Official recognition and ethical involvement
Entrepreneurs du Monde is a registered charity, committed to meeting exacting standards of ethics, transparency, and social impact in all its actions.
A recognised and supported NGO
Our credibility rests on our status and our strong institutional partnerships. Entrepreneurs du Monde is a registered charity, which ensures the transparency and rigour of our actions.
We also enjoy the support of public institutions and trusted partners, such as the Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the European Union, and other institutional actors, who strengthen our impact and our ability to develop sustainable projects.
The AFD Group has supported Entrepreneurs du Monde and its ecosystem over many years. Financial inclusion is one of the AFD’s long-standing themes, and Entrepreneurs du Monde is a well-known partner in this field, respected for its expertise and savoir-faire in responsible social microfinance in the service of vulnerable populations. Dialogue with the association is of high quality, professional, and confidential.
Don en Confiance approval: a guarantee for our donors
Entrepreneurs du Monde is a Don en Confiance association. Don en Confiance is an independent organization that monitors the proper use of donations. It grants its recognition after evaluating organizations that commit to complying with its ethical standards.
In addition, both of the impact investment companies in our ecosystem have ESUS (Entreprise Solidaire d’Utilité Sociale) approval, and Microfinance Solidaire is approved by Finansol, which is a measure of its responsible and solidarity-based finance.
We also belong to the1% for the Planet movement, alongside actors committed to protecting the environment.
These certificates affirm our resolve and our commitment to maximising the social impact of our actions.
Recognition of our social model
The impact of our actions and the pertinence of our models have regularly been commended by national and international awards:
- Prix européen de la microfinance for Yikri, our social microfinance institution in Burkina Faso
- Grands Prix de la finance solidaire : Assilassimé (2014) and Nafa Naana (2016).
- IF Social Impact Prize : Munafa (2020) and Des Saveurs et des Ailes (2022).
- Prix “coup de cœur des collaborateurs” from the Eiffage Foundation for Un Toit Vers l’Emploi.
These prizes strengthen our legitimacy and are a measure of the effectiveness of our actions in the field
Contributing to international reflections
Entrepreneurs du Monde is actively involved in several international solidarity networks in order to share good practice, to innovate, and to influence public policies:
- Conseil national pour le développement et la solidarité internationale (CNDSI) : a French-state multi-actor discussion forum on the challenges of development policy and international solidarity.
- Coordination Sud : national coordination of French international solidarity NGOs.
- Groupe Initiative : a collective of 15 professional development associations who share their experience and skills.
- Coordination humanitaire et développement (CHD) : humanitarian, reconstruction and development actions around the world.
- European Microfinance Platform : e-MFP is the leading network of organizations and individuals active in the field of financial inclusion in developing countries.
- Social Performance Task Force : the Social Performance Task Force (SPTF) has developed the Universal Standards for Social and Environmental Performance Management.
These undertakings strengthen the quality of our interventions, and our capability for innovation, alongside numerous actors in the sector.
Exchange of knowledge
We share our approach, our experiences and our tools, and we enrich ourselves through the practices of others.
Interventions at events :
- Intervention at European Microfinance Week, 2024:
- The sharing of experience at the Paris Impact Network on gender integration in developing countries.
- Intervention at the launch of a long-term partnership with the French Development Agency: “ Social Microfinance and Social and Solidarity-based Economy in the fight against poverty in developing countries”
- Organisation of a webinar to meet HR needs and the challenge of social enterprises, whilst at the same time advancing gender equality.
Publications :
- E-MFP – Comment Entrepreneurs du Monde a-t-elle construit un réseau d’IMF sociales depuis 25 ans (en anglais)
- Proparco – Secteur Privé & Développement – #41 – Agir en contextes fragiles : financements, partenariats, innovations
- AVSF – Pour des dispositifs adaptés à l’économie sociale et solidaire à lucrativité limitée existante ou émergente dans les pays partenaires de l’aide
- F3E – Vivre le genre et Agir pour le genre
- E-MFP – Pratiques essentielles vertes, points forts des bonnes pratiques écologiques
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Launch of a multi-year partnership agreement with AFD
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