Workshop Building Partnerships in Microfinance

This three day training course is designed for management of a range of microfinance providers and other stakeholders, including MFIs, banks, insurance companies, NGOs and government agencies. The course content aims to:

• Raise awareness of the potential of partnership approaches in microfinance;
• Better equip managers of financial and other institutions to assess, enter into and maintain mutually satisfactory partnerships that enable them to better deliver sustainable and appropriate financial services to the poor.

A side event, called Invest in Mekong Region Marketplace, will be held on Feb. 23, 2012.  The Invest in Mekong Region Marketplace is an event intended to gather financial investors to meet one to one with a diversified and investible pool of MFIs from Mekong Region matching their investment preferences in terms of investment type, size, tenure, country, social and financial criterion, risk appetite and expectation of financial and social return.