Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit 2008

Microcredit Summit Campaign

Location: Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia
Date: 28-30 July 2008

Background

The Microcredit Summit Campaign brings together microcredit practitioners, advocates, educational institutions, donor agencies, international financial institutions, non-governmental organizations and others involved with microcredit to promote best practices in the field and to stimulate the interchanging of knowledge.

The first Microcredit Summit was held February 2-4, 1997 and gathered more than 2,900 people from 137 countries to Washington, DC. Since then, each proceeding summit has worked to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the end of 2015 Furthermore, worked to ensure that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), between 1990 and 2015.

Conference Aims

The core themes of the Microcredit Summit Campaign are:

• Reaching the poorest
• Reaching and empowering women
• Building financially self-sufficient institutions
• Ensuring a positive, measurable impact on the lives of clients and their families

Reasons to Attend:

• Great Networking Opportunities. The Microcredit Summit Campaign's conferences are the largest microfinance gatherings in the world, which assemble a full range of those active in the field of microfinance including practitioners, advocates, investors, UN agencies, donors, domestic government agencies, and many more.
• Exciting Opening Ceremony Speakers. The Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit anticipates the participation of Heads of State, high-level government officials and other VIPs at its Opening Ceremony and throughout the conference.
• Contemporary Global Issues in Asia-Pacific. Major topics in the international microfinance field and those specific to the region will be offered at the Asia-Pacific Regional Microcredit Summit.
• In-depth Plenary Sessions. 4 detailed papers commissioned for plenary sessions will be discussed by the authors and other leaders.
• Broad Range of Workshop Sessions. 3 sets of diverse workshop sessions covering a variety of topics will be presented by specialists in the field.
• Interactive Day-Long Courses. 5 intensive day-long courses valuable for applying theory to practice will be available on an optional fourth day.
• Opportunity to Present Work. Delegates may apply to host an associated session on a topic of their choice or to organize a booth in the exhibition hall.