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Upcoming Events, Conferences, and Trainings For current graduate students only: Universities are not isolated from global events but also affect the course of these events while being affected by them. Graduate students in business, international affairs, journalism and any other relevant discipline are invited to become a “Student Ambassador” for the Year of Microcredit! If you would like to serve as a “Student Ambassador” for the Year, please send a letter of interest to the editor of this newsletter.*** ***
*** Mark your
calendars! The Year of Microcredit 2005 will be launched
18 November! Visit www.yearofmicrocredit.org
for updated information.
*** The 8th International Workshop on Turning NGOs to MFIs, sponsored by the Asian Society for Entrepreneurship Education and Development (ASEED), will be held from 13 Nov - 18 November 2004 in Sri Lanka. More information is available at http://www.aidmat.com/idmat/turning_ngo.htm *** The Instituto Mundial
de Cajas de Ahorros (IMCA) and the Federacion de Cajas de Credito y Bancos de
Trabajadores (FEDECREDITO) are organizing a conference on “Savings
Mobilization: How to achieve success in the low-income segment”. The conference
will be held under the patronage of the Central American Bank for Economic Integration
(BCIE), in San Salvador, El Salvador, 25-26 November 2004. For further information
regarding the conference, please contact Ms. Emma Fernandez at Emma.Fernadez@savings-banks.com
or visit the conference website at www.savings-banks.org *** The next CGAP/UNCDF donor training will be held in Dakar, Senegal from 22 – 26 November 2004. The workshop for CGAP member donors, UN agency staff, other donors, socially responsible investors and policy makers titled “Financial Services for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference”. For more information, please email: mila.co@undp.org. *** Folade and INAFI will hold the International Forum for Financing Micro and Small Entrepreneurship on Globalization of Financial Services and its Impact on Poverty from November 26 to December 1, 2004 in La Havana, Cuba. The conference is directed at microfinance practitioners and will focus on microcredit, remittances, poverty and globalization. Registration deadline is October 31, 2004. For more information go to http://www.folade.org/conferencia/vii-conferencia/indice-vii-conf.htm. *** The Bank Rakyat Indonesia (BRI) conference on Microbanking will explore BRI's twenty years of commitment to microfinance and development. Attendees will discuss the future of microfinance within the mainstream financial industry within the theme: Creating Opportunities for the Poor through Innovation. Taking place in Bali from 1 to 3 December, the program will also focus on the latest developments in information and communication technology (ICT). The International Year of Microcredit will be featured in the panel "Trend and Future Directions of Microfinance". More information is available at: http://www.ivpbri.com/html/seminarbali04/Frameset.html. *** The international conference on the private sector and the public good will be held at the Hyatt Regency in San Francisco, California, from 12 -14 December 2004. The central theme of the conference is “Eradicating Poverty through Profit -- Making Business Work for the Poor”. Among the many distinguished speakers are Mark Malloch Brown, Administrator, United Nations Development Programme (and Co-Chair of the Year of Microcredit Coordinating Committee), C.K Prahalad, and K. Vaman Kamath, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, ICICI Bank Ltd. More information is available at: http://povertyprofit.wri.org.
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