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    Breakfast Seminar #66

    "Tools for Mending Weak and Fractured Value Chains," featuring Curtis Hundley of DAI. Hundley will share practical activities that can sustainably ignite the private sector development where trust is missing, business relationships are fragile, and market linkages are minimal.

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    Diaspora Engagement Seminar #7

    “Voice After Exit: Diaspora Advocacy,” featuring Jennifer Brinkerhoff (GWU), Aram Aram Suren Hamparian (Armenian National Committee of America) and Kathleen Newland (MPI)

  • Debate: Moving Financial Inclusion Beyond Microfinance
    Register for the microfinance debate webinar

    On January 30, Milford Bateman and David Roodman will debate on this audience-selected question:
    "If microfinance has not achieved its objective in substantially reducing poverty, what are the pathways to financial inclusion that will contribute to this objective?"

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    January Note From the Field

    Note From the Horn of Africa: Leveraging Mobile Technology to Link Somali Youth with Jobs
    Written by Jacob Korenblum of Souktel

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    Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event

    On February 7-8, 2012, USAID's Microenterprise Development office will host a learning event for the donor, practitioner, and research communities to disseminate value chain learning and discuss pressing issues going forward.

Microlinks captures new learning in microenterprise development, disseminates it among practitioners, USAID mission staff, and other donors, and connects those actors to each other in order to improve development outcomes around the world.

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Complexity meets sustainability
Microlinks Team | Jan 25, 2012 17:52 | COMMENTS(1)
This blog post was written by Eric Sarriot of ICF's CEDARS who presented at the recent Breakfast Seminar, "Emergence of Sustainability in a Complex System: Are Lessons From the Health Sector...
Vacancy: Technical Advisor - CARE USA Economic Development Unit - Learning, Impact, and Communication
Christian Pennotti | Jan 25, 2012 10:44 | COMMENTS(0)
CARE is seeking an experienced Technical Advisor, Learning, Impact and Communication to spend the majority of her/his time supporting the Pathways Program, which seeks to empower poor women...
New from the ILO Microinsurance Innovation Facility: Innovating to create client value
Microinsurance ... | Jan 24, 2012 19:18 | COMMENTS(0)
Moving beyond credit life insurance A vast majority of microinsurance programs at microfinance finance institutions (MFIs) start with offering some sort of credit life coverage, which is the most...
Survey Request: How do project managers at NGOs manage international development projects?
Microlinks Team | Jan 24, 2012 15:34 | COMMENTS(0)
  The Politecnico di Milano University, in collaboration with the Project Management Institute (PMI), is administering a survey to analyze how project managers working for Non-Governmental...
MicroRate’s “Role Reversal Revisited” finds that public lenders are crowding out private investment in microfinance
Beccaspradlin | Jan 24, 2012 14:23 | COMMENTS(0)
Washington D.C., January 24, 2012 – MicroRate’s study Role Reversal Revisited: Are public development institutions still crowding out private funders? concludes that the answer is a resounding yes...
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Emergence of Sustainability in a Complex System (Presentation)
January 26, 2012
A dialogue between the food security and health development sectors asking whether strategies and approaches can be applied to sustain positive development outcomes learned through the health sector to food security.
Discounted outpatient services: a way to keep clients
January 25, 2012
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