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Details: European Microfinance Week 2015: Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Development
European Microfinance Week (EMW) 2015 will be held from 18 – 20 November at the Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg-Grund.
European Microfinance Week is the major annual event of the microfinance industry hosting high level and in-depth discussions by all sectors of the European microfinance community (banks and financial institutions, government agencies, NGOs, consulting firms, researchers and universities) working in developing countries. Organised by the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), one of the industry’s premier networks for knowledge sharing, and supported by the Luxembourg Government, EMW welcomes over 400 top professionals in the microfinance industry each year, from several dozen countries.
The theme of the 2015 European Microfinance Week is Financial Inclusion for Sustainable Development, and will feature a broad range of plenaries, workshops and smaller working group meetings.
Featured speakers include: Isabelle Guérin, Microfinance in Crisis project; Bob Summers, MicroCapital; Tanmay Chetan, Agora Microfinance; Klaus Tischhauser, responsAbility; Adalbert Winkler, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management; Timothy Lyman, CGAP; Laura Foose, SPTF; Loïc De Cannière, INCOFIN; Christophe Bochatay, Triple Jump; David Woods, Oikocredit; Stewart McCullogh, VisionFund International; Cécile Lapenu, Cerise; Alex Silva, Calmeadow; Sachin Vankalas, LuxFLAG; Martine Schommer, Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs; Susy Cheston, CFI; James Militzer, Next Billion; Yekbun Gurgoz, CCAC/UNEP; Michaël de Groot, Rabobank Foundation; Véronique Faber, Microinsurance Network; Grzegorz Galusek, Microfinance Center; Josien Sluijs, NpM …..
PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 18 November 2015
10:00 - 13:00 University Meets Microfinance Action Group
11:00 - 13:00 Microfinance and Environment Action Group (by invitation only)
11:00 - 13:00 SPTF - e-MFP Outcomes Action Group (by invitation only)
14:00 - 16:00 Digital Innovations Action Group open session
14:00 - 16:00 Youth Financial Inclusion Action Group (by invitation only)
14:00 - 17:00 Workshop / training on Green Microfinance
16:00 - 17:00 Digital Innovations Action Group (closed session, by invitation only)
17:00 - 18:30 e-MFP General Meeting of Members followed by UMM Award Ceremony
17:00 - 18:30 Networking opportunity in the Agora
19:00 - 21:00 Cocktail reception
Thursday, 19 November 2015
09:00 - 10:30 Assessing limits: towards sustainable growth in microfinance
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Assessing impact in microfinance: new perspectives (title tbc)
11:00 - 12:30 Convenient products for inconvenient times: the role of financial services in conflict situations (title tbc)
11:00 - 12:30 Does financial inclusion foster financial stability?
11:00 - 12:30 The role of apexes in financial inclusion (title tbc)
12:30 - 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Financial services to increase resilience to natural disasters
14:00 - 15:30 How MIVs can stay relevant in maturing markets
14:00 - 15:30 Managing social performance Session 1: SPI4-ALINUS
14:00 - 15:30 Towards the implementation of sustainable forward-looking risk management: challenges and lessons learned
15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:15 Facilitating access to basic services through digital innovations in emerging markets
15:45 - 17:15 Managing social performance Session 2: Complying with environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards
15:45 - 17:15 Successes and failures in MIV governance: the case of Africap (title tbc)
17:15 - 18:00 Bus transfer to the European Investment Bank
18:30 - 20:00 6th European Microfinance Award Ceremony (at the European Investment Bank) followed by cocktail reception
Friday, 20 November 2015
09:00 - 10:30 Sustainable Development Goals and financial inclusion
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:30 Green Microfinance in Latin America and Caribbean (LAC): translating successes abroad
11:00 - 12:30 Implementing innovation in inclusive finance: the network approach (title tbc)
11:00 - 12:30 MFIs and agricultural credit and insurance: does it have to be an unhappy marriage?
11:00 - 12:30 More inclusive finance for youth: scalable and sustainable delivery models for financial and non-financial services
11:00 - 12:30 Regulation and capacity building for digital financial services (title tbc)
12:30 - 14:00 Networking Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 A focus on farmers: solutions for bundling finance and training to meet smallholder needs
14:00 - 15:30 Clean cooking options to decrease mortality and mitigate climate change and air pollution
14:00 - 15:30 Digital financial services to empower the poor: success stories (title tbc)
14:00 - 15:30 Financial inclusion for sustainable development: What can networks do?
15:30 - 16:00 Closing remarks: Anne Contreras, e-MFP Chair
16:00 - 17:00 Closing Drink
Venue: Abbaye de Neumunster in Luxembourg-Grund
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Price: Registration fee: Regular rate: €625.00; Individual Member: €250.00; Students rate (on request): €100.00; Payable before 8 November 2015.
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