Microfinance provides financial services to the world’s poor, now reaching 125million+ in over 100 countries. Recent controversies question its claims about reducing poverty. Our seven weeks’ t
Our Practical Microfinance course offers sound skills in an interactive seven weeks’ course led by world experts. Here are issues that participating in our course and optional field work address
•    Get inside our case study microfinance organisations to know how they tick, learn how to do authentic due diligence and come up with solutions to help them prosper and serve their clients better with targeted products
•    Discover ways you and your organisation could engage with microfinance organisations to help them with their governance, structure and reporting in the short and long term as ‘actual and virtual consultants’
•    Make your ‘day job’ skills apply to microfinance and microenterprise development so you can make a difference
•    Appreciate the growing role of microinsurance, how it differs from standard insurance and its social and economic impact on keeping people above the poverty line after they have climbed above it
•    Understand why social impact reporting has become a crucial issue and the measurement challenges
•    Network for project, career and investment opportunities by knowing more about the ‘inside story’ of microfinance and micro, SME development
•    Link with our optional fieldwork in the UK, Guatemala or Ghana and maximise course learning – for many, this is a life changing experience.