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Développement international Desjardins (DID) is a component of the Desjardins Group of financial cooperatives. For over 39 years, the DID mission has been to support the creation and development of financial institutions that facilitate access to financial services for communities in developing countries. A number of these financial cooperatives take inspiration from the Desjardins model to plan their growth, computerization and product development.

Get together with your colleagues and teach them about DID, an example of the Desjardins Group’s cooperative difference in action!

How? Download the following audio and video clips and call a special meeting to present them to your colleagues.

Mexico

For the first time in her life, Teodora Pérez Hernández has access to financial services thanks to the SERFIR cooperative in Huasteca, set up in 2003 under a Mexican Government initiative with support from the Desjardins Group.

DID institutional videos:

Making financial services accessible

Ensuring better access to financial services constitutes, in the case of several developing countries, a major challenge. To succeed, the financial institutions must introduce innovative strategies that make it possible to reach groups that are usually marginalized. This video presents several of these strategies that have been integrated in Mexico, Mali and elsewhere to better serve the members and advise them as their needs change.

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Russia

For over 35 years, DID has been supporting the creation, development and strengthening of financial institutions in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe

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Serving Entrepreneurs

Around the world, entrepreneurs have a great economic impact in their communities. For this reason, DID suggests to its partners - financial institutions that facilitate access to financial services for communities in developing countries - that they specialize and professionalize the services offered to this clientele. This video shows the impact of introducing a financial centre for entrepreneurs (CFE), with DID support, on members, the financial institutions involved in the CFE and the community overall.

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Haïti

In Haiti, parents are often required to put off sending children to school since they do not have sufficient funds available when needed. To help overcome this problem, Haitian financial cooperatives now offer loans for schooling, an innovative financial product designed with DID collaboration.

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Educational Loan Program

In Haiti, families are able to send their children to school without going deeply into debt thanks to educational loans. This provides a source of hope helping parents feel positive about the future.

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Mexico

Using handheld computers with transaction software designed by the technological solutions team at DID, SERFIR financial cooperatives provide transaction services for savings and loans in remote rural communities.

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Computerization

In developing countries, a number of financial cooperatives supported by DID still perform operations manually. However, the volume of transactions has grown to the point that computerization has become a question of survival for them. Computerization makes it possible to increase the speed and reliability of operations. And modernizing the financial cooperative increases member confidence.

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Sri Lanka

Thanks to financial support from the Desjardins Group and technical assistance from DID experts, the SANASA network of financial cooperatives has been able to contribute to reconstruction efforts after the 2004 tsunami

DID institutional videos:

Partners and Teammates

«Big or small, all development projects depend on people.» Those are the first words of the latest DID institutional DVD entitled Partners and Teammates. Filmed in Mexico and Haiti, it emphasizes how truly important DID considers the relationships established with its partners.

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