Upcoming Events (updated 10.2.08)

MicroLINKS Speaker’s Corner
Microfinance and Enterprise Development: effective tools to eradicate extreme poverty?
October 14-16, 2008
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Hosted by POWG, practitioners will explore how microfinance and enterprise development can reach very poor households (living below $1/day).

• What are effective approaches to reach large numbers of very poor people?
• How can financial services and products tailored to the needs of very poor clients?
• What kind of other services do very poor people need to meet their basic needs and to fully take advantage of MED services?

2008 SEEP Annual Conference
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Working group meeting (SEEP members only)

• Discuss the state of Poverty Outreach and the SEEP Network’s role in addressing that challenge.
• Set a new POWG agenda for 2009

AGM Plenary: Poverty Outreach and Microfinance – Do Microfinance and Microenterprise Development Achieve Poverty Outreach?

• This session is open to all Conference attendees

Working Group Agenda

POWG always works to ensure that practitioners’ voices are heard during the development and testing phases of tools and the research, writing, and review of all learning products.

In 2007, POWG undertook to write twelve case studies looking at organizations’ poverty outreach funded by a grant from the United States Agency for International Development through a grant from Pact, Inc.

Building on the Speaker’s Corner and SEEP Annual Conference plenary session (see information above), the working group members will review the draft findings from these 12 case studies. POWG members will decide to publish these findings and/or recommend additional learning to take place during 2009.

Publications

Microfinance and Non-Financial Services for Very Poor People