The Maison de la Presse hosted, this Friday, the ceremony for the supply {of professional} commencement in microfinance to 62 recipients: these of the 6ᵉ promotion “company supervisor” and the 9ᵉ promotion “buyer officer” for the session of 2024. The occasion was organized by the skilled affiliation of decentralized monetary techniques in Senegal (APSFD-Sénégal), in partnership Financial institution, below the presidency of Mr. Alioune Dione, Minister of Microfinance and the Social and Solidarity Economic system (ESS).
After the speech of the president of the APSFD-Sénégal, Mamadou Cissé, who invited the recipients to attract inspiration from the 2 sponsors by highlighting the motto “serve and to not use”, as exhorted by Professor Louis Toma, Minister Alioune Dione insisted on the necessity to additional strengthen this program. He highlighted the significance of enhancing the effectiveness of interventions so as to higher meet the financing wants of populations.
The Minister of Microfinance and the Social and Solidarity Economic system defined that the microfinance sector has made vital progress. He stated that the efficiency of the sector has enabled Senegal to occupy a reference place throughout the UEMOA. These advances end result from a coverage oriented in direction of the availability of economic companies and the stabilization of the sector. “At present, microfinance is a dynamic sector, serving a big a part of the inhabitants, and performs a key position in selling monetary inclusion,” he stated.
In response to him, in accordance with the orientations of the brand new letter of sectoral coverage from the Ministry of Microfinance and the Social and Solidarity Economic system, his division is engaged in an revolutionary strategy. This goals to place microfinance as an engine for the event of neighborhood financial initiatives, with the purpose of sustainably enhancing the residing situations of the populations.
It must also be recalled that Mr. Djibril Diop, senior govt of the Ministry of Retirement Finance, and Ms. Seynabou Mbaye Sow, former administrator and supervisor of MEC Le Sine, have been designated respectively sponsor of the 6ᵉ Promotion and godmother of the 9ᵉ Promotion.
