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2010 Annual Conference and General Assembly
from 05/10/2010 to 09/10/2010
Accra, Ghana
From October 5th to 9th, 2010, the Africa Microfinance Network (AFMIN) will organize its 9th Annual Conference on the theme "Access to Financial Services: Reaching the Poor and Excluded"....
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Advocacy and policy change
i. AFMIN participated to key international and regional meetings to create awareness about the AFMIN consensus statement on sound policy for microfinance. The meetings which AFMIN participated includes:- AMAF/WWB Meeting on Diagnostic of Microfinance Industry in Africa (Nairobi, June 2009)
- 2009 Social Performance Task Force Meeting (Madrid, June 2009
- 2008 Global Network Summit(Arlington, December 2008)
- Microcredits for development: Asia and Africa (Madrid, June 2008)
- 2008 Technology Forum: Access to Finance (Yaoundé, July 2008)
- 2007 Global network Summit (Washington, December 2007)
- Steering Committee of UNCDF (Antananarivo, March 2007)
- 2007 AMAF Forum (Casablanca, March 2007)
- Participation To Halifax Microcredit Summit (November 2006)
- Participation to UNCDF conference on Building Inclusive Financial Sector in Africa (2006)
- The Meeting of the Ministries of Finance from the African countries affiliated to the Franc zone (UEMOA, CEMAC and Comoros)
- The Middle East and Africa Microcredit Summit
- The international Conference of Paris
- The French Speaking Meeting in Tunis
- The UN Expert Group Meeting in New York
- The Blue Book meeting in Geneva
AFMIN conducted in collaboration with WWB an inventory of policy framework in the diferent countries with view to enforce effective national policies and strategies for microfinance. This includes:- Ethiopia
- Kenya
- Uganda
- Zimbabwe
- Malawi
- Tanzania
- South Africa
AFMIN organised with support from WWB and network members two policy workshops on:- Reviewing the "PARMEC law" to better respond to the needs and expectation of the industry in UEMOA zone and
- Building Effective National Policy and Strategies in East and South Africa
