MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Pacific Microfinance Week 2009 (PMW 2009) to be Held from July 13 – July 17, 2009 in the Fiji Islands

Pacific Microfinance Week 2009

July 13-17, 2009, Fiji Islands

Fiji based Microfinance Pasifika, an alliance of institutions committed to supporting disadvantaged people in the Pacific, will organize the second Pacific Microfinance Week 2009 in the Nadi region in Fiji from July 13-17, 2009. PMW 2009 will be a week-long series of events, meetings and gatherings of a range of organizations and individuals who have an interest in promoting the provision of inclusive and sustainable financial services in the Pacific region. The event website is available here.

The prime objectives of the event are:

To draw awareness to microfinance operations in the Pacific region
To raise the profile of the Microfinance Pasifika Network to institutions external to its current stakeholder body;
To encourage partnerships and cooperation among microfinance stakeholders in the Pacific region
To bring together all Microfinance Pasifika Network members for an opportunity to network
To provide a platform for training workshops and presentations of ongoing work by the members and supporters of the network

The event will feature a series of training workshops, presentations, meetings, seminars and field visits. The detailed agenda is not available as of now; please check here for updates on the agenda.

About 150-200 delegates are expected to attend the event. While details of the confirmed participants are not available yet, according to the organizers the participants include representatives from the members of Microfinance Pasifika Network and providers, practitioners, donors and supporters of microfinance. The organizers also invite representatives from microfinance institutions (MFIs), development partners, commercial and central banks, learning institutions, government agencies and interested private companies to contact Microfinance Pasifika to get involved in the event. Registration for the event is currently open and the last date for registration is April 30, 2009. There is no registration fee for the event. To register for the event, please click here.

For information on sponsoring the event, please click here. Additional queries on event sponsorship can be directed to the Microfinance Pasifika Secretariat at info@microfinance-pasifika.org.

General inquiries can be addressed to:

Microfinance Pasifika Secretariat
c/o The Foundation for Development Cooperation (Pacific) Ltd
66 Mc Gregor Road,
Suva, Fiji Islands

Phone: +679 3544305, Fax: +679 3302 711, Email: info@microfinance-pasifika.org

The Microfinance Pasifika Network is an initiative of the Australian non-profit international development organization, Foundation for Development Cooperation. The network was primarily formed to address certain key constraints facing microfinance practitioners in the Pacific region namely, the small, spread-out, isolated population of the Pacific regions and the lack of sufficient know-how of the microfinance discipline among practitioners. Microfinance Pacifika was formally launched on the 16 and 17 of June, 2006 in Port Vila, Vanuatu with the objective of improving the quality of life of people in the Pacific through the provision of inclusive and sustainable microfinancial services and to disseminate relevant information to assist practitioners and supporters of microfinance operations to increase outreach and to perform better. As per currently available information, the member base consists of 12 financial members, including major donors, 10 provisional and 15 associated organizations from across the Pacific; the main composition being made up of NGOs and commercial banks. Countries represented within the membership are: Australia, the Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Tonga and Vanuatu.

By Bharathi Ram, Research Assistant

MICROCAPITAL EVENT: Pacific Microfinance Week 2009 (PMW 2009) to be Held from July 13 – July 17, 2009 in the Fiji Islands

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