Luxembourgish NGO ADA recently announced that the next SAM (Semaine Africaine de la Microfinance) will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from October 21 to 25, 2019. The themes for this fourth SAM include Agricultural Finance; Macro-Level Alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals; Digital Finance and Fintech; Cash Transfers; Gender Inequality; and Small & Medium Enterprise Development and Youth Employment. In addition to the conference sessions on October 22 and October 23, there will be an Investor’s Fair, an Innovator’s Fair, “Research Meets Africa” discussions and 20 free trainings and workshops.
The SAM is organized by ADA with the support of Luxembourg’s Directorate for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs in concert with the following Africa-based networks: MAIN (Microfinance African Institutions Network), AFRACA (Association Africaine du Crédit Rural et Agricole) and APSFD-BF (Association Professionnelle des Systèmes Financiers Décentralisés du Burkina Faso).
Significant documentation available on prior iterations, including an ongoing series of vignettes on how SAM helped its participants boost their impact.
This notice is sponsored by ADA, which has engaged MicroCapital report on the proceedings from each SAM since 2015.
Sources and Additional Resources
SAM homepage
http://sam.africa
SAM information packet
https://www.ada-microfinance.org/download/5136/presentation-sam-2019-en-light.pdf
MicroCapital Coverage of SAM (African Microfinance Week)
https://www.microcapital.org/category/semaine-africaine-de-la-microfinance-sam/
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