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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For more information, please visit: www.wam-canada.ca
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