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CEO’s Forum: Lessons From The Far East T he CEOs Forum for SADC DFIs was held in the picturesque tourist town of Kasane in Northern Botswana, on the border with Zambia, Namibia and Zimbabwe. The Forum focused on the theme „Development Finance – Lessons from Asia in which speakers elucidated the role that Development Finance […]

UNISA School of Business Head visits The Acting Executive Director of UNISA’s Graduate School of Business Leadership, Professor Valiant Clapper visited the SADC Development Finance Resource Centre to acquaint himself with the activities of the DFRC and discuss opportunities for collaboration on 14th March 2012. Professor Klapper, who was accompanied by SBL International Manager, Mr. […]

SME Mentoring Programme launched in Botswana The SADC-DFRC in collaboration with the local DFIs in Botswana – National Development Bank, Citizen Entrepreneurial Development Agency, Local Enterprise Authority, Botswana Development Corporation, Botswana Housing Corporation and Botswana Savings Bank – and a partner organization, the Botswana National Productivity Centre, launched the Journey to Excellence SMME Mentoring Programme […]

DEVELOPMENT BANK OF MAURITIUS HOSTS SADC DEVELOPMENT FINANCE INSTITUTIONS BIANNUAL MEETING AND CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICERS ROUNDTABLE The SADC DFI Subcommittee and the SADC-DFRC held their bi-annual meeting at the Labourdonnais Water Front Hotel in Port Louis, Mauritius on 30th April 2008. The Subcommittee Meeting was officially opened by the Honourable Rama Khrishna Sithanen, Deputy Prime […]

Stuart Kufeni is New CEO of DFRC The DFRC Board of Trustees has appointed Mr Stuart Kufeni as Chief Executive Officer for the SADC­DFRC with effect from 1 st November 2007. Mr Kufeni replaces Dr Rosalind H Thomas who resigned from the DFRC on May 31 st, 2007. He previously held the position of Programme […]

The SADC-DFRC Board of Trustees hosted a farewell cocktail in honour of Dr Rosalind H Thomas, CEO for SADC-DFRC on the 30th March 2007 at the Gaborone International Convention Centre. The Vice Chair of the Board, Mr Oaitse Ramasedi and the Chair of the DFI Subcommittee, Mr David Nuyoma in their speeches at the occasion […]

DFRC LAUNCHES THE SADC SME MENTORSHIP PROGRAMME The DFRC in partnership with SAFRI HRD Project of Germany completed the development of the SME Mentorship model titled “The Journey to Excellence (J2Ex)”, with the Pilot project being launched at BEDCO (Lesotho) in October 2006. The model was developed to enable management teams and entrepreneurs to self-assess […]

The second module of the 2006 Programme on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis(PIARA) was held from 4th – 15th September 2006 at Eskom Leadership Development Centre in Midrand, South Africa. This programme extends the financial analysis in Module I to cover economic and social considerations, as well as stakeholder analysis. Except for two, all participants […]

The SADC-Development Finance Resource Centre (DFRC) represented by its CEO, Dr. Rosalind H. Thomas, and the NORSAD Agency represented by its CEO, Mr. Ole Simony, on 23rd March 2006 and on the occasion of the Board of Governors Meeting of NORSAD, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to establish a partnership to address private sector […]

Welcome to the first edition of the SADC-DFRC Newsletter Following the establishment of the SADC-Development Finance Resource Centre (DFRC) as the secretariat and hub of the SADC Development Finance Institutions Network (DFI), it has become necessary for us to establish a mechanism for communication and exchange of information amongst the member DFIs and the SADC-DFRC. […]