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UNITED NATIONS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Microfinance

Issue 5 / September - October 2004

Past Issues

Spotlight

Update on the International Year of Microcredit 2005

Featured Guest

Q & A with Elizabeth Littlefield, CEO of CGAP

News

Microfinance in focus

Voices of Microfinance

Responses to a question posed to experts and practitioners.

Upcoming Events

Conferences, events and trainings.

Links

New websites and publications.

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If you have a current news story or know of an upcoming event that would be of interest to the network, please email the Editor, Emily Krasnor.

Experts in all fields devoted to forwarding of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals will convene in Boulder, Colorado to discuss eradicating extreme poverty, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria, and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a global partnership for development. This meeting, the Sustainable Resources Conference 2004, will be held between 30 September and 2 October. For more information, go to http://www.sustainableresources.org/sr2004/index.html.

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The Africa Centre for Investment Analysis (ACIA) will host a conference on Sustainable Finance for Africa on October 20- 21, 2004 in Cape Town, South Africa. The focus of this congress is on theoretical and applied research on sustainable finance with special relevance to Africa. For more information contact Claire de Sousa at claireds@acia.sun.ac.za.

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SEEP holds its Annual General Meeting (AGM) & Workshops on Reducing Poverty with Economic Growth on October 25-29, 2004 in Washington DC, United States. For further information contact Camrin Emmons White at white@seepnetwork.org.

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A conference entitled, “Creating an Enabling Environment for Small Enterprise Development” will take place in Turin, Italy from 1 November to 12 November. It will host policy-makers and other senior officials of government departments and institutions who are responsible for microfinance operations. For more information, call +39 011 6936.776 or e-mail sme@itcilo.it.

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Mark your calendars! The Year of Microcredit 2005 will be launched 18 November! Visit www.yearofmicrocredit.org for updated information.

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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 Nov 2004 in Sri Lanka. More information is available at http://www.aidmat.com/idmat/turning_ngo.htm

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.

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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.

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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.

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