MFMI Learning Programs encourage trainers and academics to shape their own courses around needed knowledge on microfinance business models and management development frameworks. The Learning Programs are organized as regional workshops, giving MFMI members the opportunity to share their experiences and challenges on microfinance training and academic programs.
The 2008 Schedule of Regional Learning Workshops:
- Asia: January 2008, Philippines
- Africa: July 2008, Egypt
- Latin America: October 2008
- Middle East and North Africa and Central and Eastern Europe: 2008
The MFMI hosted its fourth and fifth network and skills-building meetings in the summer of 2007, in collaboration with two of its existing network members. The meetings brought together 17 organizations from Latin America, as hosted by INCAE Business School in Costa Rica and another 15 African institutions during the same week of the African Microfinance Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Reports from these meetings are available from the MFMI.
The MFMI's activities focus on the ability of trainers and academics to:
- integrate microfinance practice with general principles and theories of organizational and management
- understand that contextualization is key for both student and practitioner audiences
- design and develop effective learning tools with keeping evaluation objectives in mind.
Learning Support