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This year, The SEEP Network assembled a talented and renowned team of microfinance

and microenterprise experts to take notes at each plenary and workshop on Wednesday,

Thursday and Friday of the 2008 SEEP Annual Conference. 

 

The SEEP Scribes

  • Finance Track (sponsored by J.P. Morgan): Nicole Pasricha (MEDA), Eileen Miamidian (CHF International), and Tala Abbasi (CHF International)
  • Poverty Outreach Track: Jan Maes (Independent consultant), Sabina Rogers (The SEEP Network)
  • Value Chain Development Track: Lendell Foan (Making Cents), Chuck Waterfield (MicroFinance Transparency)
  • Social Performance Track: Gary Woller (Woller and Associates)
  • Tools Track: Christian Pennotti (AED)
  • Poverty Outreach Plenary (Wednesday): Brian Beard (The IRIS Center)
  • Keynote Plenary (Thursday): Ruth Dueck Mbeba (MEDA)
  • MicroPlace Plenary (Friday am): Nicole Pasricha (MEDA)
  • Mainstreaming Sustainability Plenary (Friday pm): Chuck Waterfield (MicroFinance Transparency)

 

Our thanks go out also to The Foundation for Development Cooperation (FDC) for undertaking the arduous

task of editing and formatting the 24 sets of notes produced from the plenaries and workshops.  SEEP especially

recognizes Lourdes Gomes and Veronica Hynes for their work.

Read short bios for the SEEP Scribes and FDC’s editors

 

Finance Track (Sponsor: J.P. Morgan)
- Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Banana Skins [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00pm : How to Say Goodbye  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm : Innovations in Urban Housing Microfinance [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Achieving Network Sustainability with Strategic Planning and Financial Management [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Poverty Outreach Track
- Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Beyond Microfinance [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00pm : Hunger Crisis [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm : Microfinance and the Poorest [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Reducing Missed Opportunities  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Value Chain Development Track
- Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Measuring the Economic Impact of Community-Based Ecotourism Projects throughout the Value Chain  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00pm : Financing Value Chains for Pro Poor Growth  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm : Market Development Mitigating Conflict  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Business Planning for Sustainability and Scale-Up  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Social Performance Track
- Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Consumer Protection in Practice  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00pm : How Can Networks Support their MFI Partners' Quest for Social Performance Management?  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm : Consumer Protection "Beyond Codes"  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Putting the "Social" into "Performance Management"  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Tools Track
- Thursday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Business Process Management  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 1:30 - 3:00pm : Effective Approaches to Youth Entrepreneurship and Development [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 3:30 - 5:00pm : Enhancing Management Capacity  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 11:00 - 12:30pm : Practitioners as Knowledge Workers  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Plenaries
- Wednesday, 3:30 - 5:30pm : Poverty Outreach and Microfinance [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Thursday, 9:00 - 10:30am : Keynote Plenary with Tor G. Gull, Director of Oikocredit  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 9:00 - 10:30am : Marketplace for the Retail Microfinance Investors [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]
- Friday, 1:30 - 3:30pm : Mainstreaming Sustainability  [notes: HTML - DOC - PPT]

 

Pre-Events

- Tuesday, 9:00am to 5:00pm: FIELD Day 2008: Getting to How Link
- Wednesday: Social Investors Forum on Social Performance Link
- Friday: Youth Enterprise & Financial Services: What’s New and How Does this Affect Your Work? Link