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#657 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Wed Jul 1, 2009 10:12 am
Subject: FW: First Consumer protection Campaign Tools Available
lindamayoux
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From: Robin Ratcliffe, Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance [mailto:center@...]
Sent: 30 June 2009 18:29
To: Linda
Subject: First Campaign Tools Available

 

                           

News from the Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance

New Tools Help MFIs Assess Client Protection Practices
The Campaign for Client Protection is excited to announce the beta release of two new assessment tools for microfinance institutions. The goal for each is to help MFI staff gain a better understanding of how well their organizations are implementing client protection practices as well as identify areas needing improvement

Give us your valuable feedback on the tools! - The Client Protection Questionnaire and Self Assessment Guide were developed by the Center for Financial Inclusion’s Beyond Codes action research project. Both tools are still in draft form. We invite you to become a beta tester. For more information on the tools or how you can be involved, contact Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance Director Robin Ratcliffe.


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Close to 600 MFI’s, networks, donors, and individuals have endorsed the Campaign and the Six Principles of Client Protection. Latest endorsers include:

  • Finamérica, Colombia
  • Ameen, Lebanon
  • Aqroinvest Credit Union, Azerbaijan

For a complete list of endorsers, please visit the Campaign website.

 

We always welcome your comments and questions.
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#658 From: vikash kumar <microfinancexpose@...>
Date: Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:30 am
Subject: Mentor of Indian Microfinance, Sitaram Rao passes away
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Mentor of Indian Microfinance, Sitaram Rao passes away

MF Focus, July 11, 2009: Sitaram Rao, one of the pillars of India’s microfinance movement and former CEO of SKS Microfinance, passed away on Friday  after suffering a heart attack, according to doctors at Poulomi Hospital in Hyderabad, informed his family members.
He was hospitalized following an accident with a fractured left arm three days ago and was undergoing treatment for high BP and sugar levels. It was around 8:30 pm in the evening on Friday that he collapsed  and efforts by doctors to revive him failed, said his sister Indira V. Rao.
A trained chartered accountant, he had held several senior advisory positions with finance, microfinance and international marketing companies including Equitas, the DCL Group (India), Muscat Finance Company (Sultanate of Oman), Laila Group (India), and Paradigm InfoTech (USA). He had also served as a visiting faculty member at Management Development Institute (Delhi), Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Computer Maintenance Corporation, and the State Bank of India.

He firmly believed that one of the effective ways to enhance the effectiveness of microfinance is to focus on value addition for microfinance borrowers through health, education and other services.
He was a strong force behind of SKS’s evolution. Dr. Vikram Akula, Chairman of SKS Microfinance, once said: “I am thankful to Sitaram Rao, my friend and guide, who has been with us throughout our journey. Without his support, SKS could not have established its strong presence in the sector.” SKS grew five times under his mentorship and expanded from Andhra Pradesh to Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

On hearing Sitaram Rao’s sudden demise, Grameen Koota MD Suresh K. Krishna, has expressed his deep grief and shock. “We have lost our mentor and our guide,” he said. Sitaram Rao was committed to the values and principles of microfinance and worked to promote the movement until the last minute.

Malcolm Harper, renowned author and microfinance consultant, was taken by surprise when the news reached him. “Indeed, very sad news.  Certainly he is someone who was always full of ideas.  A great loss,” he told MF Focus.

Sitaram Rao will be remembered for his great contribution to microfinance, being a guiding and motivational person for many young leaders of microfinance in India.

Read the full news: http://www.microfinancefocus.com/news/?p=167

NA : If you wish to express your sympathy to the family of Sitaram Rao and the community of microfinance sector in India, you can pass your condolence note to us at news@...  with your full name, email id, organization and address.



#659 From: Namrata Sharma <namrata1964@...>
Date: Sun Jul 12, 2009 2:09 am
Subject: Re: Mentor of Indian Microfinance, Sitaram Rao passes away
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This is indeed a very sad news. Sitaram has been a very good friend of mine i wish his soul rests in peace. I feel shocked with the news.
 
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From: vikash kumar <microfinancexpose@...>
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:15:41 PM
Subject: [genfinance] Mentor of Indian Microfinance, Sitaram Rao passes away

Mentor of Indian Microfinance, Sitaram Rao passes away

MF Focus, July 11, 2009: Sitaram Rao, one of the pillars of India’s microfinance movement and former CEO of SKS Microfinance, passed away on Friday  after suffering a heart attack, according to doctors at Poulomi Hospital in Hyderabad, informed his family members.
He was hospitalized following an accident with a fractured left arm three days ago and was undergoing treatment for high BP and sugar levels. It was around 8:30 pm in the evening on Friday that he collapsed  and efforts by doctors to revive him failed, said his sister Indira V. Rao.
A trained chartered accountant, he had held several senior advisory positions with finance, microfinance and international marketing companies including Equitas, the DCL Group (India), Muscat Finance Company (Sultanate of Oman), Laila Group (India), and Paradigm InfoTech (USA). He had also served as a visiting faculty member at Management Development Institute (Delhi), Industrial Finance Corporation of India, Computer Maintenance Corporation, and the State Bank of India.

He firmly believed that one of the effective ways to enhance the effectiveness of microfinance is to focus on value addition for microfinance borrowers through health, education and other services.
He was a strong force behind of SKS’s evolution. Dr. Vikram Akula, Chairman of SKS Microfinance, once said: “I am thankful to Sitaram Rao, my friend and guide, who has been with us throughout our journey. Without his support, SKS could not have established its strong presence in the sector.” SKS grew five times under his mentorship and expanded from Andhra Pradesh to Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Madhya Pradesh.

On hearing Sitaram Rao’s sudden demise, Grameen Koota MD Suresh K. Krishna, has expressed his deep grief and shock. “We have lost our mentor and our guide,” he said. Sitaram Rao was committed to the values and principles of microfinance and worked to promote the movement until the last minute.

Malcolm Harper, renowned author and microfinance consultant, was taken by surprise when the news reached him. “Indeed, very sad news.  Certainly he is someone who was always full of ideas.  A great loss,” he told MF Focus.

Sitaram Rao will be remembered for his great contribution to microfinance, being a guiding and motivational person for many young leaders of microfinance in India.

Read the full news: http://www.microfin ancefocus. com/news/ ?p=167

NA : If you wish to express your sympathy to the family of Sitaram Rao and the community of microfinance sector in India, you can pass your condolence note to us at news@microfinancefo cus.com  with your full name, email id, organization and address.




#660 From: Salma Amir <salma_smfn@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:24 pm
Subject: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"
salma_smfn
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Dear All,

I would highly appreciate if some one help me in identifying Professors/ Universities in UK who can supervise my PhD thesis on " Micro Finance and women Empowerment".

I will contact them if all of you who are currently studying or teaching at UK universities identify them.

Thanking you in advance

Best Regards

Salma Amir
Pakistan




#661 From: "dyamyia" <dyamyia@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:27 pm
Subject: Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"
dyamyia
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--- In genfinance@yahoogroups.com, Salma Amir <salma_smfn@...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would highly appreciate if some one help me in identifying Professors/
Universities in UK who can supervise my PhD thesis on " Micro Finance and women
Empowerment".
>
> I will contact them if all of you who are currently studying or teaching at UK
universities identify them.
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Best Regards
>
> Salma Amir
> Pakistan

Hi Salma,
Are you kidding me, if you are a member of this forum you should know by now
that one of the most authoritative voices on Microfinance and women's
Empowerment is Linda Mayoux, check her many seminal works on empowerment and you
will know what i mean.If you are not able to get her, because I understand she
is a very busy lady(Check her website: lindaswebs for her contact details), you
should try Naila Kabeer i think she is still at Sussex Univ. I like her work on
the subject too. Check her work on SEDP:Money can't buy me love? just google it
and also take a tour of LINDASWEBS and i am sure you will get a pretty good
picture of who these fine brains are! Anyway, i hope you find this useful. Good
luck. Fuseini

#662 From: "dyamyia" <dyamyia@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 1:52 pm
Subject: What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
dyamyia
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I am exploring how women's networks in group-based Microlending programs are
used by women and or enhanced by MFIs for the purposes of their(Women's)
individual and or collective poverty alleviation, empowerment and health. Has
anybody explored this before and what did they find?
In the microcredit literature, it is apparent that whiles women's
networks(social capital) are appropriated by MFIs for loan repayments, peer
monitoring and self-selection of creditworthy borrowers etc, very little is done
to by the MFIs to utilize this resource(social capital) for the furtherance of
the larger obejectives of empowerment, poverty and health. I argue that by
ingoring this potential and actual resource(in some instances) the impacts of
MFIs and or credit in many impact assessments either underestimate or
overestimate depending on whether women's networks are fostered or destroyed
through the pressures of loan repayments and or the design of the project
itself.
I will be grateful if others can provide their views on this. I will also be
grateful if you can point to relevant literature on this or any related
articles.
Regards,
Fuseini, UK

#663 From: Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 2:07 pm
Subject: Re: What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
tanyahenders...
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Good Morning!

Today I leave for Jimma, Ethiopia to begin a study entitled "The Status of Health and Microfinance in Jimma: Searching for a Meaningful Correlation, Is There Any" through the medical school at Jimma University. Our intent is to determine whether women involved in microfinance are empowered to and have greater access to better health (health as a poverty indicator) for themselves and their families. I look forward to shared discussion as the project unfolds. 

I must be off to catch my flight, but look forward to remaining in contact.

Be well!
T. Henderson, USA 

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, dyamyia <dyamyia@...> wrote:

From: dyamyia <dyamyia@...>
Subject: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:52 AM

I am exploring how women's networks in group-based Microlending programs are used by women and or enhanced by MFIs for the purposes of their(Women' s) individual and or collective poverty alleviation, empowerment and health. Has anybody explored this before and what did they find?
In the microcredit literature, it is apparent that whiles women's networks(social capital) are appropriated by MFIs for loan repayments, peer monitoring and self-selection of creditworthy borrowers etc, very little is done to by the MFIs to utilize this resource(social capital) for the furtherance of the larger obejectives of empowerment, poverty and health. I argue that by ingoring this potential and actual resource(in some instances) the impacts of MFIs and or credit in many impact assessments either underestimate or overestimate depending on whether women's networks are fostered or destroyed through the pressures of loan repayments and or the design of the project itself.
I will be grateful if others can provide their views on this. I will also be grateful if you can point to relevant literature on this or any related articles.
Regards,
Fuseini, UK



#664 From: Salma Amir <salma_smfn@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 4:36 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"
salma_smfn
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Dear Fusein,

I know both Linda Mayoux and Naila Kabeer, and I met both of them as well. I am also sending the proposal to them to sussex and cambridge. Besides that I am also looking for more names and universities to contact them if these ladies refuse due to their busy schedule or if I dont get admission (either case)

Thanks any ways for your reply

Salma


From: dyamyia <dyamyia@...>
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:27:16 PM
Subject: [genfinance] Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"

--- In genfinance@yahoogro ups.com, Salma Amir <salma_smfn@ ...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would highly appreciate if some one help me in identifying Professors/ Universities in UK who can supervise my PhD thesis on " Micro Finance and women Empowerment" .
>
> I will contact them if all of you who are currently studying or teaching at UK universities identify them.
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Best Regards
>
> Salma Amir
> Pakistan

Hi Salma,
Are you kidding me, if you are a member of this forum you should know by now that one of the most authoritative voices on Microfinance and women's Empowerment is Linda Mayoux, check her many seminal works on empowerment and you will know what i mean.If you are not able to get her, because I understand she is a very busy lady(Check her website: lindaswebs for her contact details), you should try Naila Kabeer i think she is still at Sussex Univ. I like her work on the subject too. Check her work on SEDP:Money can't buy me love? just google it and also take a tour of LINDASWEBS and i am sure you will get a pretty good picture of who these fine brains are! Anyway, i hope you find this useful. Good luck. Fuseini



#665 From: Mr Fuseini Yamyia Dawuda <dyamyia@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:14 pm
Subject: Re: Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"
dyamyia
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You can also try Katie Wright. I think she is in either Sussex or Manchester University. Again, if you google it, you will get her email address to contact her. I will check and get you some names as well. Good luck.

--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Salma Amir <salma_smfn@...> wrote:

From: Salma Amir <salma_smfn@...>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 5:36 PM

Dear Fusein,

I know both Linda Mayoux and Naila Kabeer, and I met both of them as well. I am also sending the proposal to them to sussex and cambridge. Besides that I am also looking for more names and universities to contact them if these ladies refuse due to their busy schedule or if I dont get admission (either case)

Thanks any ways for your reply

Salma


From: dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com>
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 6:27:16 PM
Subject: [genfinance] Re: Supervisor for PhD on "Microfinance and Women Empowerment"

--- In genfinance@yahoogro ups.com, Salma Amir <salma_smfn@ ...> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I would highly appreciate if some one help me in identifying Professors/ Universities in UK who can supervise my PhD thesis on " Micro Finance and women Empowerment" .
>
> I will contact them if all of you who are currently studying or teaching at UK universities identify them.
>
> Thanking you in advance
>
> Best Regards
>
> Salma Amir
> Pakistan

Hi Salma,
Are you kidding me, if you are a member of this forum you should know by now that one of the most authoritative voices on Microfinance and women's Empowerment is Linda Mayoux, check her many seminal works on empowerment and you will know what i mean.If you are not able to get her, because I understand she is a very busy lady(Check her website: lindaswebs for her contact details), you should try Naila Kabeer i think she is still at Sussex Univ. I like her work on the subject too. Check her work on SEDP:Money can't buy me love? just google it and also take a tour of LINDASWEBS and i am sure you will get a pretty good picture of who these fine brains are! Anyway, i hope you find this useful. Good luck. Fuseini



#666 From: Mr Fuseini Yamyia Dawuda <dyamyia@...>
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:31 pm
Subject: Re: What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
dyamyia
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Hi,
Tanya, I wish you a safe journey and a successful research. I am sure you will have fun and as well as find interesting correlates! My own research in Ghana among women micro credit beneficiaries indicate a strong correlation between access to credit and women's increased ability to not only decide the choice of care(ie, folk or orthodox) but also increased ability to pay for it. Apart from the obvious channels of increased consumption, i looked at issues of happiness, domestic violence, workload and women's sense of worth as proxies of health(ala Tipping, 1997).
I realised that women's increased ability to support each other (mutual support and reciprocity) through their networks(eg microcredit groups) in times of ill health and other shocks in life such as bereavement, naming ceremonies provide added security and a sense of control among women which helps reduce stress, avoid the constant reliance on husbands and other male relatives and consequently, a reduction in the abuses that result from women's reliance on men. Though difficult to quantify, a qualitative study, like mine was able to capture these impact pathways.
I mention these things because i feel your research may benefit when you adopt methodologies and methods that privilege context and voice of participating women and one which looks beyond the credit to other wider social arrangements which credit may help nurture or even destroy.
I wish you good luck.
Fuseini

--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@...> wrote:

From: Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@...>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 3:07 PM

Good Morning!

Today I leave for Jimma, Ethiopia to begin a study entitled "The Status of Health and Microfinance in Jimma: Searching for a Meaningful Correlation, Is There Any" through the medical school at Jimma University. Our intent is to determine whether women involved in microfinance are empowered to and have greater access to better health (health as a poverty indicator) for themselves and their families. I look forward to shared discussion as the project unfolds. 

I must be off to catch my flight, but look forward to remaining in contact.

Be well!
T. Henderson, USA 

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com> wrote:

From: dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com>
Subject: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:52 AM

I am exploring how women's networks in group-based Microlending programs are used by women and or enhanced by MFIs for the purposes of their(Women' s) individual and or collective poverty alleviation, empowerment and health. Has anybody explored this before and what did they find?
In the microcredit literature, it is apparent that whiles women's networks(social capital) are appropriated by MFIs for loan repayments, peer monitoring and self-selection of creditworthy borrowers etc, very little is done to by the MFIs to utilize this resource(social capital) for the furtherance of the larger obejectives of empowerment, poverty and health. I argue that by ingoring this potential and actual resource(in some instances) the impacts of MFIs and or credit in many impact assessments either underestimate or overestimate depending on whether women's networks are fostered or destroyed through the pressures of loan repayments and or the design of the project itself.
I will be grateful if others can provide their views on this. I will also be grateful if you can point to relevant literature on this or any related articles.
Regards,
Fuseini, UK



#667 From: tanyahenderson71@...
Date: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:51 pm
Subject: Re: What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
tanyahenders...
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Dear Fuseini,

Thank you so much for you thoughtful response! I also hope (and hypothesize) that we will discover much of the same results that you found in Ghana particularly relating to domestic violence and overall empowerment. I am actually a lawyer by trade and my intended focus in the field of microfinance is gender law and property and land law. However I was invited to introduce microfinance into proposed research on health and poverty through Jimma University and thought that it would be an important opportunity to learn/observe the impacts of microfinance from the perspective of health.
l look forward to engaging more soon!
Sincerely,
Tanya.

Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry


From: Mr Fuseini Yamyia Dawuda
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:31:36 +0000 (GMT)
To: <genfinance@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?

Hi,
Tanya, I wish you a safe journey and a successful research. I am sure you will have fun and as well as find interesting correlates! My own research in Ghana among women micro credit beneficiaries indicate a strong correlation between access to credit and women's increased ability to not only decide the choice of care(ie, folk or orthodox) but also increased ability to pay for it. Apart from the obvious channels of increased consumption, i looked at issues of happiness, domestic violence, workload and women's sense of worth as proxies of health(ala Tipping, 1997).
I realised that women's increased ability to support each other (mutual support and reciprocity) through their networks(eg microcredit groups) in times of ill health and other shocks in life such as bereavement, naming ceremonies provide added security and a sense of control among women which helps reduce stress, avoid the constant reliance on husbands and other male relatives and consequently, a reduction in the abuses that result from women's reliance on men. Though difficult to quantify, a qualitative study, like mine was able to capture these impact pathways.
I mention these things because i feel your research may benefit when you adopt methodologies and methods that privilege context and voice of participating women and one which looks beyond the credit to other wider social arrangements which credit may help nurture or even destroy.
I wish you good luck.
Fuseini

--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 3:07 PM

Good Morning!

Today I leave for Jimma, Ethiopia to begin a study entitled "The Status of Health and Microfinance in Jimma: Searching for a Meaningful Correlation, Is There Any" through the medical school at Jimma University. Our intent is to determine whether women involved in microfinance are empowered to and have greater access to better health (health as a poverty indicator) for themselves and their families. I look forward to shared discussion as the project unfolds. 

I must be off to catch my flight, but look forward to remaining in contact.

Be well!
T. Henderson, USA 

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com> wrote:

From: dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com>
Subject: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:52 AM

I am exploring how women's networks in group-based Microlending programs are used by women and or enhanced by MFIs for the purposes of their(Women' s) individual and or collective poverty alleviation, empowerment and health. Has anybody explored this before and what did they find?
In the microcredit literature, it is apparent that whiles women's networks(social capital) are appropriated by MFIs for loan repayments, peer monitoring and self-selection of creditworthy borrowers etc, very little is done to by the MFIs to utilize this resource(social capital) for the furtherance of the larger obejectives of empowerment, poverty and health. I argue that by ingoring this potential and actual resource(in some instances) the impacts of MFIs and or credit in many impact assessments either underestimate or overestimate depending on whether women's networks are fostered or destroyed through the pressures of loan repayments and or the design of the project itself.
I will be grateful if others can provide their views on this. I will also be grateful if you can point to relevant literature on this or any related articles.
Regards,
Fuseini, UK



#668 From: Mr Fuseini Yamyia Dawuda <dyamyia@...>
Date: Wed Jul 15, 2009 3:16 pm
Subject: Re: What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
dyamyia
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Dear Tanya,
I am sure you are unto something there-a legal perspective is definitely needed as very little work has been done about the legal stuff regarding microfinancing so that will be a very useful addition to the literature. I assume you are already in Ethiopia? If so, all the best of luck and please, keep me informed as i am very interested in your progress and findings.
Regards,
Fuseini
 


--- On Mon, 13/7/09, tanyahenderson71@... <tanyahenderson71@...> wrote:

From: tanyahenderson71@... <tanyahenderson71@...>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 9:51 PM

Dear Fuseini,

Thank you so much for you thoughtful response! I also hope (and hypothesize) that we will discover much of the same results that you found in Ghana particularly relating to domestic violence and overall empowerment. I am actually a lawyer by trade and my intended focus in the field of microfinance is gender law and property and land law. However I was invited to introduce microfinance into proposed research on health and poverty through Jimma University and thought that it would be an important opportunity to learn/observe the impacts of microfinance from the perspective of health.
l look forward to engaging more soon!
Sincerely,
Tanya.
Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry

From: Mr Fuseini Yamyia Dawuda
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:31:36 +0000 (GMT)
To: <genfinance@yahoogro ups.com>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
Hi,
Tanya, I wish you a safe journey and a successful research. I am sure you will have fun and as well as find interesting correlates! My own research in Ghana among women micro credit beneficiaries indicate a strong correlation between access to credit and women's increased ability to not only decide the choice of care(ie, folk or orthodox) but also increased ability to pay for it. Apart from the obvious channels of increased consumption, i looked at issues of happiness, domestic violence, workload and women's sense of worth as proxies of health(ala Tipping, 1997).
I realised that women's increased ability to support each other (mutual support and reciprocity) through their networks(eg microcredit groups) in times of ill health and other shocks in life such as bereavement, naming ceremonies provide added security and a sense of control among women which helps reduce stress, avoid the constant reliance on husbands and other male relatives and consequently, a reduction in the abuses that result from women's reliance on men. Though difficult to quantify, a qualitative study, like mine was able to capture these impact pathways.
I mention these things because i feel your research may benefit when you adopt methodologies and methods that privilege context and voice of participating women and one which looks beyond the credit to other wider social arrangements which credit may help nurture or even destroy.
I wish you good luck.
Fuseini

--- On Mon, 13/7/09, Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@ yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@ yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Monday, 13 July, 2009, 3:07 PM

Good Morning!

Today I leave for Jimma, Ethiopia to begin a study entitled "The Status of Health and Microfinance in Jimma: Searching for a Meaningful Correlation, Is There Any" through the medical school at Jimma University. Our intent is to determine whether women involved in microfinance are empowered to and have greater access to better health (health as a poverty indicator) for themselves and their families. I look forward to shared discussion as the project unfolds. 

I must be off to catch my flight, but look forward to remaining in contact.

Be well!
T. Henderson, USA 

--- On Mon, 7/13/09, dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com> wrote:

From: dyamyia <dyamyia@yahoo. com>
Subject: [genfinance] What is any are the impacts of women's networks on poverty, empowerment?
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com
Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 6:52 AM

I am exploring how women's networks in group-based Microlending programs are used by women and or enhanced by MFIs for the purposes of their(Women' s) individual and or collective poverty alleviation, empowerment and health. Has anybody explored this before and what did they find?
In the microcredit literature, it is apparent that whiles women's networks(social capital) are appropriated by MFIs for loan repayments, peer monitoring and self-selection of creditworthy borrowers etc, very little is done to by the MFIs to utilize this resource(social capital) for the furtherance of the larger obejectives of empowerment, poverty and health. I argue that by ingoring this potential and actual resource(in some instances) the impacts of MFIs and or credit in many impact assessments either underestimate or overestimate depending on whether women's networks are fostered or destroyed through the pressures of loan repayments and or the design of the project itself.
I will be grateful if others can provide their views on this. I will also be grateful if you can point to relevant literature on this or any related articles.
Regards,
Fuseini, UK



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#670 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:34 pm
Subject: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
lindamayoux
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Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest women’s empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent – 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 



 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 

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#671 From: "Sara Pait" <spait@...>
Date: Tue Jul 28, 2009 3:27 pm
Subject: Re: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East RegionalMicrocredit Summit
paitsara
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Hi, I sent this title for a plenary:
 
Visioning empowerment in Microfinance: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
 
I sent this title for a workshop session:

Research to determine women/men relation within lower and higher productivity MSE segments: financial and non financial needs and potentialities.
For Training:
 
Gender action learning training
 
Good luck with the campaign.
 
Sara
 
-------Mensaje original-------
 
Fecha: 28/07/2009 09:34:48 a.m.
Asunto: [genfinance] VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East RegionalMicrocredit Summit
 
 

Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest womens empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@microcreditsummit.org]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@ntlworld.com
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 



 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 

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#672 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Tue Jul 28, 2009 4:24 pm
Subject: RE: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East RegionalMicrocredit Summit
lindamayoux
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Thanks Sara,

 

Following your lead:

 

I suggested for a new plenary:

Microfinance for empowerment: innovations from around the world

Ie not just on gender but on empowerment. But we try also to get people who can speak on gender also in the other plenaries. Would also be good if we can submit the GALS and/or other WEMAN videos.

 

For a new session I suggested:

 

Self-managed Associations: challenges and innovations in indigenous models

 

For training I suggested:

 

Empowering women through micro-finance: issues and innovations

 

Looking forward to hearing also from others,

Linda

 

From: genfinance@yahoogroups.com [mailto:genfinance@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Sara Pait
Sent: 28 July 2009 16:28
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan; Thies Reemer; roghaya hamza; Tigist Tesfaye; getanehg2002@...; mwarose@...; Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
Subject: Re: [genfinance] VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East RegionalMicrocredit Summit

 

 

 

Hi, I sent this title for a plenary:

 

Visioning empowerment in Microfinance: the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years

 

I sent this title for a workshop session:

Research to determine women/men relation within lower and higher productivity MSE segments: financial and non financial needs and potentialities.

For Training:

 

Gender action learning training

 

Good luck with the campaign.

 

Sara

 

-------Mensaje original-------

 

Fecha: 28/07/2009 09:34:48 a.m.

Asunto: [genfinance] VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East RegionalMicrocredit Summit

 

 

Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest women’s empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent – 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 




 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

LINK TO SURVEY:
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#673 From: Maria Sara Jijon <msjijon@...>
Date: Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:11 pm
Subject: WAM-Ecuador: "launch" of the "Alianza para las Microfinanzas con Enfoque de Gnero -AMEG" (Quito, TODAY, July 29, 2009)
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Dear friends from the GenFinance e-List,

We want to share with all of you an event that we are promoting.

Today we will launch an initiative that we are proposing to the whole Ecuadorian community, the creation of an "Alliance for Microfinance with a Gender Focus." This will be a process in which all interested actors can participate.

In due time, we will send you the results of today's event (including some pictures).

Hugs to all from the Middle of the World!!! In the year of the Bicentennial of the Quito Revolution (August 10, 1809).

MARIA SARA

Spanish Version

Estimad@s tod@s,

Queremos compartir con ustedes un hito importante para nuestro proceso de construccin de procesos participados en los temas que nos ocupan.

Hoy lanzaremos una iniciativa a la comunidad ecuatoriana, la creacin de la "Alianza para las Microfinanzas con Enfoque de Gnero -AMEG", a la cual hemos invitado a personas e instituciones que tienen inters en estos temas.

Oportunamente les estaremos enviando los resultados de la jornada de hoy (incluidas fotos).

Un abrazo a tod@s, en el ao del Bicentenario de la Revolucin de Quito (10 de agosto de 1809).

--
Maria Sara Jijon C., LLM
Presidenta, WAM-Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador
Fono (directo): +593.2.323-7957
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#674 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:28 am
Subject: FW: There’s still time to download the new MFI Consumer Protection tools!
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From: Robin Ratcliffe, Director Campaign for Client Protection [mailto:campaign.cfi@...]
Sent: 29 July 2009 16:08
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: There’s still time to download the new MFI tools!

 

                           

Dear Linda,

I have great news to share with you.

This month, we released BETA versions of our MFI self-assessment guide and questionnaire that we hope will be the first of several tools that we will develop to encourage implementation of the Principles of Client Protection in microfinance.

Already, over 100 supporters of the Campaign for Client Protection in Microfinance have downloaded the new tools.

But I noticed that you haven’t had a chance to download the new MFI tools and wanted to make sure you still had an opportunity to do so during this critical time. The BEST way to get started is to download the short questionnaire (or, if you’re not an MFI, forward those you’re associated with) – it only takes a few minutes to start today.

Click here to take the first step in implementing the Principles of Client Protection  today.

We are still in the early stages of our campaign, but these tools are a first step in helping to identify key areas in which the microfinance community – particularly our early endorsers – can build early momentum toward implementing client protection principles.

While these tools are a work in progress, your initial experience with these tools will help us refine and enhance them for broader distribution.

Start today by downloading the shorter questionnaire for your organization here.

Thanks for helping us build a stronger microfinance community through client protection!

Sincerely,

Robin Ratcliffe
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#675 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Thu Jul 30, 2009 11:30 am
Subject: FW: Devfinance: WAM-Ecuador: "launch" of the "Alianza para las Microfinanzas con Enfoque de Género -AMEG" (Quito, TODAY, July 29, 2009)
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From: Development Finance [mailto:devfinance@...] On Behalf Of Maria Sara Jijon Calderon
Sent: 29 July 2009 15:54
To: Development Finance
Subject: Devfinance: WAM-Ecuador: "launch" of the "Alianza para las Microfinanzas con Enfoque de Género -AMEG" (Quito, TODAY, July 29, 2009)

 

Dear friends from the DevFinance e-List,

 

We want to share with all of you an event that we are promoting.

 

Today we will launch an initiative that we are proposing to the whole Ecuadorian community, the creation of an "Alliance for Microfinance with a Gender Focus."  This will be a process in which all interested actors can participate.

 

In due time, we will send you the results of today's event (including some pictures).

 

Hugs to all from the Middle of the World!!!  In the year of the Bicentennial of the Quito Revolution (August 10, 1809).

 

MARIA SARA

Spanish Version

 

Estimad@s tod@s,

 

Queremos compartir con ustedes un hito importante para nuestro proceso de construcción de procesos participados en los temas que nos ocupan.

 

Hoy lanzaremos una iniciativa a la comunidad ecuatoriana, la creación de la "Alianza para las Microfinanzas con Enfoque de Género -AMEG", a la cual hemos invitado a personas e instituciones que tienen interés en estos temas.

 

Oportunamente les estaremos enviando los resultados de la jornada de hoy (incluidas fotos).

 

Un abrazo a tod@s, en el año del Bicentenario de la Revolución de Quito (10 de agosto de 1809).

 

--
Maria Sara Jijon C., LLM
Presidenta, WAM-Ecuador
Quito, Ecuador
Fono (directo): +593.2.323-7957
Movil: +593.8.706-1211
Skype: msjijon
www.linkedin.com/in/msjijon
www.facebook.com/msjijon
www.twitter.com/msjijon
www.sarajijon.blogspot.com/

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#676 From: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Date: Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:23 pm
Subject: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
lindamayoux
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Dear all,

 

So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful gender discussions at the Summit – a  missed opportunity. And without inpout from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN can do.

 

So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our contacts in the Summit Campaign.

 

This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility always of suggesting something specific on gender in the ‘any other suggestions’ box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes. And numbers will count.

 

Thanks in advance,

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

From: Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@...]
Sent: 28 July 2009 15:34
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@...); Thies Reemer (Thies.Reemer@...); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@...); 'getanehg2002@...'; 'spait@...'; 'mwarose@...'; roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
Subject: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
Importance: High

 

Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest women’s empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent – 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 

 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 

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#677 From: Tanya Henderson <tanyahenderson71@...>
Date: Sun Aug 2, 2009 2:23 am
Subject: Re: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
tanyahenders...
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Dear all,

I have responded to the survey. The following are suggestions that I made for additional topics to be covered.

1. Microfinance as a tool for empowering women and reducing gender inequities. 2. Understanding "gender" barriers preventing the success of microfinance (i.e. gender based division of labor, limited rights or lack of control over economic resources and property within familial or community institutions, more disadvantaged in skills, availability of time, and subject to greater cultural taboos and restrictions than men.)

Thanks for the reminder!
Tanya

--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Linda Mayoux <l.mayoux@...> wrote:

From: Linda Mayoux <l.mayoux@...>
Subject: [genfinance] RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com, "Anne Folan" <anne.folan@...>, "Thies Reemer" <Thies.Reemer@...>, "roghaya hamza" <rogaya20@...>, "Tigist Tesfaye" <tigt8@...>, getanehg2002@..., mwarose@..., "roghaya hamza" <rogaya20@...>, "Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society" <bukonzojoint@...>, "Clemens Wennekes" <Clemens.Wennekes@...>
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 10:23 AM

 

Dear all,

 

So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful gender discussions at the Summit – a  missed opportunity. And without inpout from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN can do.

 

So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our contacts in the Summit Campaign.

 

This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility always of suggesting something specific on gender in the ‘any other suggestions’ box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes. And numbers will count.

 

Thanks in advance,

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

From: Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@ ntlworld. com]
Sent: 28 July 2009 15:34
To: genfinance@yahoogro ups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@ gmail.com) ; Thies Reemer (Thies.Reemer@ oxfamnovib. nl); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@yahoo. com); Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@hotmail. com); 'getanehg2002@ yahoo.com' ; 'spait@terra. com.pe'; 'mwarose@yahoo. com'; roghaya hamza (rogaya20@yahoo. com); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
Subject: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
Importance: High

 

Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest women’s empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent – 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@ microcreditsummi t.org]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@ntlworld. com
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 

 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymo nkey.com/ s.aspx?sm= UypLioxdlHdNY7mN nOSMCg_3d_ 3d

 


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

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#678 From: Getaneh Gobezie <getanehg2002@...>
Date: Sun Aug 2, 2009 5:39 am
Subject: Fw: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
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Sorry again,

The topics I have added in the 'any other suggestion' box at the bottom of pages include:

MICROFINANCE FOR WOMEN EMPOWERMENT,  AND ENSURING 'FOOD SECURITY OF WOMEN THROUGH MICROFINANCE'

[please note that I will not have easy access for e-mails for the next ten days or so, as i am still on rural field trips]

Getaneh

--- On Sat, 8/1/09, Getaneh Gobezie <getanehg2002@...> wrote:

From: Getaneh Gobezie <getanehg2002@...>
Subject: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
To: "Linda Mayoux" <l.mayoux@...>
Cc: anne.folan@..., Thies.Reemer@..., rogaya20@..., tigt8@..., mwarose@..., bukonzojoint@..., Clemens.Wennekes@...
Date: Saturday, August 1, 2009, 12:00 PM

Dear Linda,

Thank you very much for this note! I did my part, but sorry for my late reaction -- I didn't have the access for the internete as I am still on field work.

I hope Tigist from AEMFI will urge Ethiopian MFIs to react.

Getaneh

--- On Fri, 7/31/09, Linda Mayoux <l.mayoux@...> wrote:

From: Linda Mayoux <l.mayoux@...>
Subject: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com, "Anne Folan" <anne.folan@...>, "Thies Reemer" <Thies.Reemer@...>, "roghaya hamza" <rogaya20@...>, "Tigist Tesfaye" <tigt8@...>, getanehg2002@..., mwarose@..., "roghaya hamza" <rogaya20@...>, "Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society" <bukonzojoint@...>, "Clemens Wennekes" <Clemens.Wennekes@...>
Date: Friday, July 31, 2009, 10:23 AM

Dear all,

 

So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful gender discussions at the Summit – a  missed opportunity. And without inpout from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN can do.

 

So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our contacts in the Summit Campaign.

 

This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility always of suggesting something specific on gender in the ‘any other suggestions’ box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes. And numbers will count.

 

Thanks in advance,

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

From: Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@...]
Sent: 28 July 2009 15:34
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@...); Thies Reemer (Thies.Reemer@...); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@...); 'getanehg2002@...'; 'spait@...'; 'mwarose@...'; roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
Subject: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
Importance: High

 

Dear all,

 

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

 

-          Suggest women’s empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

-          Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

-          Request a gender training under the training sessions.

 

This is VERY urgent – 7th August is the cut-off date.

 

Best wishes,

Linda

 

 

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009

 


 


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

 

Nairobi


 


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

 

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

 



LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic..
  

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market 
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million 
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending:  Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models:  Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor:  How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.  

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems 

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d



 

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#679 From: Smita Premchander <smitapremchander@...>
Date: Sun Aug 2, 2009 5:30 am
Subject: Re: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
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Dear All,
Thanks, Linda, for reminding.
I have suggested the following topic:
Delivery of Microfinance in ways that empower Women
And the following for for workshop discussion:
Depositor safety: A lost concern in Advocacy for Regulatory Reform
And the following for day long session
Learning Financial Literacy forempowering women through microfinance
Hope this helps. Warm regards,
Smita

On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Linda Mayoux <l.mayoux@...> wrote:

Dear all,

So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful gender discussions at the Summit a missed opportunity. And without inpout from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN can do.

So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our contacts in the Summit Campaign.

This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility always of suggesting something specific on gender in the any other suggestions box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes. And numbers will count.

Thanks in advance,

Linda

From: Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@...]
Sent: 28 July 2009 15:34
To: genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@...); Thies Reemer (Thies.Reemer@...); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@...); 'getanehg2002@...'; 'spait@...'; 'mwarose@...'; roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
Subject: VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
Importance: High

Dear all,

If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we need to do the following:

- Suggest womens empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session. Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit organisers.

- Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the list again!)

- Request a gender training under the training sessions.

This is VERY urgent 7th August is the cut-off date.

Best wishes,

Linda

From: Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
Sent: 17 July 2009 21:32
To: l.mayoux@...
Subject: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement

July 17, 2009


Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit

Nairobi


Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo

We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaign and AMFI will co-organize the Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (AMERMS) to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from April 7-10, 2010.

The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading Kenyan MFI's.

We are asking for your help in selecting the plenary, workshop, and day-long course titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential titles, see below. Please complete the following survey NO LATER THAN August 7, 2009. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist nominations after selecting the session titles.

Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online survey to make your selections.

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d


LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS

PLENARY SESSIONS:
There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.

  1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty: Innovations from Around the World
  2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant workshop sessions.)
  3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
  4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
  5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
  6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End Poverty
  7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements


WORKSHOPS:
You will be asked to select your top 14 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.

  1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
  2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population Densities
  3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated MFI
  4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
  5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
  6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
  7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
  8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation, the MFI, and the Clients
  9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
  10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to Reduce Vulnerability
  11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection
  12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
  13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral Agencies for MFIs
  14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
  15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
  16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
  17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
  18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
  19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
  20. Microcredit & Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
  21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the Opportunities?
  22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the Environment
  23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative Experience
  24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating Microfinance with Education in Health
  25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for Microfinance Effectively
  26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
  27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
  28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
  29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
  30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other Difficult Settings
  31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and Opportunities
  32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
  33. Microfinance for Housing
  34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to Opportunity
  35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
  36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized Countries
  37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market
  38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
  39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings Mobilization Regulations
  40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million
  41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic Growth
  42. Energy Lending: Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
  43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models: Status and Trends
  44. Advocacy for the Poor: How MFIs Can Influence Governmental Financial & Domestic Policy
  45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
  46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems; Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
  47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
  48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
  49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
  50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance, Health Education and Other Initiatives
  51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New Settlements
  52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the Compartamos IPO


DAY-LONG COURSES:
You will be asked to select your top 4 choices from the titles below or suggest a new topic.

  1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While Reaching the Poorest Families
  2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in Microfinance
  3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in Health
  4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance Program
  5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
  6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
  7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1 a Day Threshold
  8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
  9. Training Materials MFI Members
  10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems

LINK TO SURVEY:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d

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#680 From: "gomathykailaspathyvenkateswar" <goma11@...>
Date: Mon Aug 3, 2009 3:31 pm
Subject: Re: Re: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
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Dear Online Friends,
Though I have not been a regular participant of the discussion group, I have been on this Dialogue right from the beginning, before the BALI SUMMIT.
Namrata Sharma connected me on to it, and I have been following its course with interest.

I would like to inform you for those who are interested that on the 19th November 2009, the Indian Federation of University Women's Asscn. is organizing an International Conference in Kolkata India, to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the VIRGINIA GILDERSLEEVE INT'L FUND, based in New York, a Global Funding Foundation which in the last 4 decades since its establishment in 1969 has given over 1.6 million dollars to Women's Projects across the world mainly to newly developing African countries, and countries in the Indian subcontinent,besides newly developing Nations in Eastern Europe and the erstwhile Soviet Union.
The conference theme is WOMEN,WATER AND FOOD SECURITY.

We have drawn up 8 key speakers, two from Nepal, one of whom is Namrata Sharma who as a pioneer in Nepal in the field of Finance literacy will be interacting with other speakers in the plenary sessions on the importance of gaining finance literacy to access micro credit which for women in developing countries is crucial to access resources for economic integrity and independence.
Both the criticalities of water shortage and food insecurity in many countries at present, can be overcome for indigent women through this economic power gained through finance literacy.

Other speakers who are coming for the Int'l Conference are from New Zealand, and one from Rwanda, Africa.

The Host Committee in Kolkata,India is working on making this programme quite an Event, and we hope that this mail can motivate some of you on this Online Group to be there and share in the interaction and dialogue that will develop to thereafter recommend the resolutions passed to governmental Policy making institutions.

Best Regards,
Gomathy Venkateswar.
Member on the Board of Direcors
Virginia Gildesleeve Int'l Fund.





I endorse Smita Premchander's stand for integrating the theme of finance literacy in the forthcoming agenda for the summit.




On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:14:16 +0530 wrote
>Dear All,
>
>Thanks, Linda, for reminding.
>
>I have suggested the following topic:
>Delivery of Microfinance in ways that empower Women
>
>And the following for for workshop discussion:
>Depositor safety: A lost concern in Advocacy for Regulatory Reform
>
>And the following for day long session
>Learning Financial Literacy for empowering women through microfinance
>
>Hope this helps. Warm regards,
>
>Smita
>
>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Linda Mayoux wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin
>> America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The
>> deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions
>> now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful
>> gender discussions at the Summit a missed opportunity. And without inpout
>> from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN
>> can do.
>>
>>
>>
>> So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and
>> INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we
>> have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our
>> contacts in the Summit Campaign.
>>
>>
>>
>> *This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on
>> the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility
>> always of suggesting something specific on gender in the any other
>> suggestions box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes.
>> And numbers will count.*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Linda
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@...]
>> *Sent:* 28 July 2009 15:34
>> *To:* genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@...); Thies
>> Reemer (Thies.Reemer@...); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...);
>> Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@...); 'getanehg2002@...'; '
>> spait@...'; 'mwarose@...'; roghaya hamza (
>> rogaya20@...); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
>> *Subject:* VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:
>> Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit
>> Summit
>> *Importance:* High
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we
>> need to do the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> - Suggest womens empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session.
>> Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and
>> also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the
>> impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit
>> organisers.
>>
>> - Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the
>> list again!)
>>
>> - Request a gender training under the training sessions.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is VERY urgent *7th August* is the cut-off date.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Linda
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
>>
>> *Sent:* 17 July 2009 21:32
>> *To:* l.mayoux@...
>> *Subject:* Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East
>> Regional Microcredit Summit
>>
>>
>>
>> Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement
>>
>> July 17, 2009
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *
>> **Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional
>> Microcredit Summit*
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Nairobi]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Click Here to Donate!
>>
>> We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaignand AMFI will co-organize the
>> *Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils
>> (AMERMS)* to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from *April 7-10, 2010*.
>>
>> The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans
>> presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best
>> innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long
>> courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading
>> Kenyan MFI's.
>>
>> We are asking for your help in selecting the *plenary*, *workshop*, and *day-long
>> course *titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential
>> titles, see below. Please complete the following survey *NO LATER THANAugust 7, 2009
>> *. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do
>> NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist
>> nominations after selecting the session titles.
>>
>> Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online
>> survey to make your selections.
>>
>> *LINK TO SURVEY:*
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS
>>
>> *PLENARY SESSIONS*:
>> There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you
>> will be asked to select your top *4 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>> 1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty:
>> Innovations from Around the World
>> 2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on
>> Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant
>> workshop sessions.)
>> 3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for
>> Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
>> 4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where,
>> Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
>> 5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial
>> Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
>> 6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End
>> Poverty
>> 7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems;
>> Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
>> 8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
>> 9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure
>> Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
>> 10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
>> 11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance,
>> Health Education and Other Initiatives
>> 12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New
>> Settlements
>>
>>
>> *WORKSHOPS*:
>> You will be asked to select your top *14 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>>
>> 1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
>> 2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population
>> Densities
>> 3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated
>> MFI
>> 4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct
>> Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
>> 5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
>> 6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute
>> with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
>> 7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
>> 8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation,
>> the MFI, and the Clients
>> 9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
>> 10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to
>> Reduce Vulnerability
>> 11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward
>> Consumer Protection
>> 12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
>> 13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral
>> Agencies for MFIs
>> 14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
>> 15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
>> 16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
>> 17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful
>> Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
>> 18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge
>> on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
>> 19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of
>> Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
>> 20. Microcredit Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
>> 21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the
>> Opportunities?
>> 22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the
>> Environment
>> 23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative
>> Experience
>> 24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating
>> Microfinance with Education in Health
>> 25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for
>> Microfinance Effectively
>> 26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
>> 27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring
>> a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
>> 28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance
>> Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
>> 29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
>> 30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other
>> Difficult Settings
>> 31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and
>> Opportunities
>> 32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
>> 33. Microfinance for Housing
>> 34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to
>> Opportunity
>> 35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
>> 36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized
>> Countries
>> 37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market
>> 38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
>> 39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings
>> Mobilization Regulations
>> 40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we
>> Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million
>> 41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to
>> Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic
>> Growth
>> 42. Energy Lending: Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
>> 43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models: Status and Trends
>> 44. Advocacy for the Poor: How MFIs Can Influence Governmental
>> Financial Domestic Policy
>> 45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
>> 46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems;
>> Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
>> 47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
>> 48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure
>> Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
>> 49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
>> 50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance,
>> Health Education and Other Initiatives
>> 51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New
>> Settlements
>> 52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the
>> Compartamos IPO
>>
>>
>> *DAY-LONG COURSES*:
>> You will be asked to select your top *4 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>> 1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While
>> Reaching the Poorest Families
>> 2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in
>> Microfinance
>> 3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in
>> Health
>> 4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance
>> Program
>> 5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for
>> Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
>> 6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
>> 7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1
>> a Day Threshold
>> 8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
>> 9. Training Materials MFI Members
>> 10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems
>>
>> *LINK TO SURVEY*:
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d
>>
>>
>>
>> *Forward email
>> *
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#681 From: "gomathykailaspathyvenkateswar" <goma11@...>
Date: Mon Aug 3, 2009 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: Re: RE: REMINDER VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW: Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit
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Dear All,

Further to the earlier mail sent a few minutes ago, I add the website of the two organizations that will give further details and Update/Agenda to the Conference in Kolkata in November.
www.vgif.org
www.faf.org
the second website are the tour and travel agents who are organizing the 4th Anniversary Friendship Trip to Nepal and India before the Conference scheduled in Kolkata on 18th,19th and 20th November 2009.
All details are posted on these two websites.
Thanks once again
Gomathy Venkateswar



On Sun, 02 Aug 2009 22:14:16 +0530 wrote
>Dear All,
>
>Thanks, Linda, for reminding.
>
>I have suggested the following topic:
>Delivery of Microfinance in ways that empower Women
>
>And the following for for workshop discussion:
>Depositor safety: A lost concern in Advocacy for Regulatory Reform
>
>And the following for day long session
>Learning Financial Literacy for empowering women through microfinance
>
>Hope this helps. Warm regards,
>
>Smita
>
>On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 10:53 PM, Linda Mayoux wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> So far I have only heard from Sara in Peru (who organised the WEMAN Latin
>> America process) with her suggestions which she has sent to the Summit. The
>> deadline for this is 7th August. Unless people put in their suggestions
>> now, it is very unlikely we would be able to have any really meaningful
>> gender discussions at the Summit a missed opportunity. And without inpout
>> from you the practitioners, there is very little that Oxfam Novib or WEMAN
>> can do.
>>
>>
>>
>> So please organise and circulate to eg AEMFI members from Addis and
>> INAFI/WAM Africa members, copied to genfinance or myself and Thies so we
>> have some idea of how things are going and can then follow up with our
>> contacts in the Summit Campaign.
>>
>>
>>
>> *This is now the really crucial stage. All you need to do is to click on
>> the link below, and follow the instructions, bearing in mind the possibility
>> always of suggesting something specific on gender in the any other
>> suggestions box at the bottom of each page. It only takes a few minutes.
>> And numbers will count.*
>>
>> * *
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Linda
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Linda Mayoux [mailto:l.mayoux@...]
>> *Sent:* 28 July 2009 15:34
>> *To:* genfinance@yahoogroups.com; Anne Folan (anne.folan@...); Thies
>> Reemer (Thies.Reemer@...); roghaya hamza (rogaya20@...);
>> Tigist Tesfaye (tigt8@...); 'getanehg2002@...'; '
>> spait@...'; 'mwarose@...'; roghaya hamza (
>> rogaya20@...); Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Cooperative Society
>> *Subject:* VERY URGENT Reponse needed by August 7th to promote gender FW:
>> Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit
>> Summit
>> *Importance:* High
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>>
>>
>> If we want gender to have visibility at the Africa Summit April 2010, we
>> need to do the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> - Suggest womens empowerment or gender as a NEW plenary session.
>> Please come up with your own titles, but copy responses to genfinance and
>> also to me and Thies so we can monitor response. That will help us gauge the
>> impact of any responses you give in our negotiations with the Summit
>> organisers.
>>
>> - Vote for session 26 on gender equality (seems to move down the
>> list again!)
>>
>> - Request a gender training under the training sessions.
>>
>>
>>
>> This is VERY urgent *7th August* is the cut-off date.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best wishes,
>>
>> Linda
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Microcredit Summit Secretariat [mailto:info@...]
>>
>> *Sent:* 17 July 2009 21:32
>> *To:* l.mayoux@...
>> *Subject:* Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East
>> Regional Microcredit Summit
>>
>>
>>
>> Microcredit Summit Campaign Announcement
>>
>> July 17, 2009
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *
>> **Session Title Selection for the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional
>> Microcredit Summit*
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Nairobi]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Microcredit Summit Campaign Logo]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Click Here to Donate!
>>
>> We are delighted to announce that the Microcredit Summit Campaignand AMFI will co-organize the
>> *Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils
>> (AMERMS)* to be held in Nairobi, Kenya from *April 7-10, 2010*.
>>
>> The Summit will include an opening and closing ceremony, 2 Action Plans
>> presented in plenary, 5 other plenary sessions, a video competition for best
>> innovations in microfinance, 14-21 workshop sessions, at least 4 day-long
>> courses, a set of council meetings, and optional field visits to leading
>> Kenyan MFI's.
>>
>> We are asking for your help in selecting the *plenary*, *workshop*, and *day-long
>> course *titles to be offered. For a full, printable list of the potential
>> titles, see below. Please complete the following survey *NO LATER THANAugust 7, 2009
>> *. Responses received after this date will not be considered. Please do
>> NOT send panelist recommendations at this time; we will solicit panelist
>> nominations after selecting the session titles.
>>
>> Please review the choices of session titles below, then complete the online
>> survey to make your selections.
>>
>> *LINK TO SURVEY:*
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> LIST OF SUGGESTED TITLES AND TOPICS
>>
>> *PLENARY SESSIONS*:
>> There will be up to five plenary sessions at the Summit. In the survey you
>> will be asked to select your top *4 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>> 1. Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty:
>> Innovations from Around the World
>> 2. Viewing and Discussion of Competition Winners: 5-Minute Videos on
>> Innovation in Microfinance (Videos selected will also be shown in relevant
>> workshop sessions.)
>> 3. Factors that Contribute to Exponential Growth: Case Studies for
>> Massive Outreach to the Poor and Poorest
>> 4. The Future of Microfinance: Visioning the Who, What, When, Where,
>> Why, and How of Microfinance Expansion Over the Next 10 Years
>> 5. Commercialization: Overcoming the Obstacles to Accessing Commercial
>> Funds while Maintaining a Commitment to Reaching the Poorest
>> 6. Creating a Positive Microfinance Regulatory Environment to End
>> Poverty
>> 7. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems;
>> Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
>> 8. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
>> 9. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure
>> Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
>> 10. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
>> 11. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance,
>> Health Education and Other Initiatives
>> 12. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New
>> Settlements
>>
>>
>> *WORKSHOPS*:
>> You will be asked to select your top *14 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>>
>> 1. Innovations in Reducing Costs and Enhancing Productivity
>> 2. What Works for Microfinance in Rural Areas with Lower Population
>> Densities
>> 3. Transformation of Microfinance Operations from NGO to a Regulated
>> MFI
>> 4. Microfinance Investment Funds: What is the Role for Foreign Direct
>> Investors and Are We Measuring both Financial and Social Performance?
>> 5. Overcoming Regulatory and Legal Constraints to Savings Mobilization
>> 6. Five Cents a Day: Innovative Programs for Reaching the Destitute
>> with Microgrants, No-interest Loans and other Instruments
>> 7. Using Research Findings to Improve Design of Products and Services
>> 8. Corporate/MFI Partnerships that are Profitable for the Corporation,
>> the MFI, and the Clients
>> 9. Microfinance in Urban Slums
>> 10. Effective Micro-Insurance and Micro-Health Insurance Programs to
>> Reduce Vulnerability
>> 11. Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward
>> Consumer Protection
>> 12. Innovations and Challenges in MFI Ratings
>> 13. Accessing Loans and Grants from Bi-lateral and Multi-lateral
>> Agencies for MFIs
>> 14. How MFIs Can Best Work in Competitive, Saturated Environments
>> 15. Impact of HIV/AIDS on Microcredit and What is Being Done
>> 16. Innovations in Information Technology for the Clients and the MFI
>> 17. Lessons Learned in Improving Replicability of Successful
>> Microcredit Programs -How Can the Best Models 'Travel' Better?
>> 18. Reducing Extreme Poverty: A Deeper Discussion of the Cutting Edge
>> on Cost-Effectively Measuring Movement across the $1/Day Threshold
>> 19. With Transformation to Regulated MFI, What are the Models of
>> Ownership that Protect Social Mission?
>> 20. Microcredit Crop Agriculture: How to Make it Work
>> 21. Remittances: What are the Challenges and What are the
>> Opportunities?
>> 22. How MFIs and their Clients can have a Positive Impact on the
>> Environment
>> 23. Building Wealth through Leveraging Local Capital: the Cooperative
>> Experience
>> 24. Expanding Impact: Innovations in Cost-Effectively Integrating
>> Microfinance with Education in Health
>> 25. The Floodgates are Open: Channeling the Flows of Funds for
>> Microfinance Effectively
>> 26. How Microfinance can Better Contribute to Gender Equality
>> 27. Making Microfinance Matter for Clients and Their Families: Ensuring
>> a Social Performance Bottom Line in the Industry
>> 28. Good Practice in Business Development Services: How Do We Enhance
>> Entrepreneurial Skills of MFI Clients?
>> 29. How to Monitor and Improve Client Retention
>> 30. Microcredit in Post Conflict/Conflict, Natural Disaster, and Other
>> Difficult Settings
>> 31. Commercial Bank Participation in Microfinance: Options and
>> Opportunities
>> 32. Best practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks
>> 33. Microfinance for Housing
>> 34. The Power of Small Business Networks: From Marginality to
>> Opportunity
>> 35. Micro and Small Enterprises and Trade Policies
>> 36. Innovations in Microenterprise Development in Industrialized
>> Countries
>> 37. Regulations that Enable a RobustMicrofinance Market
>> 38. Technology: A Strategic Tool for Competition in Microfinance
>> 39. Saving is a Human Right: Dealing with the Problem of Savings
>> Mobilization Regulations
>> 40. Reaching 100 Million: Lessons Learned From the Past and What we
>> Need to Know In Reaching 175 Million
>> 41. Twinning Sustainable Tourism and Enterprise Development to
>> Alleviate Poverty, Foster Biodiversity Conservation, and Promote Economic
>> Growth
>> 42. Energy Lending: Access to Modern and Renewable Energy
>> 43. Internet and Mobile-Based Lending Models: Status and Trends
>> 44. Advocacy for the Poor: How MFIs Can Influence Governmental
>> Financial Domestic Policy
>> 45. Microfinance as a Platform for Other Services
>> 46. Meeting the Challenges: Financial Crisis and Liquidity Problems;
>> Price Fluctuations in Food and Fuel Prices
>> 47. The Critical Role of Microfinance in Securing and Sustaining Peace
>> 48. Using Microfinance and People's Own Initiatives to Ensure
>> Sustainable Development (Energy, Water, Environment)
>> 49. Microfinance in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands: What Is the Cutting Edge
>> 50. Using Microfinance to Promote Public Health: Micro-Insurance,
>> Health Education and Other Initiatives
>> 51. Microfinance and Urban Development: Slum Improvements and New
>> Settlements
>> 52. Expanding Commercialization Responsibly: Reflecting on the
>> Compartamos IPO
>>
>>
>> *DAY-LONG COURSES*:
>> You will be asked to select your top *4 choices* from the titles below or
>> suggest a new topic.
>>
>> 1. Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency While
>> Reaching the Poorest Families
>> 2. Learning to Cost-Effectively Assess and Manage Social Performance in
>> Microfinance
>> 3. Learning to Sustainably Integrate Microfinance and Education in
>> Health
>> 4. Entering the Field: Learning the Basics of Starting a Microfinance
>> Program
>> 5. Establishing an Appropriate Legal and Regulatory Environment for
>> Microfinance Institutions: A Policy and Programming Tool
>> 6. Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments
>> 7. Introduction to Using the Tools to Measure Movement Above the US$ 1
>> a Day Threshold
>> 8. Learning to reach the "Ultra Poor" with microfinance.
>> 9. Training Materials MFI Members
>> 10. Cutting Edge MIS Systems
>>
>> *LINK TO SURVEY*:
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UypLioxdlHdNY7mNnOSMCg_3d_3d
>>
>>
>>
>> *Forward email
>> *
>>
>> [image: Safe Unsubscribe]
>>
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>> .
>>
>> Update Profile/Email Address| Instant removal with
>> SafeUnsubscribe
>> | Privacy Policy
>> .
>>
>> Email Marketing by
>>
>>
>>
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>> | DC | 20002
>>
>>
>>
>

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#683 From: "Sara Pait" <spait@...>
Date: Wed Aug 19, 2009 4:27 pm
Subject: GENFINANCE EVENTS AND PUBLICATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA
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Dear All:
 
We are closing the circle of various important genfinance events held in Latin America this year.
 
LAC Regional Microcredit Summit
 
On June (7-11-2009), Latin America WEMAN network actively participated in the LAC Regional Microcredit Summit held on Cartagena, Colombia (1,500 participants). We had a Summit pre-event  directed to a group of MFI leaders and Technical assistance specialists - interested in microfinance, gender and empowerment issues - to let them know about Oxfam Novib WEMAN Global Programme (Women's Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking for Gender Justice in Economic Development) and to prepare-socialize a WEMAN strategy for the event, with their participation. Then, during the Summit our expanded team joined various plenary and associated sessions questioning and giving observations to highlight the gender approach not seen in the presentations. As WEMAN we had a Workshop Session on Gender, where two panelists from our network had presentations and an Associated Session, where as WEMAN team we prepared a panel on Gender Information Systems in Microfinance. We also distributed brochures and cds with information on WEMAN and publications prepared for the network. Within these publications we distributed a WEMAN Declaration for Inclusive Microfinance with Gender Justice. We also actively asked Summit participants to sign the Declaration. Please find some of the translated publications and the Latin American WEMAN Declaration attached to this e-mail (we will put the publications in the yahoogroups files later on).
 
On May 2009, we had the opportunity to share our experience preparing the Summit activities with African colleagues on the international workshop held on Ethiopia previously to the  AEMFI Forum celebrating the Institution's 10th Anniversary. This workshop was one of the initial activities leading to WEMAN's next participation in the African Regional Summit to be held on Kenya on 2010.
 
Latin America Village Banking Forum
 
The Village Banking Forum (470 participants) was held on Medellin on 14-15 of August 2009. There were two previous events held by our WEMAN network. One was a three days workshop to train members of seven Colombian IMFs on Gender Action Learning System (GALS methodology). This important event was planned in a late WEMAN International Workshop in Quito, on October 2008, in order to expand to Colombia the movement that is spreading along Peru and Ecuador with GALS interventions in Village Bank programmes (about 20,000 women are already involved in GALS experiences since September 2007, when the first pilot experience was delivered by Linda Mayoux and MFI's collaborators in Huaraz, Peru).
 
The other event was prepared by MFI practitioners that have an important role to build WEMAN as a international regional network along Latin American Countries, mainly in the Andean Region and Central America. This group delivers Genfinance Awareness raising workshops in diverse contexts, inviting MFI practioners, Government officials and Donors to share our aims.
 
Later on, in the Forum members of our team gave conferences on MFI's Social Management and Village Banking interventions for Gender Equality. In this context there was quite a good reception for our messages and also we distributed cds with WEMAN information to all the participants. The interest on WEMAN messages is expanding and there is now a lot of expectation on the sustainability and self-managing of our network. 
 
Thanks for your attention
 
Sara
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
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El Microfinance Gateway se complace en anunciar el lanzamiento del Portal de Microfinanzas, nuestro sitio nuevo en espaol!

Desarrollado por el CGAP y su asociado INCAE Business School de Costa Rica, el Portal de Microfinanzas ofrece una amplia gama de recursos para los profesionales hispanohablantes. El nuevo sitio cuenta con numerosas publicaciones, noticias y artculos de inters en el rea de las microfinanzas en Amrica Latina, as como tambin informaciones generales de pases, un directorio de organizaciones, eventos, y oportunidades de trabajo, brindndole al sector de microfinanzas de la regin un recurso importante en la Web. El Portal de Microfinanzas tambin permite a los usuarios interactuar e intercambiar conocimientos a travs de comentarios, categoras y estudios, ayudando a ampliar el aprendizaje de la comunidad global en el sector.

Para ms informacin, por favor consulte: http://www.portalmicrofinanzas.org

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The Microfinance Gateway is very excited to announce the launch of the Portal de Microfinanzas, our new Spanish-language affiliate site!

Developed by CGAP and content management partner INCAE Business School in Costa Rica, the Portal de Microfinanzas offers a wealth of resources tailored to Spanish-speaking microfinance practitioners. The new site features a library of over 500 publications, news and feature articles on microfinance in Latin America, as well as country profiles, a calendar of events and organizational and job listings, providing an important online resource for the region’s microfinance sector. The Portal de Microfinanzas also allows users to interact and exchange ideas through comment boards, ratings and reviews, helping to expand the knowledge of the global microfinance community.

Check it out here: http://www.portalmicrofinanzas.org

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