3. Communities of Practice Financial Services Savings-Led Finance Improving Organizational Efficiency Operationalizing Client Assessment FRAME – MIS Tool for MFI Performance Measurement Youth & Workforce Development Microenterprise & HIV Social Performance Consumer Protection FINANCE Financial Reporting Standards Metrics for Measuring Network Success Financial Performance Monitoring for Microfinance Associations Energy Microfinance Economic Recovery Standards Value Chain Finance Poverty Outreach and Assessment NETWORKS & ASSOCIATIONS ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT Network Development Exchange Global Network Summit Microfinance Network CapacityAssessment Member Feedback Tool Policy Advocacy Urban Value Chain Development Sustainability and Scale-Up Market Development Market Facilitation Social Enterprise Global Enterprise Development Network Enterprise Development Exchange
5. On your own Visit http://members.seepnetwork.org Create a user account: a very simple process, you provide your real name and email, create a user name, select your organization from a drop-down menu and a confirmation email will be sent to you Once you have received confirmation and logged into the extranet, you will see a list of our working groups and “JOIN HAMED”, etc. Click on that link to send a request to staff to add you to a working group. With staff help Send an email to Jeanne Long (long@seepnetwork.org) with your name, organization, email, and which working group(s) you would like to join You may join as many working groups as you would like. Once added, a welcome email will be sent to you with instructions on how to use the workspace, and the facilitator will follow up with an orientation. How to join a working group
6. Working Groups 1. Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)2. HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED) Working Group3. Financial Services Working Group (FSWG)4. Poverty Outreach Working Group (POWG)5. Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group (SLWG)6. Social Performance Working Group (SPWG)
7. Learning Agenda Themes HIV & micro-insurance HIV & savings and credit-led approaches HIV & social protection agenda via cash transfers Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), HIV and economic strengthening Improving and updating The SEEP Guidelines (http://communities.seepnetwork.org/hamed/The_SEEP_Guidelines) Planned Activities Develop creative and innovative ways to encourage the use of the website and its existing resources Identify and document promising practices and lessons learned from the field “Climbing the Ladder to Integrated Programming” (defining progression of program quality to be profiled in case studies) Development of a webinar for website training and to increase website use Six case studies, three online conferences, three conference reports HAMED HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development Working Group HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development
8. Sub working groups Subsidies Group (Agricultural Technical Knowledge products and services): (Horizontal and Vertical) Linkages Group: Capacity Building (of Facilitators) Group: Planned Activities Analyze cases where community-based market facilitation has been used successfully and unsuccessfully Subsidies: develop best practice guidelines; identify and analyze case studies Linkage: build a set of principles and guidelines; conduct an assessment of tools MaFI Market Facilitation Initiative Market Facilitation Initiative
9. Learning Agenda Themes Reporting standards Internal audit toolkit Board governance and audit guide Reviewing capital and savings ratios for update to Framework Planned Activities Microfinance Reporting Standards Initiative microLINKS events July 15: "New Developments in Reporting Standards for the Microfinance Industry," (in person) July 21-23: "Online World-wide Dialogue on Reporting Standards for Microfinance Industry," (virtual) June: IFRS discussion board for SEEP MF practitioners: questions and feedback on International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards (IAS and IFRS) for MFIs Promote and disseminate the Internal Audit Toolkit FSWG Financial Services Working Group Financial Services Working Group
10. Learning Agenda Themes Frameworks for defining poverty: Utility of poverty tools (PPI, PAT) beyond compliance Planned Activities Develop a training module for program design based on results from poverty tools Monday training session at AC: “Beyond good intentions: designing products that meet the livelihood needs of very poor households and delivery mechanisms that reach them” Q & A: Pros and cons of PAT, PPI A series of tech notes on sampling Coordination and sharing of knowledge with non-SEEP actors in poverty outreach Poverty Outreach conference in 2010 POWG Poverty Outreach Working Group Poverty Outreach Working Group
11. Learning Agenda Theme “Bringing a Social Intervention to Market – SEEP Standards for Social Performance” Stakeholder engagement strategy Indicator review and validation Technical standards development Planned Activities Development of social performance standards for SEEP Network Members Ensuring that the practitioner voice is well articulated in the international discussion currently focusing on social performance. Play a key role in the Governance Steering Committee of the Social Performance Task Force. SPWG Social Performance Working Group Social Performance Working Group
12. Learning Agenda Themes Replicating Agents Linkages (at 3 levels) To external sources of capital Within groups Between groups and other programs from the implementing agency (microfinance plus) Planned Activities Literature review => database Geographic mapping exercise Submit workshop proposals to SEEP AC SLWG Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group
13. Investment readiness Energy and the environment Other potential learning initiatives … ?? ?? Consumer protection Financial Literacy ?? Youth and … ?? ??
Learning Agenda ThemesHIV & micro-insuranceHIV & savings and credit-led approaches => online conference June 29HIV & social protection agenda via cash transfersOrphans and vulnerable children (OVC), HIV and economic strengtheningImproving and updating The SEEP Guidelines (http://communities.seepnetwork.org/hamed/The_SEEP_Guidelines) Planned ActivitiesDevelop creative and innovative ways to encourage the use of the website and its existing resourcesIdentify and document promising practices and lessons learned from the fieldClimbing the Ladders to Promising Practices in Integrated Programming (defining progression of program quality to be profiled in case studies)Development of a webinar for website training and to increase website useSix case studies, three online conferences, three conference reports
Learning Agenda ThemesHIV & micro-insuranceHIV & savings and credit-led approaches => online conference June 29HIV & social protection agenda via cash transfersOrphans and vulnerable children (OVC), HIV and economic strengtheningImproving and updating The SEEP Guidelines (http://communities.seepnetwork.org/hamed/The_SEEP_Guidelines) Planned ActivitiesDevelop creative and innovative ways to encourage the use of the website and its existing resourcesIdentify and document promising practices and lessons learned from the fieldClimbing the Ladders to Promising Practices in Integrated Programming (defining progression of program quality to be profiled in case studies)Development of a webinar for website training and to increase website useSix case studies, three online conferences, three conference reports
Sub working groupsSubsidies Group (Agricultural Technical Knowledge products and services): Use of subsidies to stimulate supply and/or demandHow alternatives to subsidies have been used to stimulate supply and/or demand(Horizontal and Vertical) Linkages Group: Assessment and mitigation of risks perceived by market stakeholders in the formation of linkages Awareness raising and creation of incentives for the formation of linkages Identification of critical market stakeholders For the Capacity Building (of Facilitators) Group: Who: own staff , partner NGOs, government officials, market actors (including marginalized producers) Note: the WG agreed that market actors of any type can play a facilitation role (e.g., a lead firm organizing a training session for their suppliers; or an intermediary providing price information to a farmer, etc)Planned ActivitiesDevelop best practice guidelines to help facilitators use subsidiesIdentify and analyze case studies involving successful subsidy useBuild a set of principles and guidelines regarding the assessment & mitigation of risks, awareness raising, and creation of incentives for linkage formationConduct an assessment of tools used for market stakeholder identification and linkage facilitationAnalyze cases where community-based market facilitation has been used successfully and unsuccessfully
Learning Agenda ThemesFrameworks for defining poverty: Services Not AccessibleServices Not AppropriateServices Not EnoughUtility of poverty tools (PPI, PAT) beyond compliancePlanned ActivitiesDevelop a training module for program design based on results from poverty toolsMonday training session at AC: “Beyond good intentions: designing products that meet the livelihood needs of very poor households and delivery mechanisms that reach them”Q & A: Pros and cons of PAT, PPIA series of tech notes on samplingCoordination and sharing of knowledge with non-SEEP actors in poverty outreachAction research and dialogue about sequencing financial and non-financial services
Learning Agenda ThemesReplicating Agents Process of villager replication, with a focus on sustainability. The various organizations to share the learnings derived from their different approaches. The purpose is to understand the different mechanism and focus on evidence from the different organizations. Linkages (at 3 levels) To external sources of capital (productive or negative links). Consider the following questions: Does it work? Under what conditions? What are approaches of different agencies? Linkages among groups. Consider various forms of associations within the groups. Lessons learned, pitfalls, traps, conditions for success. Linkage between groups and other programs from the implementing agency (microfinance plus) Planned ActivitiesLiterature review to establish a database of practitioner-focused resources (operational studies, impact and evaluation studies, and training materials)Mapping exercise: geographic information displaying where SLWG member organizations are implementing community-based savings-led microfinance programsSubmit workshop proposals to SEEP AC
Topic-based, simultaneous discussion spaces conducted in the participants’ own languageStart with English, French, Spanish Topic identified by priorities articulated by membersInternational, bi-lingual facilitator for each language/ topicFacilitators will report on discussions on-going in their space; they will coordinate, find synergies, differences, and/or lessons learned among their discussions to then report back to their group.