The Carsey Institute’s Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program (SMDP) provides training and networking opportunities for practitioners in the fields of microfinance, enterprise development, social enterprise, community based and rural development. The SMDP offers an intensive and highly relevant professional development training experience with a concentration on program planning, implementation, and impact evaluation.
Course topics cover a wide range of best practices from financial, risk and human resource management, social performance monitoring and evaluation, value chain and ProPoor market development, social enterprise, microfinance investment readiness, inclusive youth financial services, and sustainable responses to climate change.
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Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program 2010
March 15- March 27, 2010, Accra, Ghana
(in cooperation with the Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network - GHAMFIN)
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May 31- June 12, 2010, Durham, NH
(on the University of New Hampshire campus)
October 11- October 23, 2010, Zanzibar, Tanzania