What we do at Demis Consults Ltd

Over the years, DEMIS Consults has provided training and consultancy programs in the East African region in microfinance. DEMIS has supported Financial Institutions in Uganda, Rwanda, Congo and South Sudan through training and technical assistance. DEMIS has been engaged by major microfinance development partners such as Oiko Credit, Stromme Foundation, Microfinance Support Centre Ltd (MSC), AMFIU, ABi Trust and others to offer training and technical support for various financial institutions.

We promote access to appropriate financial services by all categories through training and consultancy services that are tailored to providing solutions in enhancing capacity in the microfinance sector and business related services to organizations. For 15 years, DEMIS Consults has provided technical support to MFIs, SACCOs, SMEs and other financial institutions in particular, TNA (Training needs assessment), development of Credit Management training materials, Product Development, Business development services and conducting actual trainings among others.
We endeavor to explore and understand our clients' business strategy and vision to enable us provide customized solutions.

Some of our key clients in the Microfinance Industry.

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DEMIS Training Services

We have a rich training curriculum that can be tailored to suit the needs of the specific clients. This combined with the skills and experience of the staff plus their result-oriented approach gives DEMIS an edge over its competitors.

The main features of DEMIS' courses are that:
Our trainings will include;
  • Microfinance Sound Practices: targets Loans officers and managers and the main purpose of the course is to impart a clear understanding of the Microfinance industry.
  • Loan appraisal: Designed for Credit staff, Managers, Accountants, and financial extension workers. Participants gain information and skills to make the best credit decision.
  • Delinquency Management: Targets senior management, Credit staff, Accountants in MFIs, Private and NGOs. The purpose is to impart the knowledge and skills to cure loan delinquency. The course enables participants to acquire knowledge and skills to identify causes of delinquency and design solutions for them.
  • Loan Tracking and Monitoring: The Course targets Credit Officers, Managers, and Leaders of FCBOs, Financial extension workers. The purpose is to help participants appreciate the relevance of developing and establishing systems to guide their loan disbursement and recovery processes.
  • Risk Management: is designed to improve capacity of management and staff of MFIs, private and public organizations to effectively manage and prevent risk occurrences.
  • Accounting for Microfinance Institutions: targets managers, supervisors, financial managers, Accountants, Financial extension workers. The training imparts skills and knowledge to generate information for financial decision-making in a microfinance context.
  • Financial Analysis and PMT for Microfinance Institutions: includes Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, Credit staff, Accountants and Financial Extension Workers. The objective is for participants to acquire skills and knowledge to generate financial indicators, analyze and interpret financial reports and generate financial performance reports for appropriate control decision-making for MFIs.
  • Training of Trainers (TOT): This course is meant for senior managers, Loans/Credit officers, training managers, supervisors, Leaders in Financial community-based organizations, and Financial Extension Workers. The purpose is to equip participants with skills and methods of knowledge transfer.
Our trainings will include;
  • Accounting and Budgeting: includes Managers, supervisors, financial managers, Accountants, Financial extension workers. Participants acquire skills to identify trading transactions, capture accounting data, record it and process it into information for decision making and disseminate it to the decision makers.
  • Auditing and Internal Control: targets Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, Credit staff, Accountants and Financial Extension Workers, supervisory committee members. Provide skills and knowledge of assessing accounts to provide assurance as to whether it is a true and fair statement of the financial affairs of the organization and point out areas of internal control improvement.
  • Financial Analysis and Monitoring: targets Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, Credit staff, Accountants and Financial Extension Workers. The purpose is to equip participants with the necessary skills, knowledge and guideline to provide information for control decision making in trading institutions.
  • Financial Management: includes Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, operations managers, accountants and financial extension workers. It aims at imparting skills and knowledge to generate information to aid raising and controlling use of resources.
  • Investment and Financing: Targets Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, operations managers, accountants and financial extension workers. The purpose is to impart skills and knowledge to assess capital requirements, investment opportunities, sources and methods of raising capital.
  • Human Resource Management: This training targets Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, operations managers, accountants and financial extension workers. The purpose is to acquire knowledge and skills to maintain, utilize and assess productivity of the human resource efficiently and effectively.
  • Strategic and Business Planning: Targets Senior Managers, administrators, financial controllers, operations managers, accountants and financial extension workers. The aim is to develop tools to aid in management control.
  • Customer Care: focuses on senior and middle level managers, credit officers, Administrators, leaders of financial community based organisations, financial extension workers and front desk officers in MFIs, NGOs, and Banks. It aids in managing customer satisfaction. It helps in articulating the importance of customers to the business of the organization
  • Marketing: targets Senior and middle level managers, credit officers, sales staff, Administrators, leaders of financial community based organisations, financial extension workers and front desk officers in MFIs, NGOs, and Banks. The purpose is to impart skills and knowledge to generate information regarding organization products and services.
  • Management Information Systems: Focuses on Managers, credit officers, supervisors, in MFIs, private and NGOs, sectors. It aims at imparting skills and knowledge to generate and disseminate information to aid in directing and controlling the organization.
Our trainings will include;
  • Group Development and Management: targets leaders and members of financial community based Organisations, Credit officers/Marketing officers and Field workers in MFIs Cooperatives, Financial extension workers and NGOs. Participants will acquire knowledge and skills to conceptualize the use of groups as a strategy for community participation and empowerment.
  • Resource Mobilization: focuses on senior managers, Credit officers, Development workers in MFIs, Private sector (including NGOs). Participants will acquire knowledge and skills for resource raising and utilization.
  • Informal Savings and Credit Management: Targets senior managers, Credit officers, Development workers in MFIs, Private sector (including NGOs). Imparts knowledge and skills for saving, borrowing and lending.
  • Producer Groups Collective Marketing: involves Leaders and members of community based organisations, Credit officers/ Marketing officers and Field workers in Cooperatives, Financial extension workers and NGOs. It helps to acquire knowledge and skills to bulk produce, look for market and benefit from economies of scale marketing.
  • Entrepreneurship & Business Development: includes businesspersons, Field officers of MFIs and NGOs in charge of Business development, Leaders of groups/ Associations and their members. Participants acquire knowledge and skills for identifying, starting, managing and expanding a business.
  • Management of Small Organizations: targets small and medium scale entrepreneurs, project managers, Businesspersons, leaders of community-based organizations/groups and financial extension workers. Participants can discuss the business environment, acquire skills and knowledge in resource mobilization and management of SMEs.

DEMIS Consultancy Services

Project Management

We have extensive experience in the integrated management of discrete areas of project management. We have specialists in evaluating and monitoring programmes and projects using widely verified methodologies that are employed by the main international donors focusing on relevance, efficacy, efficiency, sustainability and impact.

  • Baseline formulation and feasibility studies
  • Intermediate evaluation and Final evaluation
  • Evaluation surveys (Mid-term and end-term evaluations)
  • Project monitoring and follow-up

Value Chain Development

We provide technical assistance to institutions in integrating value chain development in agriculture financed programmes through capacity building in value chain related areas such as understanding the concept of Value chains, networking and partnership, Value Chain analysis, Value chain competitiveness, Group development and management, entrepreneurship & business development, resource mobilization, Informal savings and credit management, Producer groups collective marketing and Producer group federation.

Research and Development

We Collect internal and external market and other field related information to inform product and market strategy development, policy formulation and reviews for Community Based Organisations (CBOs), Financial Community Based Organisations (FCBOs), Non Governmental Organisations (NGOs), Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs), Microfinance Institutions limited by shares (MFIs), Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Financial institutions (FIs), business companies, Government ministries and projects.

Entrepreneurship Development

DEMIS realizes that establishing and maintaining one's own business requires an attitude, which includes amongst others the courage and ability to take calculated risks, a sense for market development and marketing and self-confidence and the willingness to work hard. DEMIS Consults Ltd therefore uses these to develop the entrepreneurship skills all aimed at poverty eradication starting from the household levels.

Product/ Market Development.

DEMIS specialises in developing and reviewing financial products for financial institutions especially Microfinance promotion and development in Uganda. Designing and implementing viable financial services and credit programmes are important elements of all our activities. DEMIS has carried out product development for MFIs and SACCOs like; HOFOKAM, KAGANDO Microfinance Company, ISSIA SACCO, BUKINDA SACCO, ORIBCING SACCO, BULULU SACCO, KALCAD, RUSCA and KARUSCA.

Business Development

DEMIS Consults' primary focus is to enhance poor enterprises' access to capacity development support in order to facilitate sustainable economic growth of small and medium enterprises, and all other institutions like CBOs, NGOs, financial institutions and government agencies.
We offer the following business services:

  • Business Clinics
  • Development and review of Business Plans

Trainings and Consultancy

For 15 years, DEMIS Consults has provided technical support to MFIs, SACCOs, SMEs and other financial institutions in particular, TNA (Training needs assessment), development of Credit Management training materials, Product Development, Business development services and conducting actual trainings among others.

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