wg presentation 2009 member orientation
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Working Groups
New online workspaces and communities of practice
Our working groups
New online workspaces and communities of practice
FINANCE
ENTERPRISEDEVELOPMENT
NETWORKS & ASSOCIATIONS
FINANCIAL Services
SAVINGS-LED Finance
IMPROVING Organizational Efficiency
OPERATIONALIZING Client Assessment
FRAME – MIS Tool for MFI Performance Measurement
NETWORK Development Exchange
GLOBAL Network Summit
MICROFINANCE Network Capacity Assessment
MEMBER Feedback Tool
POLICY Advocacy
YOUTH & Workforce Development
MICROENTERPRISE & HIV
SOCIAL Performance
CONSUMER Protection
FINANCIAL Reporting Standards
METRICS for Measuring Network Success
FINANCIAL Performance Monitoring for Microfinance Associations
GLOBAL Enterprise Development Network
ENTERPRISE Development Exchange
URBAN VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT
SUSTAINABILITY AND SCALE-UP
MARKET Development
MARKET Facilitation
SOCIAL Enterprise
ENERGY Microfinance
ECONOMIC Recovery Standards
Value Chain Finance
POVERTY Outreach and Assessment
Communities of Practice
http://members.seepnetwork.org
New WG workspacesCreate your own
user account
Log into the workspace
Extranet homepage
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 ([email protected]) 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
1. Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)
2. HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED) Working Group
3. 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)
Working Groups
• 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
• Sub working groups1. Subsidies Group (Agricultural Technical Knowledge products and
services): 2. (Horizontal and Vertical) Linkages Group: 3. 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
Other potential learning initiatives …
Energy and the environmentInvestment readiness
Consumer protection
Youth and …
Financial Literacy
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Non-English online workspaces• Topic-based• Discussion spaces offered in the participants’ own language• International, bi-lingual facilitator• Share among spaces!
• Synergies, differences, and/or lessons learned