The Microcredit Summit Campaign, a project initiated in 1997 by the RESULTS Educational Fund, a US-based advocacy organization that aims to alleviate hunger and poverty, is requesting that each of its member institutions submit an Institutional Action Plan (IAP).

The IAPs are intended to serve as an opportunity for organizations to share their plans and accomplishments in the field of microfinance. They also promote the campaign’s two central goals for 2015: reaching 175 million of the world’s poorest families with microloans and ensuring that 100 million of those 175 million families rise above the USD 1 per day poverty threshold. The IAPs will be compiled in a report that will be presented at the 2011 Global Microcredit Summit in Valladolid, Spain, from November 14 to November 17, 2011. A due date to submit the IAPs has not been announced.

By Stefanie Rubin, Research Associate

Additional Resources:

Source Article: The Microcredit Summit Campaign: Submit Your Institutional Action Plan: http://www.microcreditsummit.org/submit_institutional_action_plan/

MICROCAPITAL PAPER WRAP-UP: The State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2009, by Sam Daley-Harris: http://www.microcapital.org/?s=MICROCAPITAL+PAPER+WRAP-UP%3A+The+State+of+the+Microcredit+Summit+Campaign+Report+2009%2C+by+Sam+Daley-Harris&x=0&y=0

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