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You are invited to the Microfinance Dialogues 2010: University Meets Microfinance @ Leibniz Universität Hannover.
Experts of Oikocredit, Cerise, Planet Rating and PlaNet Finance and students and professors from University of Hohenheim, University of Frankfurt, Tilburg University, University of Sheffield, Charles University Prague and University of Wageningen present and discuss their findings in the field of impact assessment and social performance. The workshop is supported by InWent gGmbH, through funds of the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Date: June 17th, 3:00 – 6:30 pm: “Approaching the subject” and June 18th 2010, 11:30 am – 5:30 pm: “Deep Dive”
(Participation on 1 or 2 days possible)
Location: Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany
Keynote Speech: William Pariente, MIT Poverty Action Lab / Université Catholique de Louvain: Recent developments in the impact and mechanisms of microfinance
The topic: As microfinance has grown in scope and scale critical voices are increasingly on the rise. On the one hand, skeptics question the impact of access to financial services on income, wealth and well-being; others project that with the increasing emphasis on financial performance Microfinance Institutions might drift from their original social mission. Researchers and practitioners meet the criticism by developing new impact evaluation methodologies and implementing management approaches which focus on maintaining a balance between financial and social performance.
Registration: Please register for the Workshop by June 2nd at www.universitymeetsmicrofinance.eu. You can participate on both days (June 17th and June 18th) or only on the second day (June 18th). For students a participation fee of 20 EUR applies. For other participants a fee of 40 EUR applies. You will receive all organizational details upon registration. The fee includes the participation in the “Annual International Conference of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economics Association), Research Committee on Development Economics” which starts in the evening of June 18th and ends with a conference dinner on June 19th. The conference programme is available at www.uni-goettingen.de/ael. Local organizers are Lukas Menkhoff and Oliver Gloede, members of the Development Economics Research Group at the Leibniz Universität Hannover.
University Meets Microfinance (UMM) is a programme co-financed by the European Commission. It was initiated by PlaNet Finance and is carried out in collaboration with students and professors from 14 European universities with the support of Freie Universität Berlin, ESCEM, Ernst & Young, Capgemini Italia and Sanofi-Aventis.
University Meets Microfinance @ Leibniz Universität Hannover
For more information: www.universitymeetsmicrofinance.eu