Professor Nicholas Biekpe introduces the Chartered Institute of Development Finance (CIDEF) and how since its inception in 2016 the CIDEF seeks to serve as a professional body for development finance professionals (02:07), how CIDEF’s academic council works directly with DFIs to create programmes that equip its members with relevant development finance material (08:43).
The importance of having local expertise trained and accredited on the continent to enable non-stock market entrepreneurs’ to access micro finance (15:00) and the role of DFIs in de-risking and providing low interest rate loans to support smallholder farmers (16:49) how CIDEFs short-courses on topics such as, micro-lending are helping to build capacity, positively impacting rural communities (19:25) the need for government initiatives and DFIs to create training resources to support Africans in utilising development finance (30:25).
