Specific Support Programmes:

  • We assess business ventures for sustainability and market. Where certification for private standards is needed, service providers and quality assurance are sourced.
  • We provide business and personal financial training and monitor adherence to the priciples.
  • We provide linkage to a pool of financial systems for reporting and compliance.
  • We provide access to finance tailor-made for the business, i.e. input loans for agriculture.
  • We provide access to defined markets.
  • We encourage savings mobilisation and practice as a means to credit access.

    Launch of the South African Microfinance Apex Fund by the Deputy Minister of Trade & Industry Ms Elizabeth Thabethe at Makwane Village, Free State - 3 March 2006.