Source: The News (Pakistan).
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KARACHI, November 2 – The registration of delegates has opened for Pakistan’s first international conference on Small & Medium Enterprises (SME) and Microfinance with special emphasis on ‘Rural and Urban Outreach Initiatives & Challenges’ to be held on November 17 & 18, 2007 in Karachi.
The 2-day conference has been divided into various tracks and sessions, which include: Track 1 (SME) on Policy & Regulatory Framework; Track 2 (Microfinance) on Engineering Growth – Market Dynamics; Track 3 (SME) on Empowering Women for Developmental Change; Track 4 (Microfinance) on Outreach v/s Sustainability – The Balancing Act; Track 5 (SME) on CSR Reach-Out and SME, the International Perspective; and Track 6 (Microfinance & SME) on Human Capital, Manpower & Skills Development.
Confirmed personalities at the conference include Senator Nisar A Memon, Barrister Shahida Jamil, Kamal Hyat, Salman Burney (chairpersons), also a group of elite panelists include, Dr Rashid Bajwa, Detlef Kuester, Nilofer Bakhtiar, Salim Raza, Shandana Khan, Ghalib Nishtar, Ozair A Hanafi, Saquib Mohyuddin, Nadeem Hussain, Muhammad Saleem Umer, Shireen Naqvi and Prof. S B Hasan.
The Partner-Organisations of the conference include, Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund (PPAF); Mobilink, Khushhali Bank Limited, Pak-Oman Microfinance Bank Limited, DHL and UNISAME. The conference is expected to attract a large turnout of delegates.
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