Event Name: United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Speaker’s Corner 37: Microfinance and Energy: Scaling Up Energy Access Through Enterprise-Based Approaches and Innovative Financing
Event Date: May 11 to May 13, 2010
Event Location: Online forum
Event Website: http://microlinks.kdid.org/events/speakers-corner-37-microfinance-and-energy-scaling-energy-access-through-enterprise-based-app
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Cost: Free
Summary of Event: This online discussion, held through three days, will serve as a primer for the mutual development of clean energy and microfinance.
Background on the Organizer: microLINKS (learning, information and knowledge sharing) was founded by USAID as a means to maximize the effect of USAID microenterprise programs. microLINKS hosts Speaker’s Corner, a monthly speaker series on various microfinance-themed topics, as well as providing a library of relevant resources.
Event Themes and Discussion Topics:
- Interaction of microfinance and clean energy
- How the financial crisis will affect the interest of the microfinance community in clean energy
- Financing clean energy in developing markets
About the Presenters:
Jennye Greene is a program associate at E+Co, an organization providing capital to African, Asian and Latin American clean energy enterprises.
Ellen Morris is the co-founder of Arc Finance, a nonprofit organization working to expand the financing of energy and water. Her work has focused on bridging the worlds of microfinance and energy.
Jacob Winiecki is the co-founder of Simpa Networks, a company intending to use mobile networks to make solar energy affordable in emerging markets.
Online Registration Address: You must first register for the microLINKS website: http://microlinks.kdid.org/user/register?destination=node%2F320
Upon registering and logging on, choose to join the Speaker’s Corner 37: Microfinance and Energy group.
For additional information you may contact: speakerscorner@microlinks.org (no phone number is available)
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