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UNITED NATIONS CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND Microfinance |
Issue 1 / January - February 2004 |
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Upcoming Events Upcoming Conferences, Events, and Trainings CAPAF, APIM-BF, Consortium ALAFIA, and PAFMR are organizing a first regional fair on management information systems for MFI's to take place in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28-30 January 2004. For more information, email tanguy@sentoo.net. The Asia/Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils will be held February 16-19, 2004 in Dhaka, Bangladesh at the Hotel Sheraton. The Summit Meeting in Dhaka will be organized with the recognition that we are leading up to the UN International Year of Microcredit 2005. The Meeting will also help to formulate strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. More information is available at http://www.pksf-bd.org/aprm_summit_brochure.htm. CGAP - UNCDF Donor Training-Financial Services for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference, June 2004, Antigua, Guatemala Sponsored by: CGAP - Consultative Group to Assist the Poor and UNCDF CGAP and UNCDF / Special Unit for Microfinance have developed a new series of five-day training workshops that translates this vision into concrete actions for donor staff. This field-based course is a primer in microfinance for CGAP member donors, UN agency staff, socially responsible investors, and policy makers. No extensive prior knowledge of financial statements and microfinance concepts is required. This course is intended for donor staff who manage microfinance projects but are also responsible for other activities and do not work full time on microfinance. It is highly participatory and based on case studies where participants apply the learned techniques step-by-step to analyze, decide on, design, and monitor a microfinance investment. It will also convey new thinking and international experience in the microfinance industry. For more information about this program, please contact us at sum training. 7th Annual Microenterprise Conference, Brigham Young University Provo, Utah USA March 11-13 2004. This year's theme of the conference, sponsored by the BYU Center for Economic Self Reliance, is "Microenterprise With Education". Additional information is available at: http://www.microenterprise.byu.edu International Course on Rural Microfinance 29 Mar 2004 - 9 Apr 2004, Wageningen, The Netherlands Sponsored by: International Agricultural Centre, Home-page: www.iac.wur.nl Closing date for application: 15 February 2004 Fee for this course: 2700, Code: 50/00 Focus of the course: This course offers a comprehensive framework for the design, implementation and evaluation of rural financial services. It derives its framework from the analyses of the financial landscape in the rural sector. The challenges in this financial landscape are summarised by meeting the demand for financial products and services of the clients by the supply determined by a policy framework and the design of financial institutions. For more information: e-mail: Training.iac@wur.NL 7th Annual Conference of Microfinance Institutions in Central and Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent States organized by the MFC for C and the NIS will take place from 27-29 May in Warsaw, Poland. More information on logistics and agenda will follow by the end of this year. MFC Conferences are attended by 300 representatives of practitioners, donors, investors, policy makers and other regional microfinance industry stakeholders. They are a unique learning and networking opportunity. Please visit www.mfc.org.pl/conference for more information on previous conferences. The MFC staff looks forward to seeing you in Warsaw next year. Grzegorz Galusek, Executive Director, Microfinance Centre tel:(48-22) 622-34-65, fax:(48-22) 622-34-85 e-mail: grzegorz@mfc.org.pl or visit the web site at www.mfc.org.pl |
