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The Partner Accompaniment Program provides professional assistance to advisors and employees in DID supported networks of savings and credit cooperatives. It provides them with help in tasks related mainly to inspection, audits, restating financial documents and internal controls. This program, which complements and anchors technical support activities undertaken by DID, is aimed primarily at recent retirees from the Desjardins Group. It enables these volunteer experts to transfer the expertise they have acquired during their career to DID partners.
The accompaniment is provided for a specific activity involving operations in a base organization within the network. It may involve implementing a new tool (an inspection program for example) or simply implementing already existing tools. Follow-up for computerization, team support for implementing new credit policies or follow-up to changes in an accounting system are other examples of intervention where the accompaniment program has proven its worth. It allows local staffmembers to receive accompaniment services on a daily basis from experienced specialists.
Mandates generally last from five to eight weeks and usually involve a team of two persons rather than a single individual. In the field the team members may however be assigned to different financial cooperatives according to partner needs and characteristics.
DID pays the expenses for these mandates.
Interested in a contract as a volunteer consultant?
Simply send your curriculum vitae to the Human Resources Branch at DID (rh@did.qc.ca) mentioning your interest in carrying out such a contract.
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Louisette Gaudreau in company of Rwandan women. |
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Pierre Biron, with Louis Bosco Randiamboloniaina, inspector-auditor with the Toamasina OTIV network (Tamatave) in Madagascar and Normand Brosseau, another volunteer coach |
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Louisette Gaudreau and Pierre Biron combine 48 years of experience in credit management. Louisette Gaudreau held several management positions with Québec financial institutions, while Pierre Biron was an inspector-auditor with the Desjardins Group. Today they are both volunteer coaches with DID partners.
In April 2006, they took part in a support mission for the AGASEKE Centre financier aux entrepreneurs (CFE) in Rwanda. This support was intended to solidify the knowledge that the CFE credit officers had acquired during training given them by a DID advisor at the beginning of the month. This reinforcement enables the credit officers to make optimal use of their recently acquired knowledge.
During her career, Louisette Gaudreau developed considerable skills in recovery, a key sector for the staff of the AGASEKE CFE, and she says she was enthusiastic at the idea of sharing her experience in this way. Pierre Biron, who has undertaken several coaching missions, considers that this type of intervention is very beneficial. “I believe that we can make a big difference by helping credit officers properly integrate the professionalism required to master the analysis of credit files and the loan authorization process. One thing is certain, our mandates are always appreciated and this is a great source of motivation for us.” |
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