Monday, October 23, 2006

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – 5:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions

1. FRAME Training: Measuring Performance of Microfinance Institutions: A Framework for Reporting, Analysis, Monitoring, and Evaluation training (two-day training)
2. Value Chain Development for Marginalized Populations (two-day training)
   • Value Chain Development & Marginalized Population (PPT 1)
   • Value Chain Development & Marginalized Population (PPT 2)
   • ARC Sierra Leone Choosing a Sub-sector
   • ARC Sierra Leone Value Chain Analysis with a Financial Lens
   • ARC Sierra Leone Interventions
   • Mercy Corps Liberia Cowpea Sub-sector/VC Development
   • MEDA/ECDI Pakistan
   • MEDA/ECDI Pakistan Embroidered Garment Value Chain
3. Global Network Summit “Investing in the Future: Strategic Planning for Network Growth and Sustainability” (two days)
4. Investment Readiness Working Group
5. Social Performance Mapping Workshop (two days)

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – 5:30 pm: Concurrent Sessions

1. FRAME Training Continued
2. Value Chain Development for Marginalized Populations Continued
3. Global Network Summit Continued
4. Social Performance Mapping Workshop Continued

5:30 pm – 7:00 pm: Reception

Wednesday, October 25, 2006

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – 4:00 pm: Working Group Meetings

1. Financial Services Working Group
2. HIV/AIDS and Microenterprise Development Working Group Conference
3. Market Development Working Group
   • Introduction to the ILO Reader
   • Cutting Edge Practices in Market Development: Case Study
4. Poverty Outreach Working Group
5. Pro-Client Working Group Break Out
6. Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group
   • Financial and Performance Ratios to date
7. Social Performance Working Group Conference
8. Value Chain and the Poor Working Group
   • Value Chain and the Poor Working Group Meeting
   • Using Value Chain Analysis in Environment Work to Benefit Marginalized Populations Enterprise Works/VITA

5:30 pm – 9:00 pm: Reception, Dinner and Keynote Address

Thursday, October 26, 2006

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – 1:00 pm: SEEP Business Meeting

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Concurrent Workshops

1. Developing a Long – Term Sustainable Microfinance Sector in Nigeria: The Way Forward
   • Developing a Long-Term Sustainable Microfinance Sector in Nigeria: The Way Forward
2. Economic Support and Income Generation Programming for HIV and AIDS Impacted Communities
   • The Salvation Army’s Economic Response to HIV/AIDS in Kenya
   • Assisting AIDS Affected Households: The LEAD Approach in Zimbabwe
3. Employment Creation for Low Income Populations
   • Employment Creation
   • The Agora Model for Job Creation in Nicaragua
   • Generating Sustainable Employment through Agribusiness in Nicaragua
4. Network NGOs Unplugged: Deciding When to Exit
   • Opportunity International Network: Dissociation Policy for Member Organizations (PDF 1)
   • Opportunity International Network (PDF 2)
5. Building the Assets of the Poorest: Innovations in Savings Led Financial Services
   • Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) as a basis for Integral Human Development (IHD) among HIV/AIDS Affected Populations

4:00 pm – 5:30 pm: Concurrent Workshops

1. FRAME Open Mic
2. Practices and Lessons for Scaling Up Housing Microfinance: Investing in Basic Needs for the Majority
   • Getting to Scale in Housing Microfinance: Recent Learnings within ACCION’s Network
   • Poverty-Focused Housing Microfinance: Case Studies from Haiti, Rwanda and Vietnam
   • Lessons Learned Scaling Up Housing Microfinance
3. Integrated Responses to Address the Compounding Challenges of Poverty and HIV/AIDS
   • Integration approaches for East Africa
   • Microfinance & Prevention Strategies to Address HIV/AIDS The Experiences of SEF/RADAR
4. Environmental Sustainability as a Business Strategy
   • Environmental Sustainability as a Business Strategy (PPT 1)
   • Environmental Sustainability as a Business Strategy (PPT 2)
5. Raising Commercial Sources of Capital
   • SEEP Network’s Workshop on: Raising Commercial Sources of Capital
   • Raising Commercial Sources of Capital

5:30 am – 7:00 am: Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM), Reception and Annual General Meeting

Friday, October 27, 2006

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am – 10:30 am: Concurrent Workshops

1. Social Enterprise: A Market-Based Approach to Poverty Alleviation
   • Scojo Foundation
   • CARE Enterprise Partners
   • Social Enterprise: A Market Based Approach to Poverty Alleviation
2. Market Development in Crisis-Affected Environments — Not When, but How
   • CHF International’s Market Development in Crisis- Affected Environments: Colombia
   • Market Development in Post-Crisis Environments: American Refugee Committee’s experience
   • Market Development in Crisis-Affected Environments - Not When, but How: Findings from research by SEEP’s Market Development Working Group
   • Pro-Poor Market Development in Crisis Situations: Making Agricultural Markets Work for the Poor in North Darfur (Sudan)
3. How Networks Use Information Services to Improve Access to Funding
   • How Networks Use Information Services to Improve Access to Funding: The Mix
   • How Networks Use Information Services to Improve Access to Funding: AMFA
   • How Networks Use Information Services to Improve Access to Funding: PMN
4. Financial Education: A Tool for Moving from Poverty to Prosperity
   • Financial Education in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
   • Financial Education Win-Win for Clients and MFIs PPT
5. Bridging the Gap between Access to Energy and Microfinance
   • Bridging the Gap between Access to Energy and Microfinance

11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Concurrent Workshops

1. Customer Satisfaction: Learning How to Assess Network Relationships
   • Freedom from Hunger: Assessing Partner Satisfaction
   • Pro Mujer: Assessing our Network Relationships
2. Contract Farming — Benefits for MSE Farmers
   • Contract Farming Integrating Small Farmers into Productive Value Chains
3. Reaching Down Market so the Poor Can Go Up Market
   • Reaching Down Market so the Poor can go up Market The Guatemala Craft Sector Export Initiative (GSCEI) Aid to Artisans
   • Reaching Down Market so the Poor can go up Market Lessons from Asia
   • ARC Sierra Leone The LINKs Program
4. Credit and Consumers: The Current State of Affairs of Consumer Protection in Microfinance
5. Microfinance and Non Financial Services for Very Poor People: Promising Approaches from the Field
   • Microfinance and Non Financial Services for Very Poor People: Digging Deeper to Find Keys to Success
   • The People We Serve: Non Financial Services versus Financial Services
   • Strategies for reaching and serving very poor people
   • Savings and Internal Lending Communities (SILC) as a basis for Integral Human Development (IHD)

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Concurrent Workshops

1. Technology to Build Scale and Broaden Outreach
   • Technology to Build Scale and Broaden Outreach
2. Innovation in Managing Social Performance
   • Innovations in Managing Social Performance (PPT 1)
   • Innovations in Managing Social Performance (PPT 2)
3. Making Alliances Work between Value Chain Players and Banks
   • Caja Nor Peru
   • Krishak Bandhu: The Farmer’s Friend International Development Enterprises (India) is creating responsive innovations for the small farmer
   • A Field Visit to Soyabean-Silo Alliance in Paraguay
   • Making Alliances Work Between Value Chain Players and Banks
   • Value Chain with Financial Lens el Comercio/ACCION: Silo-Soy Alliance Handout 1
4. The Challenges in Market Development: When a Key Business in the Chain is Missing or Very Weak
   • Filling Gaps in Value Chain
   • The Challenges in Market Development When a Key Business in the Chain is Missing or Very Weak
   • The Challenges in Market Development – Experience of Light Engineering Sector in Bangladesh
5. Spotlight on Tajikistan: CIDA Supports Capacity Building in Tajikistan
   • CIDA Country Programming Strategy Tajikistan
   • IMON and MEDA: strategic partnership for financial services in rural areas
   • CARE Tajikistan
   • AGA KHAN Development Network in Tajikistan