Monday, November 14, 2011 - 14:30-16:00hrs
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| Beyond ‘Ethical’ Financial Services: Developing a Seal of Excellence for Poverty Outreach and Transformation in Microfinance |
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Paper |
| Chair: |
Manuel Méndez del Río Piovich, President, Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Spain |
| Author: |
Frances Sinha, Director, EDA Rural Systems, India |
| Panelists: |
Isabel Cruz hernandez, President, Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Finanzas Rurales (FOROLACFR), Mexico |
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Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti |
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Christopher Dunford, Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger, USA |
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John de Wit, Managing Director, The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF), South Africa |
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 9:00-10:30hrs
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| Challenges to the Field and Solutions: Over-Indebtedness, Client Drop-Outs, Unethical Collection Practices, Exorbitant Interest Rates, Mission Drift, Poor Governance Structures and More |
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Exeutive Summary |
| Chair: |
Shari Berenbach, Director of Microenterprise Development, USAID, USA |
| Author: |
Anton Simanowitz, Founder, Imp-Act Consortium, United Kingdom |
| Panelist: |
Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), USA |
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Wolday Amha, Director, AEMFI, Ethiopia |
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Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan |
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Fabiola Céspedes Quiroga, Social Performance Coordinator, FOROLACFR, Bolivia |
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Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 14:00-15:30hrs
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| Social Business and Microfinance: Building Partnerships with Corporations and Other Entities To Speed the End of Poverty |
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| Chair: |
Dª Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Spain |
| Author: |
Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh |
| Panelists: |
Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO, Groupe Danone, France |
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Dr. Albert López Martínez, General Director, Microbank, Spain |
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 9:00-10:30hrs
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| A Guided Inquiry and Discussion: Where Do You Want the Field to Be in 10 Years or More and What Could You or Your Institution Do to Get Us There? |
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| Author: |
Dave Ellis, President, The Brande Foundation, USA |
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 14:00-15:30hrs
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| Presentation of Institutional Action Plans (IAP) |
| Panelists: |
Sir Fazle Abed, Founder, BRAC, Bangladesh |
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Gauthier Dieudonne, Director, CLM/ Ti-kredi Program, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti |
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Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 16:00-17:30hrs
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| Using Microfinance Plus Agricultural Services to Improve Rural Livelihoods and Food Security |
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| Authors: |
Shameran Abed (Presenter), Program Head for Microfinance, BRAC, Bangladesh |
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Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA, USA |
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Dr. Mahabub Hossain, Executive Director, BRAC and BRAC International, Bangladesh |
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Rod Dubitsky, Executive Vice President, PIMCO Advisory Group, USA |
| Panelist: |
Claudio González Vega, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, USA |
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| Towards Reinventing Microfinance through Solving the “Last Mile Problem”: Bringing Clean Energy Solutions and Actionable Information to the Poor |
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| Author: |
Alex Counts, President & CEO, Grameen Foundation, USA |
| Chair: |
Ranya Abdel-Baki, Executive Director, Sanabel - The Microfinance Network of Arab Countries, Egypt |
| Panelists: |
Prakash Bakshi, Chairman, National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), India |
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Nicola Armacost, Managing Director and Co-founder, ARC Finance, USA |
