Last update : January 2007

Structure
Once a year, the KNFP organizes a General Meeting composed of nine delegates to decide on the organization policy. A Board of directors of five members watches over the practical realization of the decided policy. The daily management is carried out by the staff of a co-ordination office which is the executive part of the organization.

Activities
The KNFP mainly works in three fields:

1. the training of the main players in rural financing (members of field committees and professionals in decentralized financing) thanks to its mobile training institute (IMOFOR)
2. the defence and the promotion of rural financing
3. improvement of the financial services given in the country and particularly in the rural area, through the setting up of places of exchanges and reflection on the problems of rural financing.

The members
Network of institutions engaged in decentralized financing in the rural area, it was created by three important actors in the sector:

• COD-EMH: Co-ordination of development programs of the Methodist Church of Haiti,
• GRAIFSI: Group for the integration of the woman in the informal sector,
• KOFIP: Kolektif Finansman Popilè (collective for popular financing)

• ACLAM : Action against poverty,

• CRS : Catholic Relief Service,

• FONDESPOIR,

• FIDES- Haïti: International Fund for Economic and Social Development,

• FHAF: Haitian Fund of woman aid,

• FOBNO: Federation of Organizations of Low North West.

Affiliation

• KNFP is a founding member of Forolac FR (Latin-American and Caribbean Forum on rural finance),

• INAISE (International Association of Investors in the Social Economy),

• Co-ordination Europe-Haiti (CoE-H) : platform of Haitian and European NGO.

Impact
The KNFP contributed to the training of several actors involved in Haitian rural finance thank to its mobile training institute (IMOFOR). The majority of trained actors are involved in decentralized local structures. The KNFP carried out studies aiming at clarifying the situation of rural finance in Haiti. The more important are: the current situation and recent evolutions of rural finance in Haiti and the situation of the households in Lacoma (North West), Gros Morne (Artibonite) and Grand Rivière du Nord (North). The objective of these studies was to find indicators enabling a better follow-up of the households having used the finance tools set up by the members of KNFP so that they can improve their work and the work of KNFP and better serve rural households.