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On April 15-16, the Pontificia
Universidad Javeriana in Cali will be hosting an international symposium
on microcredit (in Spanish). You may find additional details about the activity
at the website: www.puj.edu.co/feconomicas/microcreditos.
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PLANET FINANCE, in association with Publicis Consultants and EFMA,
invites you to the conference "Microfinance, a New Market For Commercial
Banks and Financial Institutions?" Featured guests include Michel
Camdessus, Jacques Attali, Bernard Herman, Alice Nègre, and Karen Maguire.
Tuesday March 9th, 2004 from 8:00 am to 10:00 am Publicis, 133 avenue des Champs-Elysées
– Paris 8è – France - M° Charles de Gaulle-Etoile
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NIDO and the ILO ITC are offering a Joint programme entitiled,
"SME Cluster Development: Principles and Practice, Helping SME Clusters
in Developing Countries Meet their Potential in the Globalized Economy"
19 Apr 2004 - 30 Apr 2004 at the International Training Centre of the ILO in
Turin, Italy. This training course is for designers and managers of SME development
and local economic development programs, including staff of organizations providing
financial services and business development services such as local/central government
agencies, SME support agencies, finance institutions working with SMEs, NGO's,
etc. For more information call +39 011 6936.776 or email:
sme@itcilo.it.
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UNCDF and CGAP are pleased to announce the upcoming 5-day donor training course
"Building Financial Systems for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference"
in Italy 26-30 April 2004 with a focus on rural microfinance. The course is
designed for CGAP member donors, UN agency staff, other donors, socially responsible
investors and policy makers who are not specialists in microfinance, yet spend
some portion of their time on projects that include financial services. You
can find the general course brochure, details on the Italy training, and the
application sheets, containing more information on the course agenda, topics,
faculty, fees and application formalities, at our websites at: www.cgap.org/direct
or www.uncdf.org. The next course
will be held in Spanish from 31 May to 4 June, in Antigua/Guatemala.
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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 Microenterprise Development Institute
New Hampshire announces the availability of the full web site including
application materials for the 2004 training that will be held June 7th through
the 25th in beautiful Manchester, New Hampshire. The seventeen courses offered
by the MDI-NH Institute allows participants to either sample a variety of courses
or to concentrate in select areas which are arranged into six Learning Tracks.
Significant Early Applicant and Multiple Applicant discounts are offered. See
the web page for more details: www.mdi-nh.org
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This year's Association for Enterprise Opportunity's Conference
theme is "Microenterprise: A Declaration of Economic Independence - Strategies
for Sustainable Microenterprise Development". The AEO Annual Conference held in
May in Philadelphia is the largest microenterprise training event in the nation,
and is open to all of our members, supporters and colleagues. The Association
for Enterprise Opportunity's 2004 Conference Registration and Information is now
available online at: http://www.microenterpriseworks.org.
If you would like your own personal copy or extra copies of the registration booklets
for distribution, please contact Haydee Grijalva at 703.841.7760 ext. 24 or email:
hgrijalva@assoceo.org. For all other questions regarding the AEO 2004 Conference,
please contact Alan Tin at 808.732.2294
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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
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