Speakers Corner #7: Innovations in Outreach to the Very Poor took place on December 13-15, 2005.
Jeanne Downing, Evelyn Stark, Mike Field, and Lisa Parrot hosted the seventh Speaker's Corner on Innovations in Outreach to the Very Poor from December 13-15, 2005. The hosts shared their experiences from the USAID Microenterprise Development office and MicroSave. Participants discussed innovative ways to reach very poor clients, operational and organizational issues, financial services, business development services, enabling environment, and measuring impacts.
Topics discussed on Day One included models, programs, and examples of programs that have been successful in reaching the poor. Topics discussed on Day Two included structural/programmatic issues to making the ideas, products and services discussed during Day One a reality. Topics discussed on Day Three included whether or not products, services and assessing the real needs of the very poor have truly increased incomes, helped the poor build asset bases (savings or otherwise) and prepared them to provide for themselves and their families.
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