Over 400 participants attended the courses organized in the last three years. Some of their feedback is as follows:
"All of the parts were complementary. Of particular interest to me were the various quantitative indicators to gauge the financial health of MFIs and the way that they are derived and used. Another interesting part is the policy and regulations."
"Loved the CLASSIC case study - this approach made learning fun and understandable and REAL Orinapa was a good exercise."
"The training was excellent -- and the field visit was the highlight of my trip. Bringing the training to the field was a plus factor because it highlighted how dynamic and varied the microfinance field is."
"I have really enjoyed this training; I have just been assigned a new microfinance portfolio therefore the timing is just right."
"I would like to thank you again for providing us with such a wonderful five-day workshop. I think we learned a lot about internationally recognized practices and methods."
"Very impressive preparation and course, excellent selection of participants, very rich and diversified course content."
In response to the question 'Would you recommend this course to others?' the participants of the December 2007 course in Indonesia replied:
"Country teams, government interlocutors and practitioners of microfinance;"
"My colleagues, government people;"
"My staff;"
"The MFI Donor Network, like USAID, GTZ, UNDP;"
"Other colleagues involved with the design and decision making regarding funding of MFIs."
Participants at the two-day training workshop hosted by the World Bank in May 2008 gave the training an overall score of 4.83, with a few comments such as:
"a great combination of technical and practical aspects"
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