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SUMMARY:Webinar on Investor Responses to COVID-19 in collaboration with CDC
DESCRIPTION:At the end of 2020 the majority of countries\, particularly emerging markets\, were in recession stemming from the fallout of COVID-19\, with the impact on financial institutions being highly correlated to the macroeconomy. Given the scale of the challenge\, support was needed not only to mitigate the worse effects of COVID-19\, but also for FIs and their clients to adapt and build resilience against future impacts e.g. from further waves\, other pandemics\, or natural disasters. Furthermore\, Global FDI flows fell 49% in the first half of 2020 compared to 2019\, with evidence of capital flight particularly from emerging markets; UNCTAD reported a 28% fall in foreign direct investment to Africa and a 12% fall in Asia in this period. \nFIF UK / CDC Webinar on Investor Responses to COVID-19 \n \nIn this context\, DFIs and Impact Funds provided critical support as counter-cyclical investors via multiple investment solutions – equity financing\, debt financing\, and technical assistance – supporting institutions and businesses with their immediate liquidity needs and enabling them to meet the economic and health challenges of the crisis. Beyond capital\, investor thought leadership and collaborations ranged from guidelines on borrower payment deferrals to principles for technical assistance e.g. client and job protection and remote working. \n  \nJoin us for a panel conversation and Q&A to hear further insights on a variety of key investor COVID-19 responses\, including case studies ranging from microfinance to trade finance facilities\, examples of collaboration\, and lessons learnt for future crises. \n  \nSPEAKERS:\n\nMaria Teresa Zappia – Chief Impact & Blended Finance Officer\, Deputy CEO\, Blue Orchard\nYvan Renaud – Chief Operating Officer\, Symbiotics\nMomina Aijazuddin – Global Head of Microfinance\, IFC\nFanny Serre – Group Head of Marketing & Customer Experience\, Advans\nFreddie Tucker – Investment Manager\, Trade & Supply Chain Finance\, CDC Group\nAlex Kucharski – Executive\, CDC Plus\, CDC Group\n\n  \nIntroduction by Paul Blyth\, Chairman – Financial Inclusion Forum UK. \nThe event will be moderated by Kate Hallam – Investment Director\, Financial Services Equity\, CDC Group.
URL:https://financialinclusionforum.org.uk/event/fif-uk-cdc-webinar-on-investor-responses-to-covid-19/
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SUMMARY:Financing of Low-Cost Non-State Education
DESCRIPTION:Join the Financial Inclusion Forum UK  and a global panel of experts on the 25th March at 1430 – 1600 GMT  for a webinar on Low Cost Non-State School financing \nIncreasing access to education is more important than ever for improving financial inclusion. \nFinancing of Low-Cost Non-State Education \n \nEven before the pandemic\, we knew approximately 260 million children were out of school – or one in five school-age child globally. And yet\, low- and middle-income countries comprise the top 15 countries in the world that spend the most on education as a proportion of their budget. It is clear we need alternative solutions\, including non-state actors\, to help close the gap in education access. \nToday\, the non-state education market share is over 25% of the total education market.  Increased demand for affordable non-state schools means there will be an additional 66 million new seats for children required by 2025 in low- and middle-income countries. \nHow can we unlock the full potential of affordable non-state schools to add more seats? How can the intersection of financial inclusion and education accelerate needed capital investments? What motivates current private sector actors already investing in education? \nIntroduction and Overview: Rod Dubitsky\, Executive Director\, Financial Inclusion Forum UK \nModerator: James Tooley\, Chancellor\, University of Buckingham \nPresenter: Scott Sheridan\, Director of Operations\, Opportunity EduFinance\, and Lead Author of the Non-State School Sector Report \nPanelists \n\nNjeri Kirumbi\, Deputy Regional Director Africa\,  Regional Education Finance Fund for Africa\, BlueOrchard Finance\nAndrina Schwartz\, Head of the Financial Inclusion Initiative\, Credit Suisse\nJohn Robert Okware\, Chief Relationship Officer\, Opportunity Bank Uganda\nBunmi Lawson\,CEO & Managing Director\, EdFin Microfinance Bank\, Nigeria
URL:https://financialinclusionforum.org.uk/event/webinar-financing-of-low-cost-non-state-education/
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SUMMARY:How Digital-ID Can Support Greater Financial Inclusion: Learning From International Experience
DESCRIPTION:Join the Financial Inclusion Forum UK  and a global panel of experts on the 25th February at 1400 – 1530 GMT  for a webinar on Digital ID and Financial Inclusion \nIncreasing access to Digital ID is more important than ever for improving financial inclusion. \nHow Digital-ID Can Support Greater Financial Inclusion: Learning From International Experience \n \nThe pandemic has accelerated the trend for service providers to move their product online or risk going out of business\, making traditional ID methods of onboarding customers more challenging. But what does the future hold for a post-pandemic world? Will we see a return to paper documents\, or will Digital ID become the new normal? Proponents of Digital-ID see it as an effective solution\, streamlining and speeding up identification processes\, reducing the cost of onboarding\, managing customer risk\, and preventing fraud. But just how inclusive is Digital-ID? Does it increase or decrease access to financial services\, including for people who have previously struggled with formal ID requirements? What are the downsides\, regulatory and technical hurdles of introducing Digital-ID? \nOur international panel of expert speakers shares their insight into how different Digital-ID approaches balance the twin goals of inclusion and security.  Join us for a comprehensive 90-minute session\, featuring how global Digital ID programmes are bringing services to excluded customers\, followed by a discussion about what the UK can learn from initiatives elsewhere. \n  \nModerator:\n Sian Williams\, Director of Policy and Innovation at Toynbee Hall and Director of FIF UK \n  \nPanelists:\n Dr. Sarah Walton\, Digital Consultant \n  \nShrikant Karwa\, Country Relationship Manager at Modular Open Source Identity Platform (MOSIP)  \n  \nFlorian Marcus\, Digital Transformation Adviser\, e-Estonia \n  \nEmrys Schoemaker\, Research Director at Caribou Digital \n  \nYiannis Theodorou\, Senior Director\, Digital Identity Programme\, GSMA \n  \nRadhika Kale\, Senior Project Manager | Strategic Industry Solutions at HSBC
URL:https://financialinclusionforum.org.uk/event/webinar-how-digital-id-can-support-greater-financial-inclusion-learning-from-international-experience/
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SUMMARY:Encouraging Inclusive Savings
DESCRIPTION:Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be… \nAn e-MFP/FIF UK Webinar on ‘Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings\nEncouraging Inclusive Savings \n \n  \nThe Financial Inclusion Forum UK (FIF UK) and the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) are pleased to invite you to join us for an open-to-all expert discussion on the state-of-the-art in savings behaviour and what different financial services providers are doing to innovate in the design and delivery of savings to low-income households and businesses.   \nFor the last several years\, e-MFP and the Financial Inclusion Forum UK hold an annual joint event which delves into the topic of the most recent European Microfinance Award (EMA)\, jointly organised by the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP)\, the Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs\, and the Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg (InFiNe.lu). In 2020\, the topic of the EMA was “Encouraging Effective & Inclusive Savings” and it received a record field of applications from financial service providers across the world who are innovating in how to design and deliver savings products suited to clients’ real needs – and how to encourage low-income groups to usefully save.  \nSavings is a broad\, complex and vibrant area of the financial inclusion sector\, with rich new learnings about what works (and when – and why) that are summarised in e-MFP’s recent paper on the topic together with the factors for success from the EMA2020. But as the consequences of Covid-19 become clearer\, one thing that has stood out from the Award process is that understanding clients’ savings motivation  and\, from that\, providing them with access to inclusive savings – for consumption smoothing\, long-term planning and\, especially now\, strengthening household resilience to sudden shocks – is more critical than ever.   \nFor this discussion\, we are delighted to welcome:  \n\nLaura Litvine\, who is Principal Advisor and head of the French office of the Behavioural Insights Team; \nGovinda Bahadur Raut\, who is Head of Micro and Small Banking at Muktinath Bikas Bank in Nepal –  winner of the European Microfinance Award 2020 for its adapted solidarity group savings model; \nJanet Hayes\, who is project lead of Savings at the Frontier\, an initiative of Oxford Policy Management and Mastercard Foundation; and \nAbed Darko\, who is CEO of DSS Platform Ltd\, a fintech in Ghana serving susu enterprises which is partner organisation of the Savings at the Frontier initiative. \n\nThe session will be led by Sam Mendelson\, who is a Board Member of FIF UK and Financial Inclusion Specialist at e-MFP\, part of the core EMA design and evaluation team and lead author of Encouraging Effective and Inclusive Savings.  \nThe webinar will take place on Tuesday\, January 12th\, 2021\, from 2-3pm UK time (3-4pm CET). We hope to see you then!
URL:https://financialinclusionforum.org.uk/event/webinar-encouraging-inclusive-savings-2/
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SUMMARY:Refugees in Times of Global Crisis
DESCRIPTION:World Refugee Day is just around the corner. With this year’s theme ‘Imagine’\, this is a time to celebrate the contributions\, creativity\, and resilience of refugees. We want to imagine a world where every refugee has access to the financial tools they need to be self-reliant and resilient\, to have hope and be able to embrace new opportunities. Yet the hard reality of job and livelihood losses is bearing heavily on refugees and forcibly displaced populations around the world — already some of the most vulnerable households. This panel discussion will highlight a few of the organisations that are committed and determined to do all they can to help refugees tackle these difficult circumstances. We will examine the financial lives of refugees and internally displaced persons during the COVID-19 crisis. Included in this discussion\, Opportunity International will share some key insights from their Financial Diaries work in two refugee settlements in Uganda\, Nakivale and Kiryandongo. UNCDF Rwanda and Mercy Corps will also share about some of their programmes with refugees and what has been learned during this time of global crisis. \nMODERATOR: \nPete Sparreboom – Director\, PHB Academy \n \nPete is the Director of PHB Academy\, PHB Development’s training and coaching practice. She has 25 years’ experience in the promotion of financial inclusion via traditional and digital delivery channels in Africa and Asia\, including the turnaround of a rural community banking institution on the verge of collapse in Mozambique. Pete is recognised for the effective way she uses the latest insights in adult education\, executive coaching and e-learning to help decision makers speed up the digitalisation of their institution and the economy.  \n  \nSPEAKERS: \nNoah Ssempijja – Refugee Program Coordinator\, Opportunity International \n \nNoah is Opportunity International’s Refugee Consortium Lead in Uganda\, responsible for field implementation and partnerships management\, as well as monitoring\, evaluation and learning. Noah provides strategic oversight in the implementation of Financial Diaries research across the refugee settlements. He has over 7 years’ experience leading innovative and impactful programmes for refugees\, including cash transfers. Noah is passionate about the use of evidence and data to guide programme implementation. \n  \nRoselyne Uwamahoro – Program Coordinator\, UNCDF Rwanda \n \nRoselyn has worked in the financial inclusion sector for the past 13 years. She is currently Programme Coordinator at the United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)\, where she is leading efforts to ensure no-one is left behind in the digital era\, especially the most vulnerable – Women\, Youth\, Refugees and MSMEs. Previously\, Roselyn was Head of Microfinance at Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) following a successful banking career. Roselyne holds an MBA in Project Management from Maastricht School of Management (MsM) and is an Alumni from Harvard Kennedy School on rethinking financial inclusion. \n  \nMike Warmington – Director\, Financial Inclusion\, Mercy Corps \n \nMike has worked in banking and financial inclusion for more than a decade. He currently leads Mercy Corps’ global financial inclusion work\, helping to set the agency’s strategy and provide technical support across more than 40 programme countries. Prior to Mercy Corps\, Mike spent more than 5 years with One Acre Fund\, leading the organisation’s microfinance partnerships work\, creating innovative partnerships in the cocoa sector\, and working with more traditional FSPs to better serve smallholder farmers. He previously served as Head of Operations at an MFI in Malawi and Zambia\, and as a project finance analyst with Dexia bank working on UK infrastructure projects.
URL:https://financialinclusionforum.org.uk/event/webinar-refugees-in-times-of-global-crisis/
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