Specialists from the Ministry of Financial system and Finance and the Ministry of Social Affairs and Microfinance assist deputies from the ninth legislature to acceptable the content material of the group invoice regarding microfinance.
A vector of economic and social inclusion, the microfinance sector, nevertheless, struggles to achieve its total potential. From the viability of decentralized monetary programs (SFD) to generally fragile governance, together with the insufficiency of geographic protection … The challenges are weighing. It’s on this context that the brand new uniform regulation adopted by the Council of Ministers of UEMOA, on December 21, 2023, intervened to strengthen the regulatory framework and modernize the governance of the sector. The adoption invoice in Benin is on the middle of an open workshop, Monday, April 28, 2025, on the No Stress Lodge in Grand-Popo.
“The challenges, implications, alternatives and obligations of the brand new uniform regulation” shall be uncovered to deputies within the Nationwide Meeting “for a harmonious transition to extra resilient and environment friendly microfinance”.
These three days of exchanges will even permit groups from the Ministry of Financial system and Finance and people of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Microfinance to “present all data and clarifications” on the teachings realized from the previous regulation nonetheless in power, in keeping with the Director Basic of the Nationwide Company for the Surveillance of Decentralized Monetary Techniques (ANSFD). Philippe Dahoui expressed, on the event, the enjoyment of the ANSFD to accompany the deputies of their quest for data.
Representing the president of the Nationwide Meeting, Gérard Gbénonchi, president of the finance and trade committee of the Nationwide Meeting, confused the significance of this workshop in a context of financial transformation. “It’s needed (…) that the regulation responds to the hope of our populations, that the regulation applies in social visions,” he mentioned. The workshop, continued the chairman of the finance and commerce committee, will permit deputies in addition to the assist employees of the commissions, to “higher perceive the inadequacies of the jurisdictional system and to evaluate the improvements launched by the brand new textual content”. Lastly, Gérard Gbénonchi needed “the exchanges to be frank, constructive and above all oriented in the direction of the overall curiosity”.
5 communications shall be offered on the impregnation workshop on the content material of the microfinance invoice within the Republic of Benin. These are: “Scenario on December 31, 2024 of the microfinance sector in Benin”; “The shortcomings of regulation n ° 2012-14 of March 21, 2012 regarding regulation of decentralized monetary programs within the Republic of Benin”; “Principal traces, points and implications of the brand new uniform regulation regulating microfinance”; “State of preparation for the compliance of decentralized monetary programs of Benin”; “Evaluate of the principle titles and chapters of the brand new uniform regulation”.
Marc menah
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April 29, 2025 by Marc Mensah
