EXPERIENCING DONOR COORDINATION: lessons learned from AFD, UNCDF, EC

European Microfinance Week 2012 – November 16th, 2012

Participants:Renée Chao-Beroff, Managing director, PAMIGA Ivana Damjanov, MicroLead Programme Specialist, UNCDFMichael Knaute, Managing director, Oxus Development Network Emmanuel Moyart, Coordinator, ACP/EU MICROFINANCEPhilippe Serres, Chargé d’affaires senior, AFD

Moderator:Antonique Koning, Microfinance Specialist, Donor and investor team, CGAP

EXPERIENCING DONOR COORDINATION

• A chance to implement larger and more more inovative projects• Donor funds are a chance for Knowledge and experience sharing• Strong need in donor money to push the boundaries• Try to organise multi-donor funds and facilities• Beneficiaries must keep the leadership of the project• Strong local presence and local governmemt support helps ensuring coordination• Donors must have sknowledge of the market• Donors should push for increased transparency• Donors should agree on a common reporting platform and core indicators• Donors should push private – public partnerships, although the “timings” are very

different• Donors have different selection processes which makes it difficult to coordinate

prior to the grant awards• Are the funding opportunities visible enough? Initiatives such as MFW4A• Can donors organise speed-dating for good projects that did not get funding?