European Microfinance Week

e-MFP to Celebrate Ten Years of Inclusive Finance Innovation during European Microfinance Week

European Microfinance Week (EMW) taking place 16^th – 18^th November in Luxembourg, is a major annual event of the microfinance industry hosting high-level discussions by all sectors of the European microfinance community working in developing countries.

Organised by the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), one of the industry’s premier networks for knowledge sharing which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary, EMW is proud to once again welcome over 400 top professionals from the microfinance and financial inclusion sectors, from several dozen countries. To see what EMW is all about, you can read about and see the video of the 2015 conference here.

This year’s conference will provide equal focus to six main streams: green microfinance; investors, donors and funders; rural finance; social performance; digital innovations and the 2016 European Microfinance Award topic of Access to Education.

Within these six broad streams, there will be a fantastic line-up of plenary sessions: ‘Microfinance and Access to Education’; ‘Microfinance and Housing, One Brick at a Time’; and ‘Digital Finance: Full Inclusion or Empty Promise?’, and over twenty workshops on Thursday 17^th and Friday 18^th November, complementing the work of the e-MFP Action Groups, which will meet on Wednesday 16^th to discuss the work undertaken over the previous year and the plans for 2017.

Confirmed speakers include: Mark van Doesburgh, Triple Jump; Greta Bull, CGAP; Sanjay Sinha, M-Cril; Edvardas Bumsteinas, European Investment Bank; Amelia Greenberg, SPTF; Lucia Spaggieri, Microfinanza Rating; Dave van Niekerk, MyBucks; Sébastien Duquet, OXUS; Jhaleh Hajiyeva, Azerbaijan Micro-finance Association; Roland Dominicé, Symbiotics; Anne Contreras, Arendt & Medernach; Davide Forcella, CERMi; Graham Wright, MicroSave; Kenneth Okakwu, LAPO Microfinance Bank.

Christoph Pausch, Executive Secretary of e-MFP, says: “In ten years, the European Microfinance Platform has grown to be a really important voice for the European microfinance industry working in developing countries, and European Microfinance Week – including the Award – is more interesting and engaging than ever, and something we are very proud of. This year particularly, we look forward to welcoming people from all over the world to join e-MFP in supporting the sector and identifying and influencing the innovations yet to come”.

For more information and to register visit www.e-mfp.eu