Community-Managed Microfinance: A new and sustainable approach to microfinance for the poor
A course for practitioners
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, 16 to 21 March, 2009
SaveAct of Pietermaritzburg in South Africa and VSL Associates Ltd. are offering a five and half-day course in the history, principles, practice and implementation of Community-managed Microfinance.
The course will be taught in English by Gabrielle Athmer, a VSL Associate and Consultant in Microfinance and Gender. There are 20 places available on this course.
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Course Description
The Community-managed Microfinance (CMMF) course exposes participants to best practice by the leading practitioner organisations that are promoting savings-based community-managed microfinance. The course covers 6 key areas:
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- General introduction, covering principles and emerging best practice; why CMMF?; the scale and extent of practitioner programmes; methodological background and emerging issues
- Field visits to SaveAct Village Savings and Loan groups. These are groups implementing the VSL CMMF model
- Practice sessions illustrating the VS&L methodology used by CARE, CRS and Plan International. All current training materials will be used
- Management Information Systems for CMMF: entry-level and advanced versions
- Approaches to programme design
- Implementation planning at all levels
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