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These are three small NGOs which, from Uvira to Fizi Centre, oversee a group of Mutuelles de Solidarité (MUSO), a SIDI community finance tool since the 2010s. Originally, these organizations supported agricultural producers and vulnerable populations, particularly women. The need for access to financial services and a form of solidarity-based insurance led these organizations to offer their initial beneficiaries a tool such as the Mutuelle de Solidarité.
Located in the south of the province of South Kivu, along the National Road, the urban centres of Makobola, Mbocko, Baraka and Fizi centre are the points of exchange between agricultural production and other manufactured products. Most of the population live on the shores of Lake Tanganyka, with few means of communication or infrastructure.
“Women and agricultural producers were the main beneficiaries of this MUSO activity, which should give these remote provinces a better grasp of cash management.
The opportunity provided by the MUSO structure also enables members to plan other (non-financial) activities together, such as fields farmed in the name of the MUSO, or even ideas for processing agricultural products”.
