Workshops for Global Microcredit Summit 2011 announced

Microfinance Focus, Aug 23, 2010: Global Microfinance Summit which brings together microcredit practitioners, advocates, donor agencies, international financial institutions and others involved with microcredit to promote best practices will be held in Spain from November 14-17, 2011 in Valladolid, Spain.

The Summit’s goal is to ensure that 175 million of the world’s poorest families, especially women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services and to help 100 million families rise above the US $1 per day threshold by 2015.

Workshops titles, which will be organized during the Summit, have recenlty been announced. These include the following:

The Debate on Outreach and Impact of Microfinance: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It

Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty and Catalyze Its Transformational Dimension: Conversations with Industry Pioneers to Explore the Soul of Microfinance Microfinance

Product Innovations, such as Micro-Leasing: New Offerings that Maximize Benefits to Clients, MFIs, and their Communities

How Have Micro-Franchises Improved Income Opportunities and the Lives of Community Members, and How Can MFIs Make Them Available to Their Clients

What Have we Learned about the Most Effective Ways to Use Micro-Insurance to Reduce Vulnerability: Health, Life, Disaster and More

Why Integrating Microfinance, Health Education, and Other Forms of Health Protection is Good for Your Clients and Good for Your MFI, and How Can You Incorporate It?

Catapulting Youth Livelihoods: Finance-Plus Strategies to Improve Attitudes and Behaviors, Provide Hope and Opportunity

Empowering the Children of Microentrepreneurs with Primary and Secondary Education, College Scholarships and Loans, and Financial Services for Their Businesses

When Clients Grow Old: Microfinance Strategies and Products that Address the Needs of the Elderly

From Micro- to Small and Medium Enterprise: How do You Grow with Your Clients, Especially the Women, or Allow Them to Graduate to Institutions that Can Meet Their Expanding Needs?

Examples of How Technology has Worked for the Clients and for MFIs, Especially for Those Living and Working in the Hardest to Reach Areas

What is the Cutting Edge for Microfinance in Remote, Hard to Reach Areas?

Women are Useful to Microfinance: How Can We Make Microfinance More Useful to Women?

Successes in Inclusion of People Affected by HIV and AIDS: How to Make Sure that No One is Left Out

Best Practices in Community Managed Savings Groups for Successfully and Sustainably Reaching the Very Poor

A Deeper Look at Programs that Work with the Ultra-Poor: From Safety Net Programs to Other Innovations

How Can Microfinance Contribute to Restoring Dignity and Transforming Lives in Urban Slums?

How Can Microfinance for Housing Catalyze Slum Improvements and New Settlements?

How Can Microfinance Programs Help the Struggle Against Social Problems such as Begging, Child Labor, Prostitution, Violence Against Women, Criminality, Gangs and Drug Addiction?

Financial Literacy Programs that Work for the Clients and for the MFI

Remittances and Microfinance: Using Remittances for Productive Investment that Contribute to Sustainable Community Development

Climate change affects microfinance: how are operations influenced and what can MFIs do to increase energy efficiency and use of renewable energy and to improve access to water and sanitation?

Learning from Real World Experiences: Lessons Learned in Using Microfinance in Post Conflict and Post Disaster Situations

Microcredit and Job Creation

Microfinance as a Vehicle to Create a Platform for Ownership of Financial Institutions by the Poor

Process of Designing and Implementing a National Strategy for Financial Inclusion: Challenges and Lessons Learned

What is the Low-Bar and What is the High-Bar on Client Protection?

Best Practices for National and Regional Microfinance Networks

Motivating Your Board of Directors to Actively Promote and Deepen Your Social Mission

Why Invest in People? How to Develop Skilled and Committed MFI Staff in Order to Reach Strategic Objectives

Transforming from NGO to Regulated MFI while Maintaining Your Commitment to Empowering the Poor: A Step by Step Process

Why Managing for Social Performance is More Important than Just Measuring It, and How Can MFIs Best Use These Insights?

What is the Problem: Getting an Empowering Regulatory Framework that Allows Taking and On-lending Deposits and Truly Works for MFIs, their Clients and the End of Poverty

Finding Solutions to the Currency Risk Challenge for MFIs, Investors and Donor Agencies

Sharing the Lessons Learned on Strengthening MFIs so that They can Weather the Challenges of the Current and Future Financial Crises

Is Transparency Enough: What Is Fair and Ethical When It Comes to Interest Rates in Microfinance?

Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): The Field’s Salvation or Downfall?

What Can Mobile Banking Do to Advance the Field, and What Can It Not Do?

Branchless Banking: Is It Living Up to the Hype as a Means to Reduce Costs for Clients while Offering a Variety of Services?

Microcredit and Crop Agriculture: New Technologies and Other Innovations to Address Food Insecurity Among the Poor

Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments and Mechanisms for Commercial and Emerging MFIs: From Funds to the Web

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