Monday, May 10th, 2010
by Jordan Filko
Last month I attended the 2010 Africa-Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit in Nairobi, Kenya to represent MFTransparency along with Chuck Waterfield and Alex Fiorillo. As my first Microcredit Summit, this was an exciting event for me.
My role at the Summit was primarily to man the MFTransparency exhibition space, explaining our work to curious passersby and distributing materials on our upcoming projects. Although unfortunately my posting at the booth meant that I had to miss Chuck’s presentation on the panel “Transparency in Interest Rate Pricing and Other Efforts Toward Consumer Protection,” I think it may have been one of the best ways to experience the event. Many thanks are due to Murray Gardiner and Temenos for their help in arranging this great exhibition space for us. It was my pleasure to meet Murray, an MFTransparency Board member, for the first time and to witness firsthand how ready our Board members are to jump in when needed to actively support us.
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Tags: Adok Timo, Conferences, Ingenico, Jamii Bora, KADET, Kenya, Kickstart, MCS, MercyCorps, Micro Service Consult, MicroCredit Enterprises, Microinsurance Innovation Facility, PAWDEP, RETAP, SEEP, Solio, Temenos, UNDP, Yehu
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
by Jordan Filko
Jambo! I would like to share a bit in this post about recent work in Kenya, where I spent three weeks in January with Alexandra Fiorillo (Vice President, MFTransparency) continuing the data collection process for MFTransparency’s Transparent Pricing Initiative in Kenya. Kenya is the first African country where we have implemented the Initiative and we’ve been continuing the work we began in October, when we hosted a training session in Nairobi during the Social Performance Task Force workshop. This trip has been hugely successful! I’m excited to report back and share some of the highlights of our time in Kenya.
We focused our first week in Kenya having meetings with organizations that support the local microfinance industry. The Association of Microfinance Institutions of Kenya (AMFI) has supported our work from the beginning of the Kenya project and we were happy to visit their offices to update them on our progress. As hosts of the 2010 Africa/Middle East Regional Microcredit Summit, AMFI invited us to host a session at the Summit where we will officially announce the results of the MFTransparency Kenya Initiative. Our partnership with AMFI has helped us to access the leading MFIs, communicate our message throughout the industry and ensure that there is support for our work from within the Kenyan microfinance market. We are very excited about the Microcredit Summit and sharing the results of our project there!
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Tags: AMFI, Field Work, FSDK, Kenya, Project Launch, Transparent Pricing Initiative
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