A strategic partner

    
I&P's aim is to be a strategic partner for all participants in the microfinance sector:

For the MFIs:

I&P's core mission is to become a strategic partner. Whatever the legal status of the MFI, I&P offers a relationship of global long-term partnership, including:

• provision of equity or quasi-equity capital
• strategic guidance
• reinforcement of its capacity to organise and structure its finances, thus enabling it to manage its growth

I&P's approach to MFI management teams is educational and respectful, in keeping with a relation of mutual confidence, and a long-term commitment.


For the operators:

I&P's approach and skill sets perfectly complement those of the microfinance operators. It is not I&P's vocation to provide technical assistance services. On the other hand I&P reinforces and completes the action of an MFI's founding operators through its contribution to governance, its financial and strategic approach and its mentoring of management. In all cases, I&P seeks an association with the operator of the projects in which it invests.

For the public sector lenders:

Faced with the immensity of needs to be satisfied, the public sector lenders are today anxious to limit the amount and term of their exposure to MFIs. To ensure the growth and survival of MFIs it is important to prepare a rapid hand-on of equity provision, strategic assistance and help with corporate governance issues. This will permit to continue to reinforce the professionalism of these institutions and the confidence of their financial environment. Without this follow-on MFIs often risk stagnation and failure.
I&P is convinced that a private, professional, business-based approach can effectively ensure this follow-on while respecting the mission and specific character of MFIs.