The Caisses d’Epargne launched the Ecureuil Coopération (EC) programme in 2007 to promote international cooperation and volunteering.
The programme covers 4 main activities:
- Volunteering: to help savings banks and MFIs, through a community of volunteering employees from Caisses d’Epargne, who accept to share their professional expertise with partner financial institutions, mainly in developing countries. For example, the volunteering experts may contribute to the design and marketing of new products adapted to low-income populations, or to the implementation of a new information technology system. They may conduct management or sales training sessions for managers and sales agents. Additional methodology in the field of financial education is also offered to the partners, to reinforce their social role in the field of financial inclusion.
Since its creation, more than 150 missions have been organized all around the world.
- Lobbying actions: through a participation in various structures and think-tanks seeking to promote the cooperative model and social business.
- Hosting delegations: The Fédération Nationale des Caisses d’Epargne (FNCE) regularly receive foreign delegations from financial field or cooperative sector. The aim of those encounters is to raise attention on case studies of best practices and to develop international partnerships.
- Partnerships: in order to maintain a strategic role in the international stage, the Fédération Nationale des Caisses d’Epargne (FNCE) became member of several European and international organizations such as ESBG/WSBI, EBI, and ICA.
The FNCE has also developed partnerships with cultural organizations reflecting international cooperation like Institut du Monde Arabe (Institute of the Arab World). This cultural institution reflects the values and the specificities of the Arab World.
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