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Timeline of activities 2016
- Crossing the 60,000 active clients mark
- Opening two branches in Halba and Jadra
- Establishing three new departments:
- Product Development
- Marketing and Customer Service
- Risk Management
- Launching new products:
- Refugee loan
- Group loan for Palestinians
- Individual loan for women without a guarantor
- Signing new partnership agreements with:
- Safadi Foundation
- UNDP
- UNIFIL
- UNFPA
- Dar Al Amal Association
- The Blessing Foundation
- UN Women
- Signing new loan agreements with:
- Planis Responsability
- Triple Jump
- CoopMed
- Whole Planet
- Habitat Microbuild
- Palestine Investment Fund
- Brand uplifting
- Organizing a series of events:
- Conference about the status of women entrepreneurship in Lebanon and the challenges of legal business registration
- Open day about access to finance for micro-entrepreneurs at the Chamber of Commerce in Bekaa
- Regional exchange of experience for women entrepreneurs in Egypt
- Networking events for female micro-entrepreneurs targeting male engagement
- Providing legal counseling to female micro entrepreneurs and supporting trade name registration at the Ministry of Economy
- Participating in the Citi Microentrepreneurship Awards where four of Al Majmoua’s clients won valuable prizes
Timeline of activities 2017
- Crossing the 70,000 active clients mark
- Opening a new branch in Koura
- Launching the Alternative Energy Loan
- Signing new partnership agreements with:
- UNICEF
- Cherie Blair 2 – WEE
- UNIDO
- UNFPA
- UNDP
- UN WOMEN
- ACTED
- Danish Refugee Council
- Right to Play
- IRC
- OXFAM
- AVSI
- Dar Al Amal Association
- Safadi Foundation
- COSV
- Fair Trade Lebanon
- Signing new loan agreements with:
- Whole Planet
- PIF
- Microbuild
- Triodos
- IFC
- Non-Financial Services activities:
- Legal counseling for 60 beneficiaries and trade name registration for two businesses
- Apprenticeship of 153 beneficiaries at the businesses of SMEs borrowers
- Networking opportunities for MENA women entrepreneurs in Barcelona-Spain
- Global Money week for 65 youth on financial education
- Provision of equipment for 79 women beneficiaries
- Testimonial of three women beneficiaries in "Enhancement of the Business Environment in the Southern Mediterranean" workshop
- Supplying 19 cooperatives with necessary productive inclusion for the development of a mobile app that targets the unbanked in Lebanon
- Developing Al Majmoua’s brand book that explains the brand’s identity and standards
- Participating in the CITI Microentrepreneurship Awards where four of Al Majmoua clients won valuable prizes
Timeline of activities 2018
- Crossing the 83,000 active clients mark
- Opening one branche in Douris
- Restructuring the VSE loan
- New partnerships signed 2018:
- International Finance Corporation
- COOPMED SA
- FMO
- Nederlandse Financierings-Maatschappij voor Ontwikkelingslanden N.V.
- Symbiotics S.A.
- SANAD
- SIDI
- solidarité internationale pour le développement et l'investissement
- Rockefeller
- Right to Play
- Cherie Blair
- USAID
- Palladium Group (Lebanon) S.a.r.l.
- Expertise France
- International Labor Organization
- ILO
- UNICEF
- Internation Rescue Committee IRC
- Terre Des Hommes TDH
- Non-Financial Services activities:
- Legal counseling for 41 beneficiaries
- Job placement for 223 youth beneficiaries (refugees and host community) in the Bekaa.
- 3 boot camps were organized in the Bekaa area (Baalbek and Arsal) for youth aged between 16 and 24. The topics discussed were: Drugs and personal protection, accepting others/Social integration, violence within the family and how to be protected.
- Closing ceremony and networking event for Right To Play beneficiaries in Mount Lebanon.
