Message-ID: <19960323130128612.AAA71@[200.239.60.104]> Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 13:01:30 +0000 From: Joaquim Moura <mailto:joaquim.moura@PERSOCOM.COM.BR> Subject: Microcredit summit (2) To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
MICROCREDIT SUMMIT Connections - March 1996 (Credit for the self-employment to 100 million of the World's poorest women by 2005)NEXT DRAFT OF SUMMIT DECLARATION AND PLAN OF ACTION DISTRIBUTED IN APRIL
In December, the Microcredit Summit Organizing Committee divided into six work groups as a next step in developing the Microcredit Summit`s draft Plan of Action. When completed, the Plan of Action is intended to outline the organizational and financial infrastructure necessary to reach 100 million of the world`s poorest families, especially the women, with credit for self-employment by 2005. Each working group will expand upon a different facet of the Plan of Action.
The working groups "Builing Capacity in Developing Countries", chaired by Women's Self Employment Project President Connie Evans and Grameen Bank Managing Director Muhammad Yunus, respectively, have been charged with developing a plan for rowth in the microcredit industry. Their work will outline the training and institutional expansion required to achieve the Summit goal. Organizing Committee Members Dr. Willioam Foege and Dr. John Hatch are working with Dr. Yunus.
Connie Evan`s working group includes Peggy Clark of the Aspen Institute's Self Employment Learning Project in behind fulfillment of the Summlt goal.
Ela Bhatt, General Secretary of the Self Employed Women's Association of India, is chair of the working group, Beyond Microcredit: Structures that Build the Economic Power of the Poor. Together with Karl Osner (formerly a Director in the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development), Lawrence Yanovitch of FINCA, and fellow Organizing Committee member, Nancy Barry, Ms. Bhatt is developing a draft outlining ways that the microcredit movement can expand the earnings, assets and economic power of poor people; build full financial services for the poor (including savings, social security systems); and ensure that poor people are involved in the decision-making and ownership of the institutions that serve them. All feedback on the November1995 draft of the Summit Declaration and Plan of Action received by the Summit Secretariat has been forwarded to the appropriate working groups for their review. Preliminary results of these working groups will be incorporated into the next draft of the Summit documents which will be circulated for comment in Apnl.
MICROCREDIT SUMMIT COUNCIL INVITING BEGINS
One of the central purposes of the Summit is to galvanize a microcredit movement which encompasses a broad cross-section of society.
The Summit was conceived as the nexus at which all sectors-public, private and nonprofit-would come together under the common vision of dramatically expanding the reach of microcredit and other financial services to the world's poorest families and then, together, agree on a decade-long strategy to accomplish this.
The Microcredit Summit Councils are the basic structures through which the decade-long action plan will be implemented. Councils will be comprised of insntutions and organizations that support the Summit goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment by 2005. Organized by constituency, the Councils will be a framework for similar organizations to support one anodher in developing and implementing institutional action plans for contributing to the Summit's goal. Membership on a Council will be a necessary prerequisite to becoming a delegate to the Microcredit Summit.
UNDP, World Bank, and Other Key Institutions are Among First to Join Councils
The United Nations Development Agency and UNIFEM were the first to join the Microcredit Summit Council of UN Agencies. Recently, they have been joined by the UN Capital Development Fund, UNFPA, and the UN Economic Commission for Europe.
The World Bank and IFAD recently announced that they would join the Microcredit Summit Council of International Financial Institutions; and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) have agreed to be charter members of the Council of Donor Agencies.
The Council of Microcredit Practitioners already has over a two dozen members including FINCA,SEWA Bank, Opportuniy International, Freedom from Hunger, ACCION Internatdonal, and Grameen Bank (see page 3 for a complete list of current council members).
The Microcredit Summit Organizing Committee has defined a practitioner organization as any organization involved in administering microcredit loans or providing training to organizations who administer microcredit loans.
Non-governmental Organizations that are not currently involved in microcredit but that are involved in delivering social services in the field (i.e., literacy, health, family planing, agriculture) are invited to join the Microcredit Summit Council of NGOs.
mailto:Organ@ations that are involved in education, advocacy, fundraising, policy development, or research but don't deliver social services in the field are invited to join the Council of Advocates.
Other Microcredit Summit Councils will include the Council of Religious Institutions, the Coumcil of Parliamentarians, the Council of Domestic Government Agencies, the Council of Banks and Commercial Finance Institutions, the Council of Foundations and Philanthropists and the Council of Corporations.
The specific requirements for membership in each council are listed on the respective council membership acceptance form. Requirements for membership on a Microcredit Summit Council include: holding briefings on microcredit and the Summit for staff; educating about microcredit and the Summit through organizational publications; attending, the February 2-4, 1997 Microcredit Summit - with a senior official leading the delegation; and a commitment to preparing an action plan outlining the organization's future contribution to the Summit goal.
The Summit Secretariat is in the process of mailing council invitations to all members of the Microcredit Summit mailing list. Summit registration materials are expected to follow in the Spring.
Council of Practitioners (in formation): ACCION International, USA Ahon Sa Hirap Inc., Phillippines Amanah luhtiar Malaysia, Malaysia Ashoka, USA Bukidnon Integrated Network of Home Industries, Phillippines Catholic Relief Services, USA Center for Agriculture and Rural Development, Philippines Center for Community Transformation, Philippines Centre for Self-Help Development, Nepal Enterprise Development International, USA FINCA, USA Foundation for Educational Evolution & Development, Philippines Freedom from Hunger, USA Grameen Bank, Bangladesh Grameen Trust, Bangladesh Integrated Development Foundation, Bangladesh Kashaff Foundation, Pakistan Lend International, USA Lift Above Poverty, Nigeria Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundadon, Philippines Opportunity International, USA Organisation for Mothers and Infants, Bangladesh Pro Mujer, Bolivia Rural Development Institute, China Salvation Army, USA SEWA, India SHARE, India South Asia Research Society, India Sphere, Gooty, India The Activists for Social Alternatives, India TSPI Development Corporation, Philippines Working Capital Delaware, USA
Council of UN Agencies (in formation) UN Capital Development Fund UN Development Program UNIFEM UN Populations Fund UN Economic Commission for Europe
Council of International Financial Institutions (in formation) The World Bank International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD)
Council of Donor Agencies (in formation) Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA) U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)
Council of Parliamentarians Charles Taylor, Member, U.S. House of Representatives Bob Filner, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
Microcredit Summit Organizing Committee Nancy Barry, President - Women's World Banking Ela Bhatt, General Secretary - Self Employed Women's Association Margaret Cadey-Carlson, President - Population Council Michael Chu, President - ACCION International Connie Evans, President - Women's Self-Employment Project William Poege, Executive Director - Task Force for Child Survival and Development John Hatch, Founder - FINCA Wakako Hlronaka, Member - House of Councillors, Japan Ismail Serageldin, Vice President - The World Bank Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Regional Director - Bureau for Africa, UN Development Program Kathy Waldron, President - Citibank International Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director - Grameen Bank
Summit Director: Sam Daley-Harris, Executive Director RESULTS Educational Fund RESULTS International _____________________________________________________________________
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