
Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President of MFTransparency; Fernando Prado, Secretario Ejecutivo of ASOFIN; Nestor Castro, Gerente of FINRURAL; signing MFTransparency’s Endorsement Statement at the transparency workshop in La Paz, Bolivia.
Last week, we officially launched our Transparent Pricing Initiative in Bolivia, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and MicroNed. This project launch in our third Latin American country has been a great success and we’re excited about the widespread support from the diverse Bolivian microfinance community!
Stakeholders from the entire spectrum of the local microfinance industry joined us in the launch of the Transparent Pricing Initiative in Bolivia. The two local microfinance networks ASOFIN and FINRURAL are our strategic implementation partners in this effort and we are very pleased to announce that all their member institutions attended our events in La Paz and Santa Cruz. In La Paz, 71 participants attended our workshop on May 4th, including representatives from the vast majority of MFIs, among them Banco Los Andes ProCredit, Banco Sol, Banco FIE, CRECER, PRODEM and ProMujer, downscaling banks such as Banco Unión and Banca Minorista del Banco de Crédito BCP, as well as the Central Bank of Bolivia (BCB) and the Supervisory Authority of the Financial System (ASFI). Also in attendance were investors including Oikocredit, LOCFUND, Bolivian Investments Management and Alphamundi Group, and other industry stakeholders such as the Corporación Andina de Fomento (CAF), World Vision, Fundación PROFIN, Consultora IMPACTO, CONFIE, AFIN, and representatives of the local media.
