OVO Update meetings

OVO Update Meetings 2025: Strategic exercise

27/03/2025: OVO Update-meeting: This presentation provides an overview of the 2024 evolution of OVO’s loan portfolio. It highlights the number of loans granted, their distribution by country and sector, and the impact on African SMEs. It also briefly covers the coaching portfolio. A valuable snapshot for anyone involved in our work. PPT Presentation Loan Portfolio Statistics en Report Loan Portfolio Statistics.
27/02/2025: OVO Update meeting - PPT HR Governance & results of OVO volunteer survey November 2024.
21/11/2024: OVO Update meeting - feedback on output of HR Governance workshops.

22/04/2025: OVO Update meeting - Check out the presentation and the full report of our survey in Uganda, Benin, Rwanda, Senegal, and the DRC. They reveal the challenges entrepreneurs face — especially access to finance — and the opportunities to strengthen our support through more flexible funding, strong partnerships, and targeted business development.

Phase Oct - Jan 2024: 3 priority strategic projects defined:

Redesigning partnerships with Belgian NGOs
- Lead: Björn Macauter & Marc Despiegelaere
Exploring models for access to finance for African entrepreneurs
- Lead: Björn Macauter, Matyas Boyen & Jean Claude Delcroix
- 16/10/2024: Launch Project II - presentation including
  - Our track record in financing African SMEs.
  - Projects outside our regular operations where OVO has collaborated as either a lead or partner, with insights on 'access to finance' that can inform our future efforts

Lead: Karen Peersman, Anne-Lise Passelecq & Rita Bastiaenssen
Organisatie van 5 interactieve workshops (november 2024) voor input over volgende HR governance topics:
1. Efficient meetings and information/decision-making flow: team leader Stefanie Vanlerberghe
2. Conflicts of interest: team Leader Luc Bonte
3. Expertise and volunteer management: team leader: Karen Kammeraat
4. Diversity: team leader Veron Nsunda
5. Volunteer satisfaction & involvement, communication with volunteers: team leader Marina Cools
Online Q&A to present findings from these working groups to all volunteers
Survey to all volunteers on key topics
A policy plan was drafted a presented to the Board on 20/1 and approved

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