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WAM Canada Speaker Series |
Microfinance and women's empowerment:
Myths, realities and ways forward WHAT: A conference by Linda Mayoux WHEN: Thursday, October 29, 2009
6:00 p.m.
Kindly arrive ten minutes early for registration WHERE: MasterCard Foundation
2 St Clair Avenue East, Suite 301
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M4T 2T5 ABOUT OUR SPEAKER:  Dr. Linda Mayoux is an international consultant who has worked on gender mainstreaming and women's empowerment in microfinance since 1997 for DFID, UNIFEM, ILO, Aga Khan Foundation, Asian Development Bank, World Bank, IFAD, USAID, SDC and many NGOs in South Asia, Africa and Latin America. She is the author of the Rural Finance component of the World Bank's Gender and Livelihoods Source Book and a reader on Gender and Rural Finance for IFAD. She is a global consultant for Women's Economic Empowerment Mainstreaming and Networking (WEMAN) spearheaded by Oxfam NOVIB, a global process to remove gender discrimination in access to livelihood development services and policy making, including financial services, technical support, value chain development and local/regional/national economic policy making. As part of the WEMAN process, she manages the genfinance website and the genfinance discussion group.
ABOUT WAM CANADA: Women Advancing Microfinance (WAM) Canada is an organization for men and women to advance and support women working in microfinance and enterprise development through the promotion of education, training and leadership opportunities, and by working to increase the visibility of global microfinance and enterprise development work amongst Canadians. WAM Canada is a chapter of WAM International. RSVP:
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Welcome to WAM Uganda - the first WAM chapter in Africa.
About Us
Between 30-40 women attended the April 16, 2004 launch, together with a number of key men who have been important in supporting the microfinance industry in Uganda. The launch was televised locally and included remarks by the President of WAM Uganda, Clare Wavamunno, the President of WAM International, Deborah Burand, and others, including a female Parliamentarian. Representatives of WAM International also were in attendance.
A key focus of WAM Uganda is to provide women in the microfinance industry of Uganda with a place where they can mentor, inspire and renew each other - personally and professionally.
Membership
WAM Uganda's membership currently includes women from a variety of Ugandan microfinance institutions, consultants, AMFIU (the Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda), and Bank of Uganda.
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Welcome to WAM Northern California. Launched on October 2, 2006, WAM Northern California seeks to advance WAM's mission in the San Francisco Bay Area, although we have members coming from Sacramento, Davis and Los Angeles. The mission of WAM Northern Califorinia is to advance the microfinance industry by supporting women in the industry in their professional development, promoting leadership opportunities, and increasing visibility of their participation and talent while maintaining a work/life balance. If you are interested in learning more, please contact Andrea Forker at
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Welcome to WAM New York, a professional organization established to bring together women in the microfinance industry in the New York area to promote leadership opportunities, expand professional networks, and increase non-work related activities to achieve strong work/life balance.
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