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MICROFINANCE EVENT: The SAM (Semaine Africaine de la Microfinance); October 18-22, 2021; Kigali, Rwanda

This year’s SAM (Semaine Africaine de la Microfinance) includes five days of conference sessions, an investors’ fair, an “Innovators’ Village,” research presentations, training sessions and workshops under the theme “Resilience of the African Inclusive Finance Sector.” The two-day conference portion of SAM includes sessions on topics such as how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected efforts to meet the UN Sustainable Development Goals, financing agricultural value chains, risk management, serving youth, digital infrastructure and post-crisis reconstruction. The other days of SAM include workshops on topics such as social performance, financial projections for microbanks, “green” inclusive finance, cybersecurity, banking infrastructure and using technology to reduce microbank’s costs.

About the Organizers: ADA, an NGO based in Luxembourg, co-organizes SAM every two years with the support of Luxembourg’s Ministry for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs. The other co-organizers this year are: the government of Rwanda, Microfinance African Institutions Network (MAIN), the African Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (AFRACA) and the Association of Microfinance Institutions in Rwanda (AMIR).

Cost: The fee to attend is EUR 550 (USD 650).

More details are available by calling +352 45 68 68 1, emailing info[at]microfinance-afrique.org or visiting
https://www.ada-microfinance.org/en/sam-2021/home.

By Divya Deshmukh, Research Associate

Sources and Additional Resources

SAM homepage
https://www.ada-microfinance.org/en/sam-2021/home

Vignettes demonstrating the value of SAM and other MicroCapital coverage of the event since 2015
http://www.microcapital.org/category/semaine-africaine-de-la-microfinance-sam/

This post is part of a sponsored series on SAM (the French acronym for African Microfinance Week). The first four SAMs were held in Tanzania in 2013, Senegal in 2015, Ethiopia in 2017 and Burkina Faso in 2019. MicroCapital has been contracted to promote and document each SAM since 2015.

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