Detailed_agenda_Engl.. - Global Microcredit Summit 2011

Interpretation Note: All PLENARY SESSIONS will be simultaneously interpreted (English-French- 

Spanish). In each of the 3 groups of 16 WORKSHOP SESSIONS, 5 sessions will have simultaneous 

interpretation available in English, French, and Spanish and 1 session in English and Spanish (these sessions 

are clearly indicated in the program). All other workshops will be conducted in English only. ASSOCIATED 

SESSIONS and DAY-LONG COURSES, unless otherwise noted in the program, will NOT be equipped with 

simultaneous interpretation. 

09:30 – 19:30 Registration (on site) 

07:30 Registration (on site) 

10:00 – 12:00 Opening Ceremony Auditorio de Valladolid (if extra room 

needed, we will use the Sala de Cámara) 

12:00 – 14:15 Lunch 

14:15 – 14:30 Break 

Chair | TBA 

Speakers | Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain | His Royal Highness Prince 

Talal Bin Abdul Aziz, President, Arab Gulf Programme for United Nations 

Development (AGFUND), Saudi Arabia | Dª Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Secretary 

of State for International Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, 

Spain | Juan Vicente Herrera, President of the Regional Government of Castilla y 

León, Spain | Francisco Javier León de la Riva, Mayor of Valladolid, Spain | 

Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh | Sam Daley-Harris, 

Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign, USA 

14:30 – 16:00 Plenary Session Auditorio de Valladolid (if extra room is 

needed, we will use the Sala de Cámara) 

16:00 – 16:30 Break 

Beyond „Ethical‟ Financial Services: Developing a Seal of Excellence for Poverty 

Outreach and Transformation in Microfinance 

Chair | Manuel Méndez del Río Piovich, Chairman, Microfinance Fundation BBVA, 

Spain 

Author | Frances Sinha, Director, EDA Rural Systems, India 

Panelists | Isabel Cruz Hernandez, President, Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe 

de Finanzas Rurales (FOROLACFR), Mexico | Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze 

Financial Services, Haiti | Christopher Dunford, Senior Research Fellow, 

Freedom from Hunger, USA | John de Wit, Managing Director, The Small 

Enterprise Foundation (SEF), South Africa 

16:30 – 18:00 Workshop Sessions 

WORKSHOP 1 SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION English | Spanish | French 

What Is the Problem: Getting an Empowering Regulatory 

Framework that Allows Taking and On-lending Deposits 

Sala de Juntas 1 

CCMD, Level 1 

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and Truly Works for MFIs, Their Clients, and the End of 

Poverty 

Chair | José Moisés Martín Carretero, Department Head for Multilateral 

Cooperation and FONPRODE, Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation 

(AECID), Spain 

Panelists | Sergio Navajas, Senior Specialist, Inter-American Development Bank, 

USA | Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President & CEO, Women's World Banking, 

USA | Wolday Amha, Director, AEMFI, Ethiopia | N. Srinivasan, 

Microfinance Consultant, India 


Why Managing for Social Performance Is More Important 

than Just Measuring It, and How Can MFIs Best Use These 

Insights 

Sala Polivalente 

CCMD, Level 3 

Chair | Arnaud Ventura, Co-Founder & Deputy Chairman, PlaNet Finance, 

France 

Author | Laura Foose, Director, Social Performance Task Force (SPTF), USA 

Panelists | Christian Loupeda, Director, Imp-Act Consortium, Freedom from 

Hunger, USA | Martha Cuentas Anci, President, Consorcio de Organizaciones 

Privadas de Promoción al desarrollo de la Micro y pequeña Empresa (COPEME), 

Peru | Frances Sinha, Director, EDA Rural Systems, India | Lalaine Joyas, 

Executive Director, Microfinance Council of the Philippines, Inc. (MCPI), 

Philippines 


A Deeper Look at Programs that Work with the Ultra-Poor: 

From Safety Net Programs to Other Innovations 

Sala de Cámara 

CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Aude de Montesquiou, Microfinance Analyst, Consultative Group to 

Assist the Poor (CGAP), France 

Author | Nathanael Goldberg, Policy Director, Innovations for Poverty Action, 

USA 

Panelists | Gauthier Dieudonne, Director, CLM/ Ti-kredi Program, Fonkoze 

Financial Services, Haiti | Ingrid Munro, Chair, Jamii Bora Group, Kenya | 

C.S. Ghosh, Chairman & Managing Director, Bandhan India, India | Santa 

Euceda, General Manager, ODEF Financiera, S.A., Honduras | Muhammad 

Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh 


Financial Literacy Programs that Work for the Clients and 

for the MFI 

Chair | Pamela Flaherty, President, Citi Foundation, USA 


CCMD, Level 1 

Author | Monique Cohen, President & Founder, Microfinance Opportunities, 

USA 

Panelists | Syed Mohsin Ahmed, CEO, Pakistan Microfinance Network, Pakistan 

| María Matilde Olazábal, Director, Freedom from Hunger in México, Mexico | 

Alexandra Fiorillo, Chief Operating Officer, MFTransparency, USA | Richard 

Leftley, President & CEO, MicroEnsure, United Kingdom 


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Sponsored by 

Johnson & 

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WORKSHOP 6 

WORKSHOP 7 

WORKSHOP 8 

Why Integrating Microfinance, Health Education, and Other 

Forms of Health Protection is Good for Your Clients and 

Good for Your MFI, and How Can You Incorporate It 

Teatro Experimental 

CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Joy Marini, Director, Medical Education Worldwide, Johnson & Johnson, 

USA 

Author | Sheila Leatherman, Research Professor, Gillings School of Public 

Health, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA 

Panelists | Shameran Abed, Programme Head, Microfinance, BRAC, Bangladesh 

| DSK Rao, Regional Organiser for Asia Pacific, Microcredit Summit Campaign, 

India | Rosario Perez, CEO, Pro Mujer, Inc., USA | Mamadou Diallo, Regional 

Manager, West Africa, Freedom from Hunger, Mali 

Obtaining Funds from New Financial Instruments and 

Mechanisms for Commercial and Emerging MFIs: From 

Funds to the Web 

Chair | TBA 

Sala de Profesores 

Escuela de Danza, 

Level 2 

Authors | Zina Sanyoura, Investment Manager & Elvira Espejo, Investment 

Associate, BlueOrchard Investments SARL, Switzerland | Tim Hassett, Vice- 

President of Microfinance, Kiva, USA 

Panelists | Anne-Marie Chidzero, CEO, AfriCap Microfinance Investment 

Company, Mauritius | Asad Mahmood, Managing Director, Global Social 

Investment Funds, Deutsche Bank, USA | Alex Silva, Executive Director, 

OMTRIX, Costa Rica 

Finding Solutions to the Currency Risk Challenge for MFIs, 

Investors, and Donor Agencies 



Level 2 

Chair | Dr. Steven C. Funk, Chairman, Funk Holdings Ltd., Race4Change, USA 

Author | Brian Cox, President, MFX Solutions, USA 

Panelists | Pilar Ramirez, President, Confie Holding SL, Bolivia | Robert 

Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citi, USA | Jürgen Hammer, Head of 

Investment Unit, Grameen Crédit Agricole Microfinance Foundation, France | Ian 

Callaghan, Consultant, United Kingdom 

Examples of How Technology has Worked for the Clients 

and for MFIs, Especially for Those Living and Working in 

the Hardest to Reach Areas 

Chair | Álvaro Martín, Patron, Fundacion AFI, Spain 


CCMD, Level 3 

Authors | David Edelstein (Author), Vice President, Technology Programs, 

Grameen Foundation, USA | Camilla Nestor (Presenter), Vice President, 

Microfinance, Grameen Foundation, USA 

Panelists | Murray Gardiner, Director of Microfinance & Community Banking, 

Temenos, Canada | Daouda Sawadogo, Director General, Reseau des Caisses 

Populaires du Burkina, Burkina Faso | Godfrey Supka, Global Business 

Development Manager, Fern Software, UAE | Kamal Budhabhatti, CEO, Craft 

Silicon, Kenya 

WORKSHOP 9 

Product Innovations: New Offerings that Maximize Benefits 

to Clients, MFIs, and their Communities 

Aula Teórica 4 


Level 1 

3

Chair | Robert P. Christen, President, Boulder Institute of Microfinance, USA 

Authors | Michael Hamp, Senior Rural Finance Adviser, International Fund for 

Agricultural Development (IFAD), Italy | Carolina Laureti, Fellow, Center for 

European Research in Microfinance (CERMi), Belgium 

Panelists | Graham Wright, Program Director, Microsave, India | Mohini 

Bhatia, Operations Officer South Asia, International Finance Corporation (IFC), 

India 

WORKSHOP 10 

WORKSHOP 11 

WORKSHOP 12 

When Clients Grow Old: Microfinance Strategies and 

Products that Address the Needs of the Elderly 

Aula de Danza 0.2 


Level 1 

Chair | Patricia Richter, Social Finance Program, International Labour 

Organization (ILO), Switzerland 

Author | John Hatch, Founder, FINCA International, USA 

Panelists | Reynold O. Walter, President, Regional Commission on 

Micropensions REDCAMIF & President of the Technical Committee on 

Micropension Projects in Central America, Guatemala | Alex Dimaculangan, 

President - CARD MRI Insurance Agency, Inc., & General Manager - CARD Mutual 

Benefit Assn., Inc., Philippines | Caroline Van Dullemen, Director, World 

Granny, The Netherlands | Jack Kupferman, Attorney, The NGO Committee on 

Ageing, USA 

Building a Successful Business Model for Islamic 

Microfinance 

Interpretación 5 


Level 1 

Chair | Ranya Abdel-Baki, Executive Director, Sanabel - The Microfinance 

Network of Arab Countries, Egypt 

Author | Mohammed Khaled, Regional representative for the Middle East and 

North Africa Region, CGAP, Saudi Arabia 

Panelists | Mohammed S. Al-lai, CEO, Al Amal Microfinance Bank, Yemen | 

Farida Tariq, CEO, Centre for Women Cooperative Development (CWCD), 

Pakistan | Mohamed Yasin, Executive Director, Tanzania ecoVolunteerism, 

Tanzania | Dr. Shafiq Dhanani, President Director & Founder, MBK Ventura, 

Indonesia | Dr. Muhammad Amjad Saqib, Executive Director, Akhuwat, 

Pakistan 

Why Invest in People How to Develop Skilled and 

Committed MFI Staff in Order to Reach Strategic Objectives 

Chair | Graham Macmillan, Program Officer, Citi Foundation, USA 


Conservatorio, Level 

1 

Author | Peg Ross, Director, Human Capital Center, Grameen Foundation, USA 

Panelists | Samit Ghosh, Founder & CEO, Ujjivan, India | Md. Enamul 

Haque, Chief Operating Officer & Executive Vice-President, ASA/ASA 

International, Bangladesh | Eugenia Acosta, Director of Human Resources, Pro 

Mujer, Inc., USA | James Semekadde, Dean, School of Business, Livingstone 

International University of Mbale, Uganda | Luisa Brunori, Professor of Group 

Psychology, University of Bologna, Italy 

WORKSHOP 13 

Transforming from NGO to Regulated MFI While 

Maintaining Your Commitment to Empowering the Poor: A 

Step-by-Step Process 



Level 1 

4

Chair | Vijayalakshmi Das, Managing Director, Ananya Finance for Inclusive 

Growth Pvt. Ltd., India 

Author | Felipe Portocarrero, Microfinance Specialist Consultant, International 

Finance Corporation (IFC), Peru 

Panelists | Mercedes Canalda de Beras-Goico, Executive Vice-President, 

ADOPEM, Dominican Republic | David Gibbons, Founder / Chairman, 

CASHPOR Micro Credit, India | Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Finance 

Trust, Kenya | Rupert Scofield, CEO, FINCA International, USA 

WORKSHOP 14 

WORKSHOP 15 

WORKSHOP 16 

What Makes a Wholesale/Autonomous Microfinance Fund 

Work, and How Can Funds of Top Quality Expand Around 

the World 



Level 1 

Chair | Professor Mario La Torre, Full Professor, Università di Roma La 

Sapienza Facoltà di Economia, & Member, Italian National Committee for 

Microcredit, Italy 

Author | Qazi Azmat Isa, CEO & Managing Director, Public Poverty Alleviation 

Foundation (PPAF), Pakistan 

Panelists | Fazlul Kader, Deputy Managing Director, Palli Karma Sahayak 

Foundation (PKSF), Bangladesh | Katrin Fakiri, Managing Director, MISFA, 

Afghanistan 

INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRY SESSION 

Changing the Mindset and Strengthening the Capacity of 

Financial Institutions, Governments, MFIs, and Other 

Stakeholders for Carrying Out Microfinance Programs 

through Effective Partnerships 

Sala de Ensayos 1 

CCMD, Level 1 

Chair & Author | Maria Nowak, President, L'Association pour le droit à 

l'initiative économique (ADIE), France 

Panelists | Corrado Ferretti, President, Permicro, Italy | Jochen Bloss, 

Benchmark Manager, Deutsches Mikrofinanzinstitut, Germany | Luc 

Haegemanns, General Secretary, BNP Paribas, Belgium | Wendy Bauman, 

President & CVO, The Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation 

(WWBIC), USA 


Improving the Framework for Microcredit and 

Microenterprise: How Regulatory Changes Can Advance or 

Hinder the Industry 

Chair | TBA 



Level 1 

Author | Jason Adkins, Executive Director, Minnesota Catholic Conference, USA 

Panelists | Stéphanie Kpenou, Advocacy Officer, L'Association pour le droit à 

l'initiative économique (ADIE), France | Maria Doiciu, Senior Consultant on 

SMEs development & Microfinance, Eurom Consultancy and Studies, Romania | 

Daniel Sorrosal, Executive Secretary, European Microfinance Network (EMN), 

Belgium | Mikhail Mamuta, President, Russian Microfinance Center, Russia 

18:00 – 18:15 Break 

18:15 – 19:15 Associated Sessions I 

• Where Has All the Money Gone Aggregating Large Sala des Profesores - 

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Amounts of Capital to Attack Global Poverty: Opportunities 

and Challenges 


Level 2 

Organizer | Steven Funk, Chairman, Funk Holdings Ltd., Race4Change, USA 

• Finance For The Poor: BBVA Microfinance Foundation‟s 

Experience 

Sala de Profesores - 


1 

Organizer | Mariola Arlandis, Responsible for External Relations, BBVA 

Microfinance Foundation, Spain 

Please note that this session will be conducted in Spanish. 

• MicroBank: Microfinance Adaptation to the Spanish Socio- 

Economic Environment, Through a Sustainable Social 

Banking Model 

Sala de Ensayos 1 - 

CCMD, Level 1 

Organizer | Juan María Nin, Executive Vice President & CEO, CaixaBank, 

Spain 


• Developing a Community of Practice for the Integration of 

Microfinance and Health 

Interpretación 5 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Bobbi Gray, Research and Evaluation Specialist, Freedom from 

Hunger, and HAMED Facilitator, The SEEP Network, USA 

• Moving 100 Million Families Out of Severe Poverty: Can 

We Do It 

Sala de Juntas 1 - 

CCMD, Level 1 

Organizer | Bob Sample, RESULTS/RESULTS Educational Fund, USA 

Panelists | Dr. John Hatch, Founder, FINCA, USA | Alex Counts, President, 

Grameen Foundation, USA | Dr. Maricruz Lacalle, Professor, University of 

Madrid, Spain 

• “Banking in the Cloud”: Transforming Microfinance Sala de Juntas 3 - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Organizer | Murray Gardiner, Director - Microfinance and Community Banking, 

Temenos, Canada 

• Agfund Model: Creating a Microfinance Bank in Six 

Months 

Sala Polivalente - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Organizer | Nasser Al-Kahtani, Executive Director, The Arab Gulf Program for 

Development (AGFUND), Saudi Arabia 

Panelists | Mohammed Khaled, Regional representative for the Middle East and 

North Africa Region, CGAP, Saudi Arabia | Bassem Kanfar, General Manager, 

National Microfinance Bank, Jordan | Mohammed Al-Lai, General Manager, Al 

Amal Bank, Yemen 

• The Emergence of a European Model in Microfinance Aula de Danza 0.1 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Sandra Moreau, Senior Programme Manager, European 

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Microfinance Network, Belgium 

Panelists | Michael Unterberg, Consultant & Researcher, Evers & Jung, Germany 

| Mirko Bendig, Consultant, Evers & Jung, Germany | Georgina Friederichs, 

International Relations Manager, Qredits, The Netherlands | Corrado Ferretti, 

President, PerMicro spa, Italy 

• The Peer-to-Peer Microcredit, Perspectives in Europe Sala de Juntas 2 - 

CCMD, Level 1 

Organizer | Arnaud Poissonnier, Founder, Babyloan, France 

Panelists | Emmanuel de Lutzel, Head of Microfinance Unit, BNP Paribas & 

Board Member, e-MFP, France | Dr Ajaz Ahmed Khan, Microfinance Advisor, 

CARE International, UK 

• When Governments Attack MFIs: What Are the Legal 

Protections 

Organizer | Pablo Serrano de Haro, Partner, Clifford Chance, Spain 



Level 2 

Panelists | Pablo Serrano de Haro, Partner, Clifford Chance, Spain | Roger & 

Emma Matebalavu, Clifford Chance, United Kingdom 

09:00 – 10:30 TWO CONCURRENT PLENARY SESSIONS English | Spanish | French 

Plenary Session 

Challenges to the Field and Solutions: Over-Indebtedness, 

Client Drop-Outs, Unethical Collection Practices, Exorbitant 

Interest Rates, Mission Drift, Poor Governance Structures, 

and More 

Chair | TBA 

Auditorio de 

Valladolid - CCMD, 

Level 2 

Author | Anton Simanowitz, Founder, Imp-Act Consortium, United Kingdom 

Panelists | Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor 

(CGAP), USA | Wolday Amha, Director, AEMFI, Ethiopia | Roshaneh Zafar, 

Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan | Fabiola Cespedes, Social 

Performance Coordinator, Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Finanzas Rurales 

(FOROLACFR), Bolivia 

Spanish Track Mini-Plenary Session 

Lessons Learned From Spanish Actions in Microfinance 

Abroad 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Armando Muriel, Managing Partner, NODUS Consultores, Spain 

Author | José Moisés Martín Carretero, Department Head for Multilateral 


(AECID), Spain 

Panelists | Antonique Koning, Microfinance Specialist, Consultative Group to 

Assist the Poor (CGAP), France | Manuel Méndez del Río Piovich, Director, 

Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Spain | María Jesús Pérez, Director of the 

Department of Social Research and Innovation, CODESPA, Spain | Francisco 

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10:30 – 11:00 Break 

Aperador Garza, Migration Technical Team, CARITAS, Spain | Esther Pino 

Jiménez, Director of Advocacy and Political Cooperation, Fundación Ayuda en 

Acción, Spain 



Women Are Useful to Microfinance: How Can We Make 

Microfinance More Useful to Women 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President & CEO, Women's World Banking, 

USA 

Author | Linda Mayoux, International Consultant to Hivos and Oxfam Novib's 

WEMAN Programme, The Netherlands 

Panelists | Rogaya Hamza, LEAP Project Manager, Port Sudan for Small 

Enterprises Development (PASED), Sudan | Shazreh Hussain, Gender Consultant, 

Pakistan Microfinance Network, Pakistan | Iris Lanao Flores, Executive Director, 

FINCA Peru, Peru | Patricia Padilla, Executive Director, Asociación Alternativa 

Para el Desarrollo Integral de las Mujeres (ADIM), Nicaragua 


What Have We Learned about the Most Effective Ways to 

Use Micro-Insurance to Reduce Vulnerability: Health, Life, 

Disaster and More 


CCMD, Level 3 

Chair | Marten Leijon, Executive Director, Microfinance Information Exchange 

(MIX), USA 

Author | Richard Leftley, President & CEO, MicroEnsure, United Kingdom 

Panelists | Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti | Pompy 

Sridhar, Vice President - Programme, ICICI Foundation for Inclusive Growth, India 

| Craig Churchill, Social Finance Programme, International Labour Organization 

(ILO), Switzerland | Thérèse Sandmark, Agricultural Microinsurance Officer, 

Grameen Credit Acrigole Microfinance Foundation, France 


Is Transparency Enough: What Is Fair and Ethical When It 

Comes to Interest Rates in Microfinance 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Elisabeth Rhyne, Managing Director, Center for Financial Inclusion at 

ACCION International, USA 

Author | Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President, MFTransparency, USA 

Panelists | Nadine Chehade, Business Development Manager, Planet Rating, 

Lebanon | Henry Oloo Oketch, Independent Consultant, Kenya | PN 

Vasudevan, Managing Director, Equitas, India | Carlos Danel, Co-Founder, 

Compartamos S.A.B. DE C.V., Mexico 


What Can Branchless Banking Do to Advance the Field and 

What Can It Not Do From Mobile Banking to Point-of- 

Service 


CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | William Van Dyke, Citi Country Officer Global Banking, Citi, Spain 

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Author | Claire Alexandre, Senior Program Officer, The Bill & Melinda Gates 

Foundation, USA 

Panelists | Olga Morawczynski, Mobile Financial Services Incubator Project 

Director, AppLab, Grameen Foundation, Uganda | Abbas Sikander, Group 

Executive Director, Tameer Bank, Pakistan | Stephen Rasmussen, Manager 

Technology & Business Model Innovation, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor 

(CGAP), USA 


Microcredit and Crop Agriculture: New Technologies and 

Other Innovations to Address Food Insecurity Among the 

Poor 


CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | K.G. Karmakar, Managing Director, National Bank for Agriculture and 

Rural Development (NABARD), India 

Author | Calvin Miller, Senior Officer, Agribusiness and Finance, Food and 

Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), Italy 

Panelists | Claudio González Vega, Professor Emeritus, Ohio State University, 

USA | Laura Vigano, Director of the Research Center on International Cooperation, 

Università di Bergamo, Italy | Stephanie Hanson, Director of Policy & 

Outreach, One Acre Fund, USA 

WORKSHOP 22 

WORKSHOP 23 

WORKSHOP 24 

How Have Micro-Franchises Improved Income 

Opportunities and the Lives of Community Members, and 

How Can MFIs Make Them Available to Their Clients 



Level 1 

Chair | Antonio Garrigues, Chairman, Garrigues Abogados y Asesores 

Tributarios, Spain 

Author | Jason Fairbourne, CEO, Fairbourne Consulting, USA 

Panelists | Malini Tolat, Program Manager, Solutions for the Poorest, Grameen 

Foundation, Uganda | Elena Heredero, Senior Project Specialist, Multilateral 

Investment Fund of the Inter-American Development Bank, USA | Caroline 

Misan, Manager, Sales & Operations - Latin America, VisionSpring, USA | 

Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh 

Sharing the Lessons Learned on Strengthening MFIs so that 

They Can Weather the Challenges of the Current and 

Future Financial Crises and Fluctuations in Food and Fuel 

Prices 

Sala de Junta 3 

CCMD, Level 3 

Chair | Anne-Marie Chidzero, CEO, AfriCap Microfinance Investment 

Company, Mauritius 

Author | Adrian Gonzalez, Lead Researcher, Microfinance Information 

Exchange, Inc. (MIX), USA 

Panelists | Udaia Kumar, Managing Director, SHARE Microfin Limited, India | 

Carmen Velasco, Co-Founder & Director, Pro Mujer, Inc., Bolivia 

From Micro- to Small and Medium Enterprise: How Do 

You Grow with Your Clients, Especially the Women, or 

Allow Them to Graduate to Institutions that Can Meet Their 

Expanding Needs 

Aula Polivalente 


Level 2 

Chair | Shari Berenbach, Director of Microenterprise Development, USAID, 

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USA 

Author | Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan 

Panelists | Veronicah Namagembe, Managing Director, Pride Microfinance 

Limited (MDI), Uganda | Vipin Sharma, Executive Director, ACCESS 

Development Services, India | Maria Teresa Zapia, Chief Credit Officer, 

BlueOrchard Finance, S.A., Switzerland 

WORKSHOP 25 

WORKSHOP 26 

WORKSHOP 27 

WORKSHOP 28 

The Debate on Outreach and Impact of Microfinance: What 

Do We Know and How Do We Know It 



Level 2 

Chair | Christopher Dunford, Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger, 

USA 

Author | David Gibbons, Founder & Chairman, CASHPOR Micro Credit, India 

Panelists | Aniceta Alip, Research Director, CARD MRI, Philippines | 

Kathleen Odell, Assistant Professor of Economics, Brennan School of Business, 

Dominican University, USA | Gloria Dias Campoblanco, Director of 

CrediMUJER, Movimiento Manuela Ramos, Peru | Annie Duflo, Vice President, 

Research Director, Innovations for Poverty Action, USA 

Microfinance as a Vehicle to Create a Platform for 

Ownership of Financial Institutions by the Poor 

Chair | Henri Dommel, Director, FIPA Unit, UNCDF/UNDP, USA 


Escuela de Danza 

Level 1 

Author | Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director, Yunus Centre, Bangladesh 

Panelists | Isabel Cruz Hernandez, President, Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe 

de Finanzas Rurales (FOROLACFR), Mexico | Chief Bisi Ogunleye, National 

Coordinator & Executive Director, Country Women’s Association of Nigeria 

(COWAN), Nigeria | Jeff Ashe, Director of Community Finance, Oxfam America, 

USA 

Empowering the Children of Microentrepreneurs with 

Primary and Secondary Education, College Scholarships 

and Loans, and Financial Services for Their Businesses 



Level 1 

Chair | Joanne Carter, Executive Director, RESULTS/RESULTS Educational 

Fund, USA 

Authors | Professor H.I. Latifee, Managing Director, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh 

| Shafiqul Islam, Director, BRAC, Bangladesh 

Panelists | Nurjahan Begum, Managing Director, Grameen Shikkha (Education), 

Bangladesh | Nick Cain, Regional Program Manager - Latin America + Africa, 

Vittana, USA 

How Can Microfinance for Housing Catalyze Slum 

Improvements and New Settlements 



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Chair | Robert Annibale, Global Director of Microfinance, Citi, United Kingdom 

Author | Patrick Kelley, Director of International Housing Finance, Habitat for 

Humanity, USA 

Panelists | Rose Molokoane, Chair, Federation of the Urban Poor (FEDUP), 

Coordinator, Slum Dwellers International, South Africa | Mohammed Munyanya, 

Architect, Kenya | Elissa McCarter, Vice President, Office of Development 

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Finance, CHF International, USA | Maria Sonia Vicenta Fadrigo, Regional 

Director, Homeless People's Federation, Philippines 

WORKSHOP 29 

WORKSHOP 30 

WORKSHOP 31 

WORKSHOP 32 

How Can Microfinance Programs Help the Struggle Against 

Social Problems Such as Begging, Child Labor, Prostitution, 

Violence Against Women, Criminality, Gangs and Drug 

Addiction 



Level 1 

Chair | Dr. Nandini Azad, Director, Working Women’s Forum, & Chairperson, 

Independent Commission for People’s Rights and Development (ICPRD), India 

Author | William Maddocks, SMDP Coordinator, Carsey Institute, University of 

New Hampshire, USA 

Panelists | Ingrid Munro, Chair, Jamii Bora Group, Kenya | Tamim Islam, 

Director of Development, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh | John de Wit, Managing 

Director, The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF), South Africa 

Best Practices for National and Regional Microfinance 

Networks 



Level 1 

Chair | Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Finance Trust, & Chairperson, AMFI 

Kenya, Kenya 

Author | Jenny Morgan, Director, Network Development Services, The SEEP 

Network, USA 

Panelists | Javier Vaca, Executive Director, Red Financiera Rural, Ecuador | 

Ranya Abdel-Baki, Executive Director, Sanabel - The Microfinance Network of 

Arab Countries, Egypt | Abdul Awal, Executive Director, Credit and Development 

Forum (CDF), Bangladesh | Juan José Lagos, President, REDCAMIF, Honduras 


Combining Social and Financial Performance: A Paradox Sala de Ensayos 1 

CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | Aldo Moauro, Executive Director, MicroFinanza Rating, Italy 

Authors | Cécile Lapenu (Author), Director, Comité d’Echanges de Réflexion et 

d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne-crédit (CERISE), France | Florent 

Bédécarrats (Presenter), Director of Research & Development, CERISE, France 

Panelists | Katarzyna Pawlak, Deputy Director, Microfinance Center (MFC), 

Poland | Connie Evans, President & CEO, Association for Enterprise Opportunity 

(AEO), USA | Hugo Couderé, Managing Director, Alterfin, Belgium 


Innovative Practices for Industrialized Nations: One-Stop 

Shopping, Standardized Credit Platforms, E-Money Systems, 

and Reaching Poor Youth, the Excluded, and the Most 

Vulnerable 



Level 1 

Chair | Mikhail Mamuta, President, Russian Microfinance Center, Russia 

Author | Faisel Rahman, Managing Director, Fair Finance, United Kingdom 

Panelists | Maria Cristina Negro, Secretary General, Fondazione Giordano 

Dell'Amore (FGDA), Italy | Janie Barrera, President & CEO, ACCION Texas- 

Louisiana, USA | Nazrul I. Chowdhury, Microfinance Advisor, Fundación 

Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spain 

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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 


15:30 – 16:00 Break 


Social Business and Microfinance: Building Partnerships 

with Corporations and Other Entities To Speed the End of 

Poverty 

Auditorio de 

Valladolid 

Chair | Dª Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Secretary of State for International 

Cooperation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation,, Spain 

Author | Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh 

Panelists | Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO, Groupe Danone, France | 

Antonio Romero, Director del Área Asociativa, Confederación Española de Cajas de 

Ahorros (CECA), Spain 


The Impact of Microfinance in Spain: Case Study and 

Recommendations for the Future 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Begoña Gutiérrez-Nieto, Associate Professor, University of Zaragoza, 

Spain 

Authors | Maricruz Lacalle Calderón, Executive Director, Universidad 

Autónoma de Madrid, Spain | Silvia Rico Garrido, Deputy Director, Head of 

Research & Founder, Fundación Nantik Lum, Spain 

Panelists | José Francisco de Conrado, President, MicroBank, Spain | Jean 

Claude Ferrera, Founder & Director, Asociación de Comunidades Autofinanciadas 

(ACAF), Spain | Jaime Durán, Professor in the Microcredit for Development 

Master Program, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain | Maria Nowak, 

President, L'Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique (ADIE), France 

16:00 – 17:00 Associated Sessions 

• Grameen Global Network: Experience-Sharing and 

Program Update 

Sala de Cámara - 

CCMD, Level 2 

Organizer | Professor H. I. Latifee, Managing Director, Grameen Trust, 

Bangladesh 

Chair | Muhammed Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh 

• SIMULTANEOUS INTERPRETATION English | Spanish | French 

Industrialized Country Microcredit for Social and Financial 

Inclusion: A Conversation with Clients 


CCMD, Level 1 

Organizer | Nazrul I. Chowdhury, Microfinance Consultant, Fundación Instituto 

de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spain 

• The Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance: A First 

Reflection 


CCMD, Level 1 

Organizer | Ben Simmes, Deputy Managing Director & Director - Social 

Performance and Financial Analysis, Oikocredit, The Netherlands 

Chair | Theo Brouwers, Director, SNS Impact Investing, The Netherlands 

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Panelists | James Gifford, Secretary, UNPRI / PIIF, United Kingdom | Dr. 

Jennifer Riria, Director, Kenya Women Finance Trust (KWFT), Kenya 

• Does Faith Matter: Exploring the Role of Faith-Based 

Microfinance Initiatives 

Aula de Danza 0.2 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Anna Pienaar, Programme Manager, Five Talents, United Kingdom 

• The Paris Appeal for Responsible Microfinance: 

“Convergences 2015” 



Level 2 

Organizer | Michaël Knaute, CEO, OXUS Development Network, & Executive 

Director, “Convergences 2015”, France 

Panelists | Jean-Luc Perron, Managing Director, Grameen Crédit Agricole 

Foundation, & Board Member, “Convergences 2015”, France | Emmanuel de 

Lutzel, Head of Microfinance Unit, BNP Paribas & Board Member, e-MFP, France 

| Arnaud Poissonnier, Founder, Babyloan, & Board Member, “Convergences 

2015”, France 

• Microfinance and Savings Banks: A Proximity Banking 

Model for the Unserved 



Level 1 

Organizers | Chris De Noose, Managing Director, World Savings Banks Institute 

(WSBI), Belgium | CECA (Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros), 

Spain 

• Making Microfinance Institutions Disability Inclusive: A 

Call to Action 

Aula Teórica 1 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Joshua Goldstein, Principal Director for Economic Citizenship & 

Disability Inclusion, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION International, USA 

Panelists | Flavia Bwire, Program Officer, Association of Microfinance 

Institutions in Uganda (AMFIU), Uganda | Charlotte McClain-Nhlapo, 

Coordinator for Disability and Inclusive Development, USAID, USA 

• Empowering the Poor from Social Entrepreneurship to 

Social Capitalists 



Level 1 

Organizer | Ruben de Castro y de Lara, Founder, President & CEO, Serving 

Humanity through Empowerment and Development (SHED), Inc., Philippines 

• The Psychology of Microfinance Interpretación 4 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Dr. Pamela Ryan, Co-Founder & Board Chair, Psychology Beyond 

Borders, USA 

Panelists | Dr. Luisa Brunori, Founder & President, International Observatory for 

Microfinance (IOM), Italy 

• Microcredit in Latin America: A Tool for Development Sala Polivalente - 

CCMD, Level 3 

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17:00 – 17:15 Break 

Organizer | Pilar Vereda del Abril, Fundación Iberoamericana para el Desarrollo 

(FIDE), Madrid 


• Holly Mosher Presents a Series Segments from Her Latest 

Film Bonsai: Muhammad Yunus’ Vision for Social 

Business 

Organizer | Holly Mosher, Director, Hummingbird Pictures LLC, USA 

• How Microfinance and Technology-for-Development (T4D) 

Can Benefit from Pro Bono Consultants and Skills-Based 

Volunteers 


- CCMD, Level 2 



Level 2 

Organizer | Shannon Maynard, Director, Bankers without Borders ® , Grameen 

Foundation, USA 

• Microcredit: The Entrepreneurial Ethic Promotes Financial 

Development 

17:15 – 19:00 Plenary Session 



Level 1 

Organizer | Héctor García Arias, Secretary General, Confederación de 

Organizaciones Empresariales de Castilla y León (CECALE), Spain 

Panelists | Aldo Moauro, President, MicroFinanza Rating, Italy 


Presentations at the Ministerial Level 

Auditorio de 

Valladolid 

Panelists | H.E. Giselle Burillo Sáiz, Minister of the Authority of Micro, Small 

and Medium Enterprise, Panama | H.E. Mayi Antillón Guerrero, Minister of 

Economy, Commerce and Industry of Costa Rica, Costa Rica | H.E. Mamadou 

Tangara, Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Gambia | 

H.E. Syarifuddin Hasan, State Minister of Cooperatives and SMEs, Indonesia | 

H.E. Abrâo Pio de Amaral dos Santos Gourgel, Minister of Economy, Angola | 

H.E. Aiuba Cuereneia, Minister of Planning and Development, Mozambique 

19:00 – 20:30 Delegate Reception CCMD 

09:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session English | Spanish | French 

10:30 – 11:00 Break 

A Guided Inquiry and Discussion: Where Do You Want the 

field to be in 10 Years or More and What Could You or Your 

Institution Do to Get Us There 

Facilitator | Dave Ellis, President, The Brande Foundation, USA 


Auditorio de 

Valladolid 


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Initial Public Offerings (IPOs): The Field‟s Salvation or 

Downfall 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Larry Reed, Incoming Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign, USA 

Authors | Vikram Akula, Founder & CEO, SKS Microfinance, India | Sanjay 

Sinha, Managing Director, Micro-Credit Ratings International Limited (M-CRIL), 

India 

Panelists | Carlos Danel, Co-Founder, Compartamos Banco, Mexico | 

Antonique Koning, Microfinance Specialist, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor 

(CGAP), France | Anne-Marie Chidzero, CEO, AfriCap Microfinance Investment 

Company, Mauritius | Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President, MFTransparency, 

USA 


Best Practices in Community Managed Savings Groups and 

Other Forms of Micro-Savings for Successfully and 

Sustainably Reaching the Very Poor 

Chair | Graham Wright, Program Director, Microsave, India 


CCMD, Level 3 

Authors | Jeff Ashe, Director of Community Finance, Oxfam America, USA | 

Chris De Noose, Managing Director, World Savings Bank Institute, Belgium | 

Lauren Hendricks, Executive Director, Access Africa, CARE USA, Tanzania 

Panelist | Djarot Kusumayakti, Managing Director, Bank Rakyat Indonesia 

(BRI), Indonesia 


What is the Low-Bar and What is the High-Bar on Client 

Protection 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Davy Serge Azakpame, CEO, Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN), 

Benin 

Author | Beth Rhyne, Managing Director, Center for Financial Inclusion at 

ACCION International, USA 

Panelists | Essma Ben Hamida, Co-Founder & Executive Director, enda interarabe, 

Tunisia | Carolina Benavides, Social Assets Manager, Mibanco, Peru | 

Boubacar Diallo, Director, MISION Africa Project, Catholic Relief Services, Benin 

| Dolores Torres, President & CEO, CARD Bank, Inc., Philippines 


What is the Cutting Edge for Microfinance in Remote, Hardto-Reach 

Areas 


CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | Makanda Kioko, Global Product Leader for Microfinance, Access to 

Finance Advisory, International Finance Corporation (IFC), Kenya 

Authors | Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti | Steven 

Werlin, Regional Director, Fonkoze, Haiti 

Panelists | Harihar Dev Pant, Executive Director, Nirdhan Utthan Bank Ltd. 

(MFI), Nepal | Daouda Sawadogo, Executive Director, Réseau des Caisses 

Populaires du Burkina, Burkina Faso | Praseeda Kunam, President, Samhita 

Microfinance, India 


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Breaking the Rules of Microfinance to Better End Poverty 

and Catalyze Its Transformational Dimension: 

Conversations with Industry Pioneers to Explore the Soul of 

Microfinance 


CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | Sharon D'Onofrio, Executive Director, The SEEP Network, USA 

Author | Lynne Patterson, Co-Founder & Co-Director, Pro Mujer, Inc., USA 

Panelists | Muhammed Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh | John 

Hatch, Founder, FINCA International, USA 

WORKSHOP 38 

WORKSHOP 39 

WORKSHOP 40 

WORKSHOP 41 

Growing Potential: Microfinance-Plus Approaches to 

Cultivating the New Generation of Young Clients 



Level 1 

Chair | Ousmane Thiongane, Chairman, Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN), 

Benin 

Author | Lara Storm, Director, Youth-Inclusive Financial Services, Making Cents 

International, USA 

Panelists | Jeroo Billimoria, Executive Director, Child and Youth Finance 

International, The Netherlands | Lisa Kuhn-Fraioli, Vice President of Latin 

America, Freedom from Hunger, USA | David Mukaru, Head of Micro Credit & 

Youth Banking, Equity Bank - Kenya, Kenya 

Learning from Real World Experiences: Lessons Learned in 

Using Microfinance in Post Conflict and Post Disaster 

Situations 

Aula Polivalente 


Level 2 

Chair | Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan 

Author | Warner Woodworth, Professor of Social Entrepreneurship, Brigham 

Young University, USA 

Panelists | Carissa Page, Office of Microenterprise Development, USAID, USA | 

Alex Silva, Executive Director, OMTRIX, Costa Rica | Reverend Tambwe wa 

Tambwe Musangelu, Executive Director, Diku Dilenga RD du Congo, Democratic 

Republic of Congo 

Remittances and Microfinance: Using Remittances for 

Productive Investments that Contribute to Sustainable 

Community Development 



Level 1 

Chair | Katleen Felix, Project Director & Diaspora Coordinator, Fonkoze 

Financial Services, Canada 

Author | David Myhre, Microfinance Consultant, USA 

Panelists | Mariel Vincent A. Rapisura, President & CEO, Social Enterprise 

Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI), Philippines | Hon. Soukeyna Ndiaye Ba, 

Executive Director, INAFI International, Senegal | Maria Soledad Martinez 

Peria, Lead Economist, World Bank, USA | Joaquin Mata, General Manager of 

Global Financial Services, Telefónica, Spain 

How Can Microfinance Contribute to Restoring Dignity and 

Transforming Lives in Urban Slums 



1 

Chair | Dr. Aziz Akgül, Former Director for Diyarbakr, Parliament of the Grand 

National Assembly, Turkey 

Authors | Rob Gailey, Director, Center for International Development, Associate 

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Professor, School of Business, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA | Rebecca 

Harver, Spanish Major, Point Loma Nazarene University, USA 

Panelists | Ingrid Munro, Chair, Jamii Bora Group, Kenya | Dr. Nandini Azad, 

Director, Working Women’s Forum, & Chairperson, Independent Commission for 

People’s Rights and Development (ICPRD), India | Lutwama Muhammed, 

Operations Manager, ACTogether Uganda, Uganda | Sachi Shenoy, Executive 

Director, Upaya Social Ventures, USA 

WORKSHOP 42 

Where Is Microfinance Most Powerfully Linked with 

Sustainable Agriculture, Renewable Energy, Water and 

Sanitation to End Poverty and Mitigate Climate Change 

Chair | TBA 



Level 1 

Author | Nicola Armacost, Managing Director & Co-Founder, ARC Finance, 

USA 

Panelists | Armando Gutierrez, General Director, PRESTANIC, Nicaragua | 

Joyce deMucci, Global Marketing & Business Development, Barefoot Power Ltd., 

Australia | Tamim Islam, Director of Development, Grameen Trust, Bangladesh | 

April Rinne, Director of WaterCredit, Water.org, USA 

WORKSHOP 43 Microcredit and Job Creation Interpretación 4 


Level 1 

Chair | TBA 

Author | Bernd Balkenhol, Director, Social Finance Programme, International 

Labour Organization (ILO), Switzerland 

Panelists | Jennifer Riria, CEO, Kenya Women Finance Trust, Kenya | Pilar 

Ramirez, President, Confie Holding SL, Bolivia | R.P.B. Thilakasiri, Director 

General, Samurdhi Authority, Sri Lanka | Lamiya Morshed, Executive Director, 

Yunus Centre, Bangladesh 

WORKSHOP 44 

WORKSHOP 45 

Process of Designing and Implementing a National Strategy 

for Financial Inclusion: Challenges and Lessons Learned 



Level 2 

Chair | Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), 

USA 

Author | Beth Porter, Policy Advisor, Financial Inclusion, United Nations Capital 

Development Fund (UNCDF), USA 

Panelists | Reynaldo Marconi, Executive Secretary, ASOFIN, Bolivia | Nasser 

Al-Khatani, Executive Director, AGFUND, Saudi Arabia | Betty Wilkinson, 

Principal Financial Sector Specialist, Public Management, Financial Sector and 

Regional Cooperation Division (EAPF), Asian Development Bank, Philippines 

Motivating Your Board of Directors to Actively Promote and 

Deepen Your Social Mission 

Chair | Scott Brown, President & CEO, VisionFund, USA 



Level 1 

Authors | Aldo Moauro, Executive Director, MicroFinanza Rating, Italy | 

Micol Guarneri, Director of SPM services, Microfinanza Srl, Italy 

Panelists | Florent Bédécarrats, Coordinator of Research & Development, Comité 

d’Echanges de Réflexion et d’Information sur les Systèmes d’Epargne-crédit 

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(CERISE), France | Rosalind Copisaro, Managing Director, Oikocredit, The 

Netherlands | Shankar Man Shrestha, CEO, Rural Microfinance Development 

Centre Ltd. (RMDC), Nepal | Laura Foose, Director, Social Performance Task 

Force (SPTF), USA 

WORKSHOP 46 

WORKSHOP 47 

WORKSHOP 48 

Discussion of Nationwide Surveys in India and Bangladesh 

on Client Movement Above the US$1.25 a Day Threshold 

and on Tools MFIs Are Using to Measure that Movement 


CCMD, Level 3 

Chair | DSK Rao, Regional Organiser for Asia Pacific, Microcredit Summit 

Campaign, India 

Panelists | Sambit Rath, Researcher, India Development Foundation, India | 

Sajjad Zohir, Research Director, Economic Research Group, Bangladesh | 

Bappaditya Mukhopadhyay, Research Fellow, India Development Foundation, 

India | Shari Berenbach, Director of Microenterprise Development, USAID, USA 


The Importance of Business Development Services for 

Microfinance Clients in Industrialized Countries 



Level 1 

Chair & Author | Connie Evans, President & CEO, Association for Enterprise 

Opportunity (AEO), USA 

Panelists | Aaron Barbour, Head of Links UK, Community Links, United 

Kingdom | Wendy Bauman, President & CVO, The Wisconsin Women's Business 

Initiative Corporation (WWBIC), USA 


When Does a Well-Designed Group Methodology and When 

Does a Well-Designed Individual Methodology Work Best to 

Strengthen Social and Financial Inclusion, and What Are 

Those Designs 

Sala de Ensayos 1 

CCMD, Level 1 

Chair | Olga Garcia Frey, General Manager Commercial, Instituto de Crédito 

Oficial, Spain 

Author | Ana-María Fuertes, Director, Instituto Interuniversitario de Desarrollo 

Local, & Director, Master en Cooperación al Desarrollo, Universidad Jaume I, Spain 

| Nazrul I. Chowdhury, Microfinance Advisor, Fundación Instituto de Crédito 

Oficial (ICO), Spain 

Panelists | Vasil Davaliev, Executive Director, Microcredit Foundation Horizonti, 

Macedonia | Lisa Servon, Dean & Associate Professor, Milano School for 

Management and Urban Policy - The New School, USA | Maria Faddoul, Adie 

International Manager, L'Association pour le droit à l'initiative économique (ADIE), 

France | Vidar Jorgensen, President, Grameen America, USA 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch 



Presentations of Institutional Action Plans (IAP) 

Chair | TBA 

Auditorio de 


Level 2 

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15:30 – 16:00 Break 

Panelists | Sir Fazle Abed, Founder & Chairperson, BRAC, Bangladesh | 

Gauthier Dieudonne, Director, CLM/ Ti-kredi Program, Fonkoze Financial 

Services, Haiti 


Microfinance for Social and Financial Inclusion: Models to 

Ensure that No One is Excluded From Access to 

Opportunities 


CCMD, Level 2 

Chair | Carlos Álvarez, General Director, Fundación Instituto de Crédito Oficial 

(ICO), Spain 

Authors | Nazrul I. Chowdhury, Microfinance Advisor, Fundación Instituto de 

Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spain | Carmen Pérez, Head of Social Economics & 

Microcredit, Fundación Cajasol, Spain 

Panelists | Marcelo Abbad, General Director, Fundación Intervida, & Founder, 

MACS Consultoría Social, Spain | Ana Gorestegui, Director, MACS Consultoria 

Social and Transformando S.Coop.Mad, Spain | Fernando Vega Holm, Director 

of Social Investment and Foundations Relations, Banca Cívica, Spain | Carlos 

Balado García, Director of Social Work and Institutional Relations, CECA, Spain 



Using Microfinance to Ensure Sustainable Rural 

Livelihoods and Food Security While Mitigating Climate 

Change 

Auditorio de 


Level 2 

Title 1: Using Microfinance Plus Agricultural Services to Improve Rural 

Livelihoods and Food Security 

Authors | Sir Fazle Abed, Founder & Chairperson, BRAC, Bangladesh | Susan 

Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA, USA | Dr. Mahabub Hossain, Executive 

Director, BRAC and BRAC International, Bangladesh | Rod Dubitsky, Executive 

Vice President, PIMCO Advisory Group, USA 

Title 2: Towards Reinventing Microfinance through Solving the “Last Mile 

Problem”: Bringing Clean Energy Solutions and Actionable Information to the 

Poor 

Author | Alex Counts, President & CEO, Grameen Foundation, USA 

Chair | TBA 

Panelists | Prakash Bakshi, Chairman, National Bank for Agriculture and Rural 

Development (NABARD), India | Shameran Abed, Programme Head, 

Microfinance, BRAC, Bangladesh | Claudio González Vega, Professor Emeritus, 

Ohio State University, USA | Laté Lawson-Lartego, Director, Economic 

Development Unit/CARE, USA | Nicola Armacost, Managing Director & Co- 

Founder, ARC Finance, USA 


Instruments and Actors of Spanish Actions in Microfinance 

Abroad: How do They Complement Each Other 

Chair | Verónica López, Director, Fundación AFI, Spain 


CCMD, Level 2 

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Authors | Koldo Unceta, Applied Economics Professor, Instituto de Estudios 

sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación, Spain | Jorge Gutierrez, Professor, Instituto de 

Estudios sobre Desarrollo y Cooperación, Spain 

Panelists | José Moisés Martín Carretero, Department Head for Multilateral 


(AECID), Spain | Antonio Vereda del Abril, President, Fundación 

Iberoamericana para el Desarrollo (FIDE), Spain | Rosa María Brugés Bueno, 

Deputy Director of Cooperation, FUNDESO, Spain | José María Matellán Pérez, 

Director of Quality and Systems, Habitáfrica, Spain | Agustín Vitórica, Co- 

Founder and CEO, Ambers & Co, Spain 

17:30 – 18:00 Break 

18:00 – 19:00 Associated Sessions 

• Film viewing of Climbing the Ladder: The Jamii Bora 

Story 

Organizer | The Microcredit Summit Campaign, USA 


– CCMD, Level 2 

• Improving the Effectiveness of Group Lending Sala Polivalente - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Organizers | Anton Simanowitz, Research Manager, IDS, University of Sussex, 

United Kingdom | Lisa Kuhn-Fraioli, Vice President of Latin America, Freedom 

from Hunger, USA 

Chair | Asad Mahmood, Managing Director, Global Social Investment Funds, 

Deutsche Bank, USA 

• Student Involvement in Microfinance: The MFI Connect 

Story 

Organizer | Chris Temple, Founder & Director, MFI Connect, USA 

• Global Microscope on the Microfinance Business 

Environment 2011 



1 



Level 2 

Organizer | Renate Gamarra, Microfinance Consultant, Access to Finance – 

Microfinance, International Financial Corporation (IFC), USA 

• Methodologies for Female Inclusion in Microfinance Interpretación 5 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Claudia Revilla, Vice President, Red Lader, Mexico 


• Microcredit, Microinsurance, Health and Well-Being: The 

Research Challenges 



Level 2 

Organizer | Cam Donaldson, Yunus Chair in Social Business & Health, Glasgow 

Caledonian University, United Kingdom 

Panelists | Maricruz Lacalle Calderon, Professor, Universidad Autónoma de 

Madrid, & Founder, Foro Nantik Lum de MicroFinanzas, Spain | Javier Márquez 

Vigil, Professor, Universidad Pontificia Comillas, Spain | Ramón Flores Sardá, 

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Senior Investment Officer, responsAbility Social Investments AG, Peru 

• SECOT as a Social Institution Supporting Microcredit Sala de Juntas 3 - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Organizer | Carmen Alemán Laín, Commercial Director, SECOT, Spain 


• Social Performance: What Does the Market Want 

Interpreting Research from MIX and Moody's Research 

Labs 


CCMD, Level 1 

Organizers | Jody Rasch, Senior Vice President, Moody's Research Labs, USA | 

Micol Pistelli, Manager, Social Performance Program, Microfinance Information 

Exchange, Inc. (MIX), USA 

• Benefits and Challenges of Micropayments in Rural Areas Interpretación 4 - 


Level 1 

Organizer | Verónica López-Sabater, Director, Fundación AFI, Spain 


09:00 – 13:00 Day-Long Courses 

COURSE 1 

Progress Out of Poverty Index (PPI): An Overview & 

Survey of Uses and Benefits 



Level 2 

Trainers | Jeff Toohig, Deputy Director, Grameen Foundation, USA | 

Margaret Richards, Education Specialist, IRIS Center, USA 

COURSE 2 Why Add Health to Microfinance Sala de Profesores - 


1 

Trainers | Marcia Metcalfe, Director, Freedom from Hunger, USA | DSK Rao, 

Regional Organiser for Asia Pacific, Microcredit Summit Campaign, India 

COURSE 3 Introduction to Financial Education Interpretación 5 - 


Level 1 

Trainer | Julie Lee, Training Officer, Microfinance Opportunities, USA 

COURSE 4 

Making the Business Case for Youth-Inclusive Financial 

Services 



Level 1 

Trainer | Lara Storm, Director, Youth-Inclusive Financial Services, Making 

Cents International, USA 

COURSE 5 

Facilitating Transparent & Responsible Pricing in 

Microfinance 

Aula Teórica 1 - 


Level 1 

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Trainer | Chuck Waterfield, CEO & President, MFTransparency, USA 

COURSE 6 

Learning to Plan for Institutional Financial Self-Sufficiency 

while Reaching the Poorest Families 

Aula de Voz - 


Level 1 

Trainer | Howard Brady, President & CEO, MFI Resources, USA 

COURSE 7 

Innovations in Microenterprise Development in 

Industrialized Countries 



Level 1 

Trainers | Stefanie Lämmermann, Program Director, European Microfinance 

Network (EMN), Belgium | Daniel Sorrosal, Executive Secretary, European 

Microfinance Network (EMN), Belgium | Nazrul I. Chowdhury, Microfinance 

Advisor, Fundación Instituto de Crédito Oficial (ICO), Spain | Wendy K. 

Baumann, President/CVO, The Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation 

(WWBIC), USA | Vincent Stulen, Project Head, Qredits, The Netherlands 

COURSE 8 

COURSE 8a 

Social Performance Initiatives 

Note: Senior MFI staff (CEO/COO/Operations manager) can sign up for the two day version 

of this course (Parts I and II). 

Part I - Introductory Course on Social Performance 

Initiatives, Indicators, and Tools 


CCMD, Level 3 

Trainer | Leah Wardle, Deputy Director, Social Performance Task Force, USA 

COURSE 9 Client Protection Principles Training Sala de Juntas 3 - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Trainer | Isabelle Barrès, Director, SMART Campaign, USA 

COURSE 10 

Empowering Women through Microfinance: Current 

Innovations and Tools 


CCMD, Level 1 

Trainers | Linda Mayoux, International Consultant to Hivos and Oxfam Novib's 

WEMAN Programme, The Netherlands | Paineto Baluku, Programme 

Coordinator, Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Limited, Uganda 

COURSE 11 Liabilities Planning and Funding Strategies for MFIs Place holder 

13:00 – 14:30 Lunch 

Trainer | MFX Solutions, USA 

14:30 – 16:30 Continuation of Day-Long Courses 

16:30 – 17:00 Lunch 

17:00 – 18:15 Closing Ceremony 

09:00 – 16:00 Day-Long Courses (continued) 

COURSE 8 

COURSE 8b 

Social Performance Initiatives 

Part II - Becoming a More Effective Organization: 

Integrating Social Performance into Your Strategy and 

Management Systems 


CCMD, Level 3 

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Trainer | Anton Simanowitz, Founder, Imp-Act Consortium, USA 

COURSE 9 Client Protection Principles Training Sala de Juntas 3 - 

CCMD, Level 3 

Trainer | Isabelle Barrès, Director, SMART Campaign, USA 

COURSE 10 

Empowering Women through Microfinance: Current 

Innovations and Tools 


CCMD, Level 1 

Trainers | Linda Mayoux, International Consultant to Hivos and Oxfam Novib's 

WEMAN Programme, The Netherlands | Paineto Baluku, Programme 

Coordinator, Bukonzo Joint Cooperative Limited, Uganda 

COURSE 11 Liabilities Planning and Funding Strategies for MFIs Place holder 

Trainer | MFX Solutions, USA 

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