Oikocredit World Partnership Investments

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Oikocredit World Partnership Investments

Key features

  • Country of incorporation: Netherlands, The
  • Year founded: 1975
  • Legal Status: International Co-operative Society under Dutch law with excluded liability
  • Fund Assets: USD 304,242,000 ( as of 2005-12-31)
  • Fund Assets Allocated to MF Investments: USD 126,181,000 ( as of 2005-12-31)
  • Number of active MF investment: 219 ( as of 2005-12-31)
  • Area of Operation: World, East Asia and the Pacific, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Latin America and The Caribbean, South Asia
  • Participant(s)/Backer(s)/Investor(s): n/a

Brief Description

The Fund is offered by Oikocredit, a Dutch private ecumenical cooperative society founded in 1975, which operates as a development bank serving disadvantaged people in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe. Total assets amount to EUR 214 million. Investors include individuals, local church congregations, foundations, and institutions such as the Church of Sweden and the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), a US research group operating from Iowa State University. The Fund’s main focus is to distribute loans to small or medium-sized enterprises, fair trade organizations, and NGOs. The Fund also makes loans to MFIs. The Fund description posted on MIX states that Fund “promotes global justice by challenging people, churches and others to share their resources through socially responsible investments and by empowering disadvantaged people with credit.”


Contact Information

Tesselschadelaan 4, Amersfoort, 3818 WD, The Netherlands, 31 33 422 4040, info@oikocredit.org

Günter Jansen, Department of Credit Operations, 31 33 422 4040, gjansen@oikocredit.org

Link on MIX Market

http://www.mixmarket.org/en/supply/supply.show.profile.asp?token=&ett=10


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