International Solidarity For Development And Investment

sIDI is a limited company which was created in 1983 by the CCFD (Catholic Committee for Development and against Hunger) to extend and diversify her action in the economic field. SIDI has been active in the field of social finance since then.

sIDI is an organisation specialised in offering support, both financial and technical, to local financial institutions and organisations which give loans to micro enterprises and farmers. The goal is to develop and to promote long-term economical initiatives. In doing this, they want to contribute to a more socially based economy, important in the perspective of sustainable development.

the partners of SIDI are very diversified, both in perspective of their legal form or of their field of operation – local organisations, financial NGO’s, companies, micro-credit institutions, , financial cooperatives, ethical banks. They all respond to the financial needs of SME’s in developing countries, viable projects, but which have difficulties in obtaining loans, capital and guaranties by the commercial banks.