Grameen Foundation
High Growth Partner Forum
"Maximizing Impact: Peer Learning for Common Gain" |
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Pre-Forum Training: October 15
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On
Sunday, October 15, participants may choose to participate in a
day-long training. Participants must register for one of three options.
Grameen Foundation will pay the cost of the trainer and facilities
fees; participants will be asked to pay for their own lodging in
order to attend the training. The fees for one night's stay are:
- Hotel
Samrat : Rs 6300 ( approx. USD 140)
- Hotel
Ashok : Rs. 9625 (approx. USD 214)
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Please
indicate on the registration form your choice for training and your
preferred hotel choice. Requests will be accommodated on a first-come
first-serve basis.
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Financial
Education for the Poor
The
Financial Education for the Poor Project is led by Microfinance
Opportunities and Freedom from Hunger and funded by the Citigroup
Foundation. The project worked with seven MFI partners around the
globe to develop the financial education curriculum targeted at
low-income households in developing countries. The Financial Education
Curriculum consists of the following five modules:
- Budgeting:
Use Money Wisely
- Savings:
You Can Do It!
- Debt
Management: Handle with Care
- Banking
Services: Know Your Options
- Financial
Negotiation: Communicate with Confidence
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one-day workshop will cover the following topics: an introduction
to financial education; an overview of the Financial Education
for the Poor curriculum; a discussion of the process of developing
financial education; a review of the key principles and practices
of adult learning; and an interactive review of the above components
of the curriculum. By the end of the workshop, participants will be
able to describe the Financial Education for the Poor package of materials
and their applications; how the materials were developed (from the
bottom up); the content and learning methodology. They will recognize
the value of financial education for low-income households, that it
can be adapted to a variety of markets and contexts. (Trainers: Monique
Cohen, Microfinance Opportunities and Kathleen Stack, Freedom from
Hunger) |
Building An Investment-Ready Microfinance Institution: Securing Debt
Financing
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institutions mature so do their funding needs. Commercially viable
microfinance institutions may be pulled by customers and pushed by
donors to diversify their funding bases, particularly when donor grants
and retained earnings are no longer sufficient to support growing
demand for loan capital. |
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one-day workshop is aimed at the microfinance institution that has
started to borrow commercially to fund its needs for loan capital
but is asking itself the following questions as it starts down the
path toward commercialization. What is the best way to prepare your
MFI for a loan negotiation? Which kind of debt (private or public)
is best suited for the microfinance institution's funding needs? What
can a borrowing microfinance institution do to improve the financial
terms, deal structure and loan documentation of its commercial borrowings?
What role should credit enhancements play? How should a microfinance
institution manage multiple lenders? What should a microfinance institution
do if things go wrong with one of its borrowings? (Trainers: Deb
Burand, Camilla Nestor, Jennifer Meehan; Grameen Foundation) |
Applying Process Modeling to Improve Business Performance (October
15)
Our partners
are growing with wider outreach, innovative products and services
and access to commercial financial resources. They face new regulatory
requirements, increased competition and must continually hire, train
and fairly compensate their staff. MFIs often balance these opportunities
and challenges with limited resources and at times inexact information.
Decisions might be haphazard, ill-planned or executed with limited
opportunities to consider the full array of alternatives. On the other
hand, what if MFIs could embrace a path of planned improvement? What
if an MFI changed one function and could nearly predict the outcome?
How might an MFI further its impact by responding proactively to its
member's needs rather than reactively?
This
one-day workshop will address these questions through the use of
process modeling. Upon completion of the one day Performance Process
Modeling seminar, participants will:
- Explain
the benefits of functional modeling
- Describe
the three levels of modeling
- Create
a functional organization model
- Present
the format and structure of process model.
(Trainer: Jerome Pelonquin, organizational development consultant)
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