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2010 Annual Conference and General Assembly
from 05/10/2010 to 09/10/2010
Accra, Ghana
From October 5th to 9th, 2010, the Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) will organize its 9th Annual Conference on the theme "Access to Financial Services: Reaching the Poor and Excluded"....
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workshops reports
Since its inception, AFMIN has organised in collaboration with its strategic partners workshops and events in different topics as well as varied each other.
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Microfinance Regulation and Supervision
Regulating and supervising microfinance has become increasingly important as microfinance activities have grown throughout the world. In the past, microfinance was typically provided by a limited number of semi-formal and informal actors, including not-for-profit institutions, cooperatives, moneylenders, and other informal groups. Today, microfinance providers...
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Savings
Historically, MFIs have offered mainly credit to a relatively narrow range of microentrepreneurs whose income hovers near their country's poverty line. Today, there is growing recognition that not all low income people are necessarily entrepreneurs, but all people need and use a variety of financial services, including savings.
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MicroInsurance
Microinsurance refers to insurance designed to protect under-served low-income people against specific perils in exchange for low premiums. The emphasis on protecting the poor highlights the need that microinsurance should be responsive to the risks the poor are most exposed to. The emphasis on...
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Technologies and Innovations
Technology can reduce transaction costs and improve transparency in delivering financial services, both of which can translate into increased access and lower costs for many lower-income clients. Streamlined and automated processes allow financial institutions to extend services to harder-to-reach and more costly clientele by replacing people and branches with point-of-sale (POS)...
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Social Performance
Social performance, or the social bottom line, is about making an organization's social mission a reality. The Social Performance Task Force defines social performance as: "The effective translation of an institution's social mission into practice in line with accepted social values that relate to serving larger numbers of poor and excluded people; improving...
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Rural and Agricultural Finance
The majority of the world’s poor live in rural areas. Yet most lack access to the range of financial services they need. Financial institutions seeking to work in rural areas face numerous constraints, such as poor infrastructure, dispersed demand, price and yield risks, and collateral limitations. Moreover, the main products of many microfinance institutions—short-term working...
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Consumer Protection
Consumer Protection is a phrase used to describe any activity that helps MFI customers understand and assert their rights. Examples of consumer protection initiatives include ethical statements, codes of conduct or financial education. Consumer protection initiatives must be institution-wide and public, as opposed to marketing activities or internal...
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