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Sam Daley-Harris steps down as Director of Microcredit Summit Campaign
Submitted by mffocus1 on Tue, 08/23/2011 - 13:27
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Microfinance Focus, August 23, 2011: Sam Daley-Harris, founder of RESULTS Educational Fund, and the Microcredit Summit Campaign will retire from his post on December 31, 2011, a report from Microcredit Summit Secretariat revealed. RESULTS Educational Fund is a citizen lobby focused on creating the political will to end hunger and the worst aspects of poverty. Daley-Harris co-founded the Microcredit Summit Campaign in 1995 with John Hatch, founder of FINCA and Muhammad Yunus, Grameen Bank’s founder.
Daley-Harris’s reason behind his choice to step down is to start a new organization, called the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation (CCET), in 2012. "After dedicating 15 years of my life to RESULTS and about the same to the Microcredit Summit Campaign,” Daley-Harris said, “it felt like it was time to look to what was next. So I asked myself this question, 'What have I done that lights me up the most and yet is least adopted, least realized in the world. It was obvious that that was my work to create structures of support that would inspire and empower citizens and allow them to create champions in the media and in Congress for the end of poverty and cleaning up the environment. I want to bring the work we initiated at RESULTS to other organizations through the Center for Citizen Empowerment and Transformation (CCET)."
Daley-Harris' last stint with the Microcredit Summit Campaign will be to organize the Global Microcredit Summit during November 14-17, 2011 in Valladolid, Spain. More than 2,000 delegates over 100 countries are expected to attend the summit.
Daley-Harris has received a number of awards for his highly esteemed service. The awards include The Temple Award for Creative Altruism from the Institute of Noetic Sciences (1995), the Caring Award from the Caring Institute (1997), the Innovator Award from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University (2003), the Elliott Black Award from the American Ethical Union (2003), and the Susan M. Davis Lifetime Achievement Award from the Grameen Foundation (2007).
The new Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign will be announced in September 2011.
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Why not Go on to be responsible for the Result in 2015
The MicroCreditSummit Joined the Millennium Development Goals of the United Nations committing itself to halving poverty by 2015. This was MCS's and Mr. Daley's main goal - halving poverty by 2015 with micro-credits in particular to the poorest women.
I would have wished that Mr. Daley continued until 2015 and share responsibility for the results and take part in the debate whether socio-political loans to groups of the poorest women has contributed to sustained poverty alleviation.
By 2015 people, and certainly governments and charities will have forgotten Sam Daley, that MCS was his idea and depended on his strong commitment, including mobilising politicians, cultural stars and charitable money.
Really too bad, Peter
BSD City, Indonesia
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