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CERISE (Comité dEchange, de Réflexion et dInformation sur les Systèmes dEpargne-crédit) is a network of networks. It groups 4 french microfinance support organizations : IRAM (Institut de Recherches et dApplications des Méthodes de développement, Paris), CIDR (Centre International de Développement et de Recherche, Autrêches), GRET (Groupe de Recherche et dEchanges Technologiques, Paris) and CIRAD (Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement, Montpellier).

Each CERISE member is part of an extensive network of microfinance practitioners and MFIs in countries of the South (West Africa, East Africa, Madagascar, Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, Brazil, etc.). CERISE was started in 1998.

The objectives of CERISE are to capitalize and share information on microfinance experiences in order to improve the practices in this sector : exchanges with MFI practitioners, training, support to donors for microfinance policies, etc. The main themes of capitalization, defined by the members, are the following : financing of household agriculture, governance in microfinance, impact and social performances, intervention in micro finance, MFIs in remote rural areas, diagnosis of MFI in West Africa. A process of a peer review is engaged among the members in order for each of them to define their mid-term strategy regarding intervention in micro finance sector.

CERISE produces synthesis and publications, participates in trainings, organizes meetings and seminars to exchange information with the practitioners, the researchers, the MFIs, the donors, etc.





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