Event Name: Interactive Launch of the Microinsurance Compendium, Volume II
Event Date: July 3, 2012, 16:00 – 18:30
Event Location: International Labour Organization Library, Geneva, Switzerland, and Online
Category: Events
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: 2012 CGAP Microfinance Photo Contest Accepting Entries through September 3
CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor), a US-based policy and research center dedicated to facilitating the provision of financial access to poor people, recently opened its annual photo contest and seeks entries of original images that capture the impact of microfinance.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Insurers Launch Global Insurance Principles at Rio+20, Brazil
United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative (UNEP FI) launched the Principles for Sustainable Insurance (the ‘PSI Initiative’) on the eve of the Rio+20 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Global Sustainable Finance Network Presents “Global Sustainable Finance Conference 2012: ‘Greening Financial Institutions’”, July 5 – 6, 2012, Karlsruhe, Germany
Event Name: Global Sustainable Finance Conference 2012: Greening Financial Institutions
Event Date: July 5 – July 6, 2012
Event Location: Karlsruhe, Germany
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Call for Papers: Impact and Policy Conference, Bangkok, August 30 to September 1, 2012, Hosted by Asian Development Bank, Innovations for Poverty Action, Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab
Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), a US-based nonprofit research organization, has issued a call for papers for researchers interested in having their papers included in the Impact and Policy Conference: Evidence in Governance, Financial Inclusion, and Entrepreneurship to be held in Bangkok August 30 – September 1, 2012.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Opal Financial Group Presents “Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum: ‘The Race for Returns’”, July 23 – 25, 2012, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Event Name: Family Office & Private Wealth Management Forum: The Race for Returns
Event Date: July 23 – July 25, 2012
Event Location: Hyatt Regency, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Oliver Kinross Presents “Cards, Payments & Mobile Banking Africa Summit 2012 and The Mobile Banking Africa Awards 2012”, June 11 – 12, 2012, Johannesburg, South Africa
Event Name: Cards, Payments & Mobile Banking Africa Summit 2012 and The Mobile Banking Africa Awards 2012
Event Date: June 11 – June 12, 2012
Event Location: Johannesburg, South Africa
MICROFINANCE EVENT: IBC Asia Presents 6th Annual “Mobile Financial Services Asia Pacific Summit 2012”, September 10 – 12, 2012, The Philippines
Event Name: Mobile Financial Services Asia Pacific Summit 2012
Event Date: September 10 – September 12, 2012
Event Location: Manila, The Philippines
MICROFINANCE EVENT: First Affirmative Financial Network Presents 23rd Annual “SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing”, October 2 – 4, 2012, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA
Event Name: 2012 SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing
Event Date: October 2 – October 4, 2012
Event Location: Mohegan Sun Conference Center, Uncasville, Connecticut, USA
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: World Council of Credit Unions’ Young Credit Union People (WYCUP) Scholarship Applications Due June 1, 2012
The World Council of Credit Unions’ Young Credit Union People (WYCUP) Scholarship Program recently announced the agenda for its four-day program to take place in Gdansk, Poland, from July 15, 2012 – July 18, 2012.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: European Marketing Research Center (EMRC) Presents “African Finance & Investment Forum 2012: Financial Inclusion through SMEs & Cooperatives”, June 17 – 19, 2012, Utrecht and Floriade – Venlo, Netherlands
Event Name: African Finance & Investment Forum 2012: Financial Inclusion through SMEs & Cooperatives
Event Date: June 17 – June 19, 2012
Event Location: Rabobank Headquarters, Utrecht and Floriade – Venlo, Netherlands
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Convergences 2015 Presents Fifth Annual “World Forum for the Millennium Development Goals”, September 19 – 21, 2012, Paris, France
Event Name: World Forum for the Millennium Development Goals
Event Date: September 19 – September 21, 2012
Event Location: Palais Brongniart and Hôtel de Ville de Paris, Paris, France
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: International Labor Organization Training Centre Offers Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific/European Union (ACP/EU) Microfinance Programme Scholarships to Policymakers To Attend 2012 Boulder Microfinance Training Programme
The Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific/European Union (ACP/EU) Microfinance Programme, a multinational effort investing in microfinance in 80 countries, is offering twenty scholarships for the 2012 Boulder Microfinance Training Programme, which will be held in Turin, Italy from July 16 to August 3.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: Nominations Open for Paeng Awards to be Given to Five Microfinance Institutions in the Philippines
The Rafael B Buenaventura Microfinance Resource Center Foundation (RBB Foundation), an institution in the Philippines that aims to develop sustainable microfinance through capacity building, will honor five microfinance institutions (MFIs) for their pioneering initiatives and exemplary work in its first awards ceremony on November 30, 2012.
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: MasterCard Foundation Scholarship Applications Due May 4 for Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program, New Hampshire, USA
MasterCard Foundation, a Canadian affiliate of US-based payments firm MasterCard that aims to promote financial inclusion and education in developing countries, is offering an undisclosed number of scholarships for microfinance practitioners to attend the Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program (SMDP), which will address a “livelihoods approach” to microfinance, enterprise and economic development from June 18 to June 29, 2012.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Triple Bottom Line Investing (TBLI) Presents “TBLI Conference Europe 2012”, November 8 – 9, 2012, Zurich, Switzerland
Event Name: TBLI Conference Europe 2012
Event Date: November 8 – November 9, 2012
Event Location: Swissôtel Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
MICROCAPITAL BRIEF: 87 MFIs Earn 2011 Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX) Social Performance Reporting Award
Microfinance Information Exchange (MIX), a US-based nonprofit provider of data and analysis on microfinance institutions (MFIs), funders, networks and service providers dedicated to serving the financial needs of low-income clients, has released the names of 87 MFIs that have earned its winners of the Social Performance Reporting Award.
MICROFINANCE EVENT: Absolute Portfolio Management’s “Developments and New Opportunities in Microfinance” Webinar, May 9, 2012
Event Name: Developments and New Opportunities in Microfinance
Event Date: May 9, 2012, 2:00 – 2:30 GMT
Event Location: Online