November 24, 2014, the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) got its accreditation from the Cooperative Development Authority (CDA) as training provider. This means that cooperatives can now avail of SEDPI’s training services to comply with the minimum training requirements for cooperatives. This is in compliance to CDA Circular Memorandum 2011-27. The training requirements…

  • MMC Mounts Microfinance Best Practice Forum 2014

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    On September 18-19, 2014, Mindanao Microfinance Council held Microfinance Best Practices Forum 2014 with the theme, “Moulding the Building Blocks of Microfinance.” The sessions during the forum covered enhancing effective operational strategies of MFIs; innovations in microfinance products and delivery systems; risk mitigation through internal control and external audit; and promoting client protection and transparency…

  • MMC Mounts Microfinance Best Practice Forum 2014

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    Mariel Vincent Rapisura
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    On September 18-19, 2014, Mindanao Microfinance Council held Microfinance Best Practices Forum 2014 with the theme, “Moulding the Building Blocks of Microfinance.” The sessions during the forum covered enhancing effective operational strategies of MFIs; innovations in microfinance products and delivery systems; risk mitigation through internal control and external audit; and promoting client protection and transparency…

  • SEDPI Completes SBC Engagement

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    Mariel Vincent Rapisura
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    On June 28, 2014, SEDPI completed the capacity building program to three microfinance institutions (MFIs) under the Department of Trade and Industry’s Rural Micro-Entrepreneur Promotion Program (RuMEPP). RuMEPP was launched in 2007 with the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as its lead implementing agency. RuMEPP is a seven-year project of the International Fund for…

  • SEDPI Top Management Attend Disaster Risk Reduction

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    SEDPI top management attended a two-day event entitled “Business Case for Disaster Risk Reduction.” The United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Disaster Reduction (UNISDR) and SM Prime sponsored the event. Mr. Salonga, Mr. Rapisura and Ms. Sacdalan through the invitation of SM Prime attended the event. It was held at SMX Convention Center in Pasay…

  • MMC Mounts Microfinance Management Conference

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    Mindanao Microfinance Council held its Mindanao Microfinance Management Conference in Davao City on March 28, 2014. The conference theme was “Understanding the State of Microfinance Industry in Mindanao.” The topics in the conference were the initiatives of the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas on microfinance; assessment of the microfinance industry in Mindandao; the state of market…

  • SEDPI Conducts Financial Literacy Training to Palaweños

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    SEDPI trained a total of 696 residents of San Vicente, Palawan on Financial Literacy (FL), December 12-15, 2013. The training is part of SEDPI’s partnership with the Climate Change Commission (CCC) in a project to create eco-towns or ecologically sustainable and economically stable communities. Those who benefitted from this project were mainly entrepreneurial mothers and…

  • SEDPI Conducts Impact Assessment for Vision Bank

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    The Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) conducted an impact assessment research for Vision Bank, Inc. last July 8-12, 2013 in Virac, Catanduanes. The goal of the research is to quantify the impact of Vision Bank loans to its regular and microfinance borrowers—mostly local government unit employees, public school teachers and microentrepreneurs. The results of…

  • SEDPI Facilitated Three Successful Strategic Planning Sessions

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    Prominent Italian historian Niccolo Machiavelli once said, “The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not”. The partners of Social Enterprise Development Partnership, Inc. (SEDPI) hold this statement true after participation in Strategic Planning workshops that SEDPI staff organized…