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The Centre International de Développement et de Recherche (CIDR) is a french NGO created in 1961. It aims at promoting social and economic systems answering to the fundamental needs of human beings while at the same time remaining mindful of the common welfare. CIDR implements
development projects in four areas: Services Providers and Producers Organizations; Microfinance; Health systems and social insurance systems; Local Development and support to Decentralisation Processes. CIDR experience in the field of microfinance is to be found in the implementation of grassroots microfinance institutions, favouring economic and social development of underprivileged communities, in particular in rural areas and remote zones, making use of their potential for self-help.
CIDR microfinance projects have been implemented in a wide variety of Sub-Saharan Africa socioeconomic contexts: poor sahelian areas, Sudanese-sahelian areas, with mixed agricultural production (cash and food crops), irrigated rice-growing areas, with high economic potential, but poor social cohesion on account of the heterogeneous nature of the populations, forest areas, with cash crops (coffee, cocoa) where the populations are not well organized and social cohesion fragile. CIDR also works in some urban areas.

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