SAM - African Microfinance Week Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA 9-13 October, 2017 www.microfinance-africa.org SAM African Microfinance Week 2017 Take part in the greatest microfinance event in Africa!
Summary What is the African Microfinance Week? 3 Back to the SAM 2015 4 The 3 rd edition of the SAM 2017 8 About the organisers 11 Practical detail 13 ADA’s contact 14
What is the African Microfinance Week? The African Microfinance Week (SAM - Semaine Africaine de la Microfinance) is a biennal conference dedicated to the development of financial inclusion in Africa. Open to all microfjnance practitioners and related sectors, the SAM aims to become a common African platform that offers a true framework for discussion between all stake - holders in the sector, in order to accelerate the fjnancial inclusion and the economic growth of the continent. This common platform eases peer-to-peer exchanges and the search of synergies at regional and international level. SAM’s main target audience • Microfjnance top managers • Bankers • Public and private funders • Small and medium enterprises • Economic and political leaders and decision-makers • NGOs focusing on microfjnance and other relevant development issues • Financial inclusion operators African Microfinance Week 2017 - 3
57 50 75 4 80 53 Back to the SAM 2015 Accelerating innovative rural finance in Africa In 2015, the 2 nd edition of the SAM took place in Dakar, Senegal, on the theme ‘Accelerating innovative rural fjnance in Africa’. It brought together over 550 participants from 49 countries, including 36 African ones . 36 African countries represented in the SAM More than 300 organizations represented: NGOs research and microfinance public investors private academic institutions institutions companies institutes 4 - African Microfinance Week 2017
Governments committed • Mr Eugène Serufuli, Minister for Rural to microfinance Development of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The SAM 2015 was supported by the The ceremony was attended by several Government of the Grand Duchy of ministerial delegations including that of Benin, Luxembourg, through its Ministry of Foreign Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cabo Verde, Dji - and European Affairs, and specifjcally its bouti, Mauritania, Niger, DRC, Senegal, Chad Directorate for Development Cooperation and and Togo. Humanitarian Affairs, and by the Government of the Republic of Senegal, through its Ministry Delegate in charge of Microfjnance and Solidarity Economy. The event also benefjted from the High Patronage of His Excellency Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal. The 2015 Opening Ceremony was chaired by: • Mr Moustapha Diop, Minister, Ministry of Women, Family and Children, in charge of microfjnance and solidarity-based economy of Senegal; • Mr Romain Schneider, Minister for Devel - opment Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs of Luxembourg; Ethiopia Moustapha Diop, Minister, Ministry of Women, Family and Children, in charge of microfinance and solidarity-based economy of Senegal Eugène Serufuli, Minister for Rural Development of the Democratic Republic of Congo Lamine Gueye, President of APSFD Senegal (on the left) and Romain Schneider, Minister for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs of Luxembourg (on the right) African Microfinance Week 2017 - 5
Expert institutions in Not only a conference, but financial inclusion also numerous side events The conference programme was structured around The SAM 2015, on the sidelines of the two-day three plenary sessions, each declined in four parallel conference, hosted the general meetings of sessions around the theme Innovating to accelerate the organisers networks as well as workshops rural fjnance in Africa. and training courses organised by our various partners. These sessions were presented and moderated by In total, over 20 events were offered to experts from international organisations active in the participants. fjeld of fjnancial inclusion: Among the highlights of these additional activities, • Acción AFD – Agence Française de Développe - we can mention: ment • the Investor’s Fair • BAD – African Development Bank • the Innovation Fair • BEI – European Investment Bank • Research Meets Africa • CGAP – Consultative Group to Assist the Poor • FIDA – International Fund for Agricultural Devel - opment • FAO – Food and Agriculture Organisation The Investor’s Fair • GIZ – German Development Cooperation • IFC – World Bank Group Previously dedicated to rated MFIs, the 7th Investor’s Fair is now opened to all African MFIs • Mastercard Foundation (Tiers 1, 2 and 3) of the continent. • UNCDF In 2015, the Fair hosted 17 microfjnance investors, 2 rating agencies and over 60 MFIs. A total of 197 speed-dating meetings were held throughout the day. During the edition 2017, the morning will be devoted to speed-dating sessions between MFIs and investors. These sessions are scheduled in advance by organizers, based on requests 197 received by investors and MFIs registered in the event. Each meeting lasts 25 minutes. speed-dating The agenda of the afternoon will be free, and sessions participants will have the opportunity to take private meetings with investors. 60 IMF 17 investors The Proparco meeting table during the Investor’s Fair in 2015 6 - African Microfinance Week 2017
The Innovation Fair The fjrst Innovation Fair welcomed 20 new The Salon will be a wonderful meeting place for technology suppliers who presented their business services providers and actors able to innovative solutions to accelerate access to basic promote (policy makers, fjnancial institutions, land services for the rural population. development actors, donors and investors). The most relevant innovations were the subject of a presentation followed by a discussion with the audience. The Innovation Fair was supported by the MasterCard Foundation. This year, the Innovation Fair will invite MSME service providers. Exhibitors will present their successful initiatives of funding and support for African small business. Exhibition stands for innovators at the Innovation Fair in 2015. Research Meets Africa Workshops and trainings Numerous workshops and trainings will PhD students, researchers and international be organized on the days before and after experts were invited to participate in the the conference, so that participants can symposium Research Meets Africa, a UMM benefjt from their presence at the SAM. (University Meets Microfjnance) research During the SAM 2015, more than 20 workshop jointly organised by ADA and Positive events were proposed to the participants. Planet on ‘Promote research on innovation to accelerate rural fjnancial inclusion in Africa’. At the workshop, ten research papers were selected and presented to a hundred of participants. Two of these papers have won a prize of € 6,000 each, awarded by MFW4A. Once again, the 2017 edition will allow the authors of accepted articles to present the main results of their research. Sponsors and partners of the SAM 2015 African Microfinance Week 2017 - 7
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