Paris Microfinance Network

Resources: Events

Paris MFN Events - Please join us for our next event in Paris. You can sign up to be notified of upcoming events by sending your email address to us.

The Paris Microfinance Network organises events in Paris for anyone interested in sharing ideas & experiences or learning about the Microfinance sector. Each event offers an industry-leading guest speaker and lot's of opportunity to network! Be sure and join us, send your email & stay informed of our upcoming events.

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Global Events - Find below microfinance, social development & philanthropic events.

Europe :

- The Boulder Microfinance Training Program, Sponsored by ILO International Training Centre - Turin, Italy, 21 Jul 2007 - 8 Aug 2008

The 14th annual Boulder MFT will be held again this year in Turin, offering a complete range of courses in English and in French. The program brings together professionals from all around the world for three weeks of dynamic debate and exchange. Boulder MFT is hosted by the ILO's International Training Centre, in a world-class facility on a beautiful campus. Affectionately known as ‘the Boulder program,’ the MFT is a pioneer in intensive ‘best practice’ training with an alumni network of over 2,200 practitioners. We strive to provide an unparalleled learning environment within a rich community of leaders from across the field of microfinance.

Courses offered will include an emphasis on ‘best practice’ program design issues as well as specific tools to achieve long-term financial sustainability and growth. Attendance is required for the entire three weeks to ensure participants receive the depth and breadth of experience conveyed by the MFT diploma.

- Integrating Microfinance in Development - September 1 - 5 2008, Sussex, UK

The training program hosted by Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex is offered to development professionals and specialists in Agriculture, Health, Education or Livelihoods who need to understand microfinance for their work. It is a short intensive program that will explore the role of microfinance in the lives of poor families, identify where and when it can be effective and understand how to fit it into development programming. The most experienced academics, researchers, practitioners and policy advisers associated with the Institute of Development Studies and the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, during the one week will offer their expertise in microfinance and development.

- The World Microfinance Forum - October 1 & 2, 2008 Geneva, Switzerland

Building Fair Financial Markets for All Profitable Investment Opportunities in Micro and Small Businesses

Conference outline :

- Content: How investors can unleash the potential of microfinance

- Guest country: China, the world’s largest market for microfinance?

- Audience: Principal investors, intermediaries, microfinance providers and public actors

- Format: Solid information, solid time to talk

Middle East :

- Sanabel 5th Annual Conference - May 2008, Tunisia

Africa :

- Microfinance West Africa - 29 Jul - 31 Jul 2008, Lagos, Nigeria

The goal of the Microfinance West Africa 2008 is to create a platform for microfinance stakeholders in West Africa to express their collective commitment to building a strong and inclusive microfinance sector and to increase capacity to all households in need of microfinance services through the development of a solid microfinance strategy and action plan.

Contact: Abiodun Olaniyi +234 802 3201920

jakolgate@gmail.com

- 13th Annual International Management Conference: Call for Papers - November 18 -20, 2008, Kampala, Uganda

This annual conference aims to promote and develop business and management education by creating a fora where business people, professionals and practicing managers in various fields meet and discuss pertinent issues that will facilitate economic growth. The event will be divided into three sections:

- A research symposium

- A doctoral symposium

- A business conference

Canada :

- Community Based Microfinance Certificate Course - September 8 -26, 2008, Canada

The course focuses on community-based microfinance initiatives that have significant potential, not only for broad outreach, but for improved leadership capacity and self-reliance with an emphasis on equity and asset-building as well as credit. It also explores governance, social intermediation, self-reliance, leadership and the combination of financial services with social programs such as health or education.

US :

- Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development: Micro and SME Finance in Theory and Practice - 17 Aug 2008 - 29 Aug 2008, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Financial Institutions for Private Enterprise Development (FIPED), organized by Harvard Kennedy School, is an intensive two-week executive education program, a practical guide to the sustainable provision of financial services for low-income households and micro, small and medium enterprises. The program covers microfinance and SME finance in the same program. It consists of core lectures, applied cases and practical exercises. Participants will undertake a structured series of intense negotiations via a set of role playing scenarios.

- Global Philanthropy Forum Conference - Financing Social Change: Leveraging Markets and Entrepreneurship - Apr 11- 13, 2007, Googleplex, Mountain View, CA

Bringing together philanthropists, social entrepreneurs, and other experts from around the world, the 6th Annual Global Philanthropy Forum Conference will explore philanthropic efforts to combat poverty, promote global health, and halt climate change by leveraging the power of markets and private enterprise.

Latin America :

- XI Inter-American Forum on Microenterprise - October 8 - 10, 2008, Greater Asuncion, Paraguay

The Inter-American Development Bank is celebrating the XI edition of the Microenterprise Forum generally known as Foromic. Panels will discuss topics such as technology, rural finance, housing, microinsurance, and will explore how to effectively reach more people with better, faster, and more affordable services to improve their businesses and their livelihoods. It provides opportunity to network, meet the principal leaders and industry representatives in microfinance, promote institution or business in the Exhibit Center, or set up a business meeting with clients and service providers.

- Microinsurance Conference 2008 - November 5 -7 2008, Cartagena, Columbia

Asia, Central Asia, India :

- Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008 July 28-30, 2008, Bali International Convention Center Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia

The Microcredit Summit Campaign and Gema PKM Indonesia will co-host the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008. The Summit will be the 12th conference in a series of global and regional summits organized by the Microcredit Summit Campaign. Over 1,000 delegates from more than 40 countries are expected to gather for the Summit.

- Azerbaijan Microfinance Conference - September 16-17, 2008, Baku, Azerbaijan

“Microfinance -10 Years of Best practice”

Azerbaijan Micro-finance Association (AMFA) will be organizing 2-days 4th Azerbaijan Micro-finance Conference titled “Microfinance-10 years of Best practice” at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Baku, Azerbaijan, on September 16-17, 2008. This Bi-annual Conference will be focused on discussion of best practice & challenges faced by microfinance practitioners, benchmarking microfinance performance, offering learning opportunities on innovative products in microfinance and provision of broad opportunities to access to private and social capital investors.

The Conference is expected to be opened by high level Government Officials of Azerbaijan such as Deputy Prime Minister, Chairman of the National Bank of Azerbaijan and Chairman of the State Parliament commission on Economic Issues.

The conference envision participaton of investors working in the region such as Blue Orchard, Oikocredit, Symbiotics, Developing World Markets, Trimple Jump, KIVA, MicroVest and others.

- International Workshop on Islamic Microfinance - October 11 & 12, 2008, Ahmedabad, India

A two day workshop covering themes such as Models of Islamic microfinance, Not-for-profit and for-profit modes, Country experiences & case studies and the Future of Islamic microfinance in India.