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Upcoming Events, Conferences, and Trainings The 2nd Annual Meeting of Sanabel, the Microfinance Network of Arab Countries will take place in Cairo, Egypt from 6 December to 8 December 2004. There will be a one-hour special session on the International Year of Microcredit organized in collaboration with Sanabel. More information is available at: http://www.sanabelnetwork.org/apply.htm *** *** *** The World Bank's Development Marketplace (DM) Program has launched a call for Proposals for the next Global Development Marketpalce (DM 2005). The World Bank expects to award a total of at least US$3 million to winning projects, with a maximum award size of US$150,000. DM2005 will focus solely on projects related to the environment. As such, all proposal submissions should reflect the theme: Innovations for Livelihoods in a Sustainable Environment. The objective behind this thematic approach is to incubate solutions to some of the most demanding challenges in a particular sector, and to use the results to inform the thinking and knowledge sharing within the World Bank and in the development community- at-large. Submissions should be received by 21 January 2005 and the finalists will be announced on 30 March 2005. For more information please visit: http://www.developmentmarketplace.org *** A special
session on microfinance and the mainstream financial sector at the World
Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland will feature leaders of financial
institutions such as Citigroup and ING in a discussion on how to serve the
bottom of the financial pyramid and how to promote inclusive financial systems.
This project is organized in collaboration with Brugger & Partners Ltd.
*** UNCDF and CGAP have collaborated closely over the past two years to develop a state-of-the-art course that addresses the training needs of international development agencies and policy makers in microfinance. The five-day workshop, “Building Financial Systems for the Poor: How Donors Can Make a Difference” covers global good practices and focuses on how donors and funders can play an effective role in supporting financial systems that work for poor people. . Over 130 people responsible for microfinance projects (from UNDP and other donor agencies, social investors, government, NGOs, etc.) have already participated in this course. The next course, the first in French, will be held in Benin 7-11 February 2005. For more information, please email: mila.co@undp.org. *** The M.I.T. Poverty Action Lab will hold its inaugural Executive Education Program, from 21 March to 25 March, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The program aims to work with non-government, government, and private sector firms to improve the effectiveness of development policy through research projects that employ experimental methodologies. The course will provide participants with the knowledge and training to scientifically test the accountability of development programs. Participants will walk away with a new understanding of the broad issues related to randomized evaluation as well as the specific requirements necessary to implement their own successful ones. For more information on the executive education program, and to email an expression of interest or application, please go to http://www.povertyactionlab.org/education/ *** 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”.
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