A joint expert panel of the project partners has now approved a special three-day training course for honorary officials of the credit cooperatives. This is the first time that customized fundamental knowledge of the functioning of financial institutions and in particular of the savings and credit cooperatives is provided to the honorary supervisory boards in Ghana, the members of the so-called “Loan Committees”. The training caters to the fact that the supervisory board members are well respected within their groups, but in most of the cases they are neither financial experts nor business people. On the contrary, they are often senior church members or experienced company workers.
For the first time ever, the formerly applied method of imparting knowledge from the outgoing supervisory board member to his or her successor through "Chinese whispers" can now be substituted by a formalized, but nevertheless target-group-oriented and sensibly priced knowledge transfer system.
<link en projects projekt sparkassenpartnerschaftsprojekt-mit-der-ghana-co-operative-credit-unions-association-cua-aufba stand aktuell.html _blank intern>Project description Ghana: Savings banks partnership project with the Ghana Cooperative Credit Unions Association (CUA) – Set-up of an academy
The project is funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).
Contact partners:
Mr. Stefan Henkelmann / Mrs. Christina Heuft
Sparkassenstiftung für internationale Kooperation
Simrockstraße 4
53113 Bonn, Germany
Phone: +49 228 9703-625/ -618
Fax: +49 228 9703-613