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MICROFINANCE EVENT: Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) to Offer Financial Management Training for Microfinance Institutions

Financial Management Training for Microfinance Institutions, November 12-14, 2009, at Davao City, Philippines, presented by the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) and sponsored by the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) and Ateneo de Manila University.

November 12-14, 2009, at Davao City, Philippines.

About the event:  Participants are required to understand financial analysis and be knowledgeable with regards to financial performance industry standards. Training will highlight current practices of successful MFIs in the form of actual case studies.  The course will assist MFIs in improving their financial performance through:

  • Treasury Management
  • Asset-Liability Management
  • Portfolio Management.

Participants will also learn how to project the future financial performance of the MFIs given their current financial performance level.

Who is invited: Everyone 

Optional Core Courses Offered (Outside of the Training) by SEDPI Include:

  • Financial Analysis – the primary focus is the method for adjusting financial statements to account for subsidies, donations, inflation and adequate loan loss provisioning. International, local and best practice financial standards are used to determine the quality of the financial performance. These include the PEARLS Monitoring System, COOP-PESOS, EAGLE, Microfinance Standards to all Types of Philippine MFIs, and CAMELS Rating System. Areas for financial analysis include efficiency, portfolio quality, profitability and financial structure.
  • Market-Based Financial Product Design and Development – The course extends the whole process of product design and development that involves assembling the product development team, design process, product costing and pricing, pilot testing, product launch and commercialization.
  • Delinquency Management – The delinquency management course emphasizes both preventive and curative strategies. Preventive delinquency management strategies include financial shields or prudent financial management practices, growth strategy and delinquency prevention techniques in microfinance methodologies. Curative delinquency management strategies include prioritizing delinquency management measures, remedial management and litigation, crafting incentives system to reduce delinquency, establishing the delinquency task force, loan administration strategies to delinquency management and crafting delinquency management plan.
  • Fundamental and Methodologies of Microfinance – It introduces the concept of the microfinance triad – savings, loans and investments and offers a deeper understanding of the fundamentals and principles of microfinance coupled with an appreciation of various microfinance methodologies – Group/Solidarity Lending, Village Banking and Individual Lending.

Important Dates: Thursday, November 12, 2009 through Saturday, November 12, 2009 Davao City, Philippines

Location: Please contact Melissa Reyes (+63-24-265659) for additional details regarding the site location.

Costs: Foreign nationals: USD 200 dollars; Filipinos: PhP 3,500 (Approximately USD 75 dollars)

Online Registration:  Please click here. 

For additional information, please contact:

Contact Name:

Melissa Reyes

Telephone:

+63-24-265659

Email:

info@sedpi.com

About the Sponsors:

Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI): SEDPI was established July 2004 as a private organization composed of social entrepreneurs previously employed in non-government organizations.  SEDPI provides management services for microfinance institutions and microenterprises.  SEDPI increased its number of development organizations reached from 502 in 2007 to 985. Cumulatively, SEDPI was able to reach out to 400 rural banks, 275 NGOs, 76 cooperatives and 234 other development organizations.  The organization still maintains its positioning of reaching out to small and medium microfinance institutions (those with less than 400 million in portfolio) which comprise 88% of the total outreach according to the company.

Ateneo de Manila University: The Ateneo de Manila University began in 1859 when Spanish Jesuits established the Escuela Municipal de Manila, a public primary school established in Intramuros for the city of Manila. The Padre Faura campus was eventually closed in 1976. A year later, the University opened a new campus for its professional schools in Salcedo Village, in the business district of Makati.  In October 1998, the University completed construction of a bigger site of the Ateneo Professional Schools at Rockwell, also in Makati.  The university seeks to preserve, extend, and communicate truth and apply it to human development and the preservation of the environment.  Ateneo offers undergraduate and graduate programs.

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