Deputies within the workshop to impregnate the content material of the invoice adjusting microfinance in Benin with the AnsSFD in Grand-Popo
The method for the adoption of the invoice regulating microfinance in Benin is engaged. The venture, registered on the agenda of the primary abnormal (in progress) of the yr within the Nationwide Meeting, arouses the curiosity of deputies who want to grasp their contours. For this, they take part in a three-day workshop (from April 28 to 30, 2025) in Grand-Popo.
In accordance with the director common of Ansfd, Philippe Dahoui, throughout these three days, groups from the Ministry of Financial system and Finance and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Microfinance undertake to supply deputies and parliamentarians “all data and clarifications by communications”.
This data, he specifies, will permit contributors “to applicable the realized classes of the previous legislation (presently in power), but additionally to grasp the problems, implications, alternatives and obligations of the brand new uniform legislation for a harmonious transition to a extra resilient and environment friendly microfinance”.
Household photograph of the contributors within the opening ceremony of the content material workshop for the content material of the invoice adjusting microfinance in Benin by the deputies and help workers of Parliament, this Monday, April 28, 2025 in Grand-Popo
He indicated {that a} good understanding of the challenges of this new legislation is important, as a result of in the present day, this sector faces main challenges akin to “the viability of establishments, monetary innovation, the nation’s geographic protection, the safety of consumers and savers”.
Because of this, says Philippe Dahoui, the brand new uniform microfinance legislation, adopted on December 21, 2023 by the Council of UEMOA Ministers, goals to strengthen the regulatory framework and to make sure higher governance of microfinance establishments.
In his opening speech, Gérard Gbénonchi, consultant of the president of the Nationwide Meeting, burdened that “microfinance, previously a easy proximity software, has turn into a strategic lever for growth”. However to be efficient, it should be based mostly on a stable, trendy and protecting authorized base.
“The legislation in power in our nation since 2012 has made it doable to manage the actions of this sector and the outcomes are very complimentary,” mentioned the president of the finance and trade committee of the Nationwide Meeting. However, provides Gérard Gbénonchi, to the take a look at of time, “new financial realities have emerged and a few inadequacies had been famous within the utility of this legislation”. This led the federal government to provoke a brand new essential invoice regulating microfinance within the Republic of Benin.
This workshop, he specifies, goals to tell deputies extra extensively in addition to the help workers of the commissions seized of this invoice, on the weaknesses of the legislation in power in its utility. It would additionally permit contributors to take care of the challenges and challenges of resilience, monetary exclusion and financing of financial savings.
Throughout the works, the contributors will probably be entitled to the presentation of the invoice with the intention to analyze the influence of reforms on the lifetime of the populations. He formulated the want that the exchanges be “frank, constructive and above all oriented in direction of the final curiosity”.
