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Global Microcredit
Summit 2006 meeting in Halifax, November 12-15
Launched in 1997, the Microcredit Summit Campaign has four core themes:
1) reaching the poorest, 2) reaching and empowering women, 3) building
financially self-sufficient institutions, and 4) ensuring a positive,
measurable impact on the lives of the clients and their families.
The 2006 Summit will extend the Campaign to 2015 with two new goals:
1. Working 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.
2. Working to
ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families move from below
US$1 a day adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP) to above US$1 a
day adjusted for PPP by the end of 2015.
The Global Microcredit Summit is open to anyone interested in the field
of microfinance: practitioners, government officials, representatives
from NGOs, corporations, foundations, and every other sector of society.
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