MICROFINANCE EVENT: US Agency for International Development (AID) to Host Seminar, “Sound Expansion of Mobile Financial Services: A Risk Matrix Approach for Developing Enabling Environments”, Washington, DC, USA, October 21, 2011, Available in Person and Online on Microenterprise Learning Information and Knowledge Sharing (microLINKS), Knowledge-Driven International Development (KDID) Portal

Event Name: Sound Expansion of Mobile Financial Services: A Risk Matrix Approach for Developing Enabling Environments

Event Date: October 21, 2011, 9:00am – 10:30am

Event Location: Online or at QED Group LLC, 1250 Eye Street NW, 11th Floor, Washington, DC 20005, USA

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Cost: Free

Summary of Event:
This seminar will feature two presenters: Michael Ingram of Innovations for Poverty Action, a US-based nonprofit that designs and evaluates programs in sectors including microfinance, education, health, governance and community development, and Maria Stephens of the US Agency for International Development. The presentation will provide an overview of the “Mobile Financial Services Risk Matrix Tool” including “how the tool is currently being utilized within global regulatory contexts, and discuss some current USAID research underway that builds upon technical issues raised within the tool”.

Event Website: http://microlinks.kdid.org/events/sound-expansion-mobile-financial-services-risk-matrix-approach-developing-enabling-environmen

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About USAID:
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is a government agency that provides international economic and humanitarian assistance. It focuses on areas such as economic growth, agriculture, trade, global health, democracy, conflict prevention and humanitarian assistance. Under its Development Credit Authority (DCA), it provides credit guarantees that cover up to 50 percent of defaults on wholesale loans made by private financial institutions to institutions that lend on a retail basis to underserved borrowers.

USAID offers a suite of resources aimed at improving the outcomes of microenterprise development research and practice at http://microlinks.kdid.org/

By Ashim Kar, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Resources:

microLINKS story, “Sound Expansion of Mobile Financial Services: A Risk Matrix Approach for Developing Enabling Environments”, http://microlinks.kdid.org/events/sound-expansion-mobile-financial-services-risk-matrix-approach-developing-enabling-environmen

MicroCapital.org story, May 3, 2011, “United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to Host Seminar, “Is Microfinance Ready for Social Performance Certification?”, available in Person and Online on Microenterprise Learning Information and Knowledge Sharing (microLINKS), Knowledge-Driven International Development (KDID) Portal, May 4, 2011”, https://www.microcapital.org/microfinance-event-united-states-agency-for-international-development-usaid-to-host-seminar-%E2%80%9Cis-microfinance-ready-for-social-performance-certification%E2%80%9D-available-in-person-and-o/

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