Cooperation for Inclusive Affordable Personal Credit (2012-2013)
CAPIC is a new program recently launched by EFIN (the European Financial Inclusion Network) with support from the European Community Program for Employment and Social Solidarity.
Objectives:
In many EU countries the market fails to provide adequate affordable personal credit to low-income people, who thus face a lack of service (where no sub-prime market exists) or an inappropriate supply (sub-prime credit with high costs and bad terms and conditions).
The action, to illustrate and promote successful cooperation between social enterprise, public authority and profit-making company, in providing affordable personal credit, will:
Analyse 4 initiatives developed in 4 different EU countries, with diverse economical, political, legal contexts (3 active partnerships and 1 studied by the coordinator);
Foster knowledge and best practices exchanges between selected stakeholders on specific personal affordable credit topics, via 3 thematic workshops held in 3 different countries;
Develop a training module aimed at potential interested stakeholders based on the 4 case-studies' analysis and the experience exchanges;
Elaborate a video which highlights the various stakeholders and beneficiaries’ point of view;
Implement a training seminar in 5 European countries where effective potential stakeholders have been identified to develop affordable personal credit;
Disseminate results through a wide but targeted contact database in the EU via 2 existing websites and newsletters from 2 EU networks dedicated to financial inclusion.
The dissemination training phase of the CAPIC programme is now finished: five training seminars were organized in different European countries. >>>>>Access dissemination material here.