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Microfinance has become very famous in the past decade and has boosted among the public interest on poverty reduction tools. However, if enough attention is being brought to building capacity in the sector to raise awareness of policy makers and improve MFIs’ sustainability and develop their outreach; and if an impressive amount of specialized literature is available; few training are being offered to those individuals that are not invited or do not have the relevant profile to attend these specialized workshops or seminars.
This course’s objective is to provide to a broad audience of non-specialists an overview of what microfinance is, how it works, and what have been the major findings and lessons learned in the past decades in the sector.
Participants in this course will include: government officials, practitioners from the private and public sectors, NGOs, representatives of civil society organizations with a common interest or being involved in strategies for economic growth and poverty alleviation. Academics, researchers, journalists are also invited.
The course is designed to be highly interactive and is organized around a series of six modules (video-conferences) of two and a half hour each and will feature a combination of experts and practitioners from the microfinance sector. In addition, it will offer participants a web access to selected web based papers/documents/case studies to prepare themselves, work on exercises or just for self-learning.
A web based environment will be made available to participants to access and download papers as well as case studies. All sites will have interactive connectivity with HQ which will enable the participants to ask their questions directly to the speakers. Each module will feature one –two international experts as well as a regional practitioner.
An online discussion will be opened to enable participants to develop further their questions.
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