Message-ID: <3.0.32.19990417112058.006a7868@ns1.bangla.net> Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 11:23:50 +0600 From: Carlos Ani <mailto:carlos@BANGLA.NET> Subject: Introducing MICRONEWS To: mailto:INTDEV-L@pete.uri.edu
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Hello INTDEV-L Friends,
We like to introduce to you MICRONEWS - a free electronic newsletter on microfinance and poverty alleviation. MICRONEWS provides many valubale information on microfinance, microcredit and projects that deals with poverty alleviation.
This is an initiave of CARE Bangladesh to foster greater sharing of information among the many institutions and players in the huge microfinance community in Bangladesh. There are thousands of microfinance professionals, workers and students in Bangladesh that do not have yet access to the wealth of information that are currently available. We want to give them that access. While the primary target audience is Bangladesh, this newsletter will be made available to the wider microfinance community of the world as there are many information in this newsletter that maybe useful to many countries, MFIs and organizations.
MICRONEWS is a new free electronic newsletter - that comes in email form. This FREE service is intended for all microfinance workers, practitioners, donors, funders, consultants, students and researchers that are interested in microfinance issues, projects, organizations, books, articles and materials. MICRONEWS comes to you FREE of charge. It is a specialized newspaper on microfinance best practices, project news, opportunities, books, innovative projects, research papers, evaluation studies, new systems, and new financial products. MICRONEWS will be produced 4 times a month only.
MICRONEWS is officially sponsored by CARE Bangladesh, the Credit and Development Forum (CDF) and the South Asia Network of Microfinance Institutions (SANMFI). Most of the articles are about or relevant to Bangladesh and Asia, but there are many information that are applicable or useful to many countries and fields.
MICRONEWS will be officially launched in Bangladesh sometime in May 1999 but trial issues are already circulating through various networks and mailing lists. We like to share with you below the table of contents of Trial Issue number 1 and 2. If you like to receive a full copy of these two trial issues of MICRONEWS, then just send an email to
mailto:<carlos-ani@mail.com>
with a short message "send issues 1 and 2", and it will be sent to you speedily via email. Kindly mention your name and organization.
How to get MICRONEWS on regular basis:
If you are a member of mailing lists such as Microenterprise-L, Community Development Banking, Enter-L, SEADChat (CARE internal list), SHARENET, and I-CARE, then you will get MICRONEWS on a regular basis, as we will be feed or post MICRONEWS into those six mailing lists. There is no need to subscribe separately to MICRONEWS as it will be fed to those mailing lists regularly.
[If the listowner of INTDEV-L agrees, I can also feed the newsletter to INTDEV-L, that is, if it is fine with most of you.]
If you are not a member of any of the six mailing lists mentioned above, then just send a blank email to: <mailto:micronews99-subscribe@egroups.com> and your name [actually your email address] will be automatically included in the MICRONEWS mailing list. Then you will start to receive MICRONEWS issues regularly.
If you are a microfinance practitioner, worker, donor or consultant, we also invite you to join our informal electronic network of microfinance professionals called SHARENET where we share materials, research papers, tools, etc. Most members are Asians. Basic information about SHARENET will posted to DFN separately.
Carlos Ani CARE Bangladesh Dhaka Email: <mailto:carlos-ani@mail.com>
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trial Issue No. 1 April 1, 1999 Dhaka, Bangladesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Inside this issue: 1. Introducing MICRONEWS 2. How you can get MICRONEWS 3. Governance Workshop for Microfinance Institutions 4. Article on Governance of Microfinance Institutions 5. New CDF publications 6. Training for NGOs in Bangladesh 7. SEEP website 8. Poor people cheated by Fake NGOs. 9. Free research papers on Microfinance, now available via email
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Trial Issue No. 2 April 10, 1999 Dhaka, Bangladesh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Inside this issue: 1. Why microfinance? 2. What is the INCOME project of CARE? 3. What is CGAP? 4. Attacking Poverty 5. Bangladesh Situation: - Hasina wins UNESCO peace prize - Hasina outlines steps for poverty alleviation - US Ambassador to Bangladesh urges political leaders to shun confrontation and focus instead on reforms 6. What is a mailing list? 7. Subscribing to DEVFINANCE 8. Miscellaneous: Virus alert - BUDDLST.ZIP FREE-NEWS via email Background info on MICRONEWS
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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- MICRONEWS - your microfinance newsletter on microfinance and poverty alleviation. This is for all microfinance practitioners, professionals, workers, students, consultants and donors. It contains valuable information about microfinance, microcredit and poverty alleviation. Focus is Bangladesh but material is applicable and useful to other countries as well. To subscribe, please follow the instructions below:
For non-Asians, just send email to <mailto:micronews99-subscribe@egroups.com>.
For Asian and Bangladeshi NGOs, just send an email to mailto:<listserv@home.ease.lsoft.com> and, in the text of your message (not the subject line), write: SUBSCRIBE MICRONEWS "yourname". Substitute your real name to "yourname"
MICRONEWS is sponsored by: CARE-Bangladesh, CDF, SANMFI ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------