Guide to Management Information Systems for Microfinance Institutions in Mali

This guide, in Spanish, is a component of the USAID funded Computerized MIS for Microfinance program in Mali. This program is designed to strengthen Mali's Microfinance Institutions with the use of effective:

• Automated accounting;
• Loan portfolio;
• Deposit management;
• Overall management information systems (MIS).

This segment of the program:

• Determined the MIS requirements for the different types and sizes of Systeme Financier Decentralise (SFDs) operating in Mali and collected data to evaluate computer systems being used by some of these SFDs;
• The data collected was analyzed into this guide for use of the different categories of SFDs in selecting the most appropriate microfinance software for their MIS.

The authors point out that the guide is part of an ongoing process as automated MF MIS systems evolve in Mali, and therefore serves as a framework that may be added to and refined as:

• Additional systems are introduced and reviewed;
• Additional needs are identified;
• Existing systems are upgraded or reevaluated.