Boulder/IDS Course Announcement: Integrating Microfinance in Development Programs
Date :
2007-04-16
Kind :
Training
Description :
*New Course Announcement*
Integrating Microfinance
Monday 16 - Friday 20 April 2007
Learn to effectively integrate microfinance in your development programming.
New for 2007, Integrating Microfinance is a short course for busy development professionals - aimed at specialists in agriculture, health, education, or livelihoods who need to understand microfinance for their work.
Explore the role of microfinance in the lives of poor families
Identify how and where microfinance is effective - and where it is not
Understand how to fit microfinance into your programs
Learn where to go for support to successfully implement best practice principles
Delivered by two leading institutes in this area, it brings the microfinance expertise of the Boulder Institute to the development and poverty focus of the Institute of Development Studies. The program offers a range of electives to meet participants' needs including:
Social protection and microfinance
Serving the ultra poor
Linking microfinance to health and education
Agricultural microfinance
HIV/AIDS and microfinance
Community-based savings groups
Microfinance in conflict-affected areas
Microfinance and natural resource management
IDS' multidisciplinary development team will be joined by a selection of faculty from among the most experienced academics, practitioners, policy advisors, and agency staff in microfinance. The program will include Naila Kabeer(IDS), Syed Hashemi(CGAP),Susan Johnston(University of Bath), Anton Simanowitz(IDS), Martin Greeley(IDS), Delores McLaughlin(Plan International), Doug Pearce(DFID), Hugh Allen(VSL Associates) and as Director of the Program, Robert Peck Christen(Boulder Institute of Microfinance).
Integrating Microfinance will be offered at the IDS' campus in Brighton, Sussex, UK from 16-20 April 2007.
IDS
The Institute of Development Studies is a leading global organisation for research, teaching and communications on international development. IDS was founded in 1966 and enjoys an international reputation based on the quality of its work and its commitment to applying academic skills to real world challenges. Its purpose is to understand and explain the world, and to try to change it - to influence as well as to inform.
Boulder Institute of Microfinance
The Boulder Institute of Microfinance is a non-profit organization founded in 2004, to create a platform for dialogue and critical thinking in microfinance. Best known for the well-known Boulder MFT program offered in Turin each year, it has an alumni network of over 2200 practitioners from 135 countries, and has led the field in best practice training for microfinance since 1995.
