Norman & MicroSummits

[chris macrae]

This is first microcreditsummit Norman was not alive for being debriefed on

Opening Opening Ceremony - Monday November 14th, 10:00-12:00hrs (local time in Spain/9:00-11:00hrs GMT Her Majesty Queen Sofia of Spain with Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Minister of Foreign Affairs, President of the Regional Government of Castilla, The Mayor of Valladolid, and Sam Daley-Harris Director of Years 1 thru 15 of Microcreditsummit (download journal of new economics, special issue on knowledge action nets over 15 years)                                                     Monday, November 14, 2011 - 14:30-16:00hrs
Beyond ‘Ethical’ Financial Services: Developing a Seal of Excellence for Poverty Outreach and Transformation in MicrofinanceAbstract
Chair:	Manuel Méndez del Río Piovich, President, Fundación Microfinanzas BBVA, Spain
Author:	Frances Sinha, Director, EDA Rural Systems, India
Panelists:	Isabel Cruz hernandez, President, Foro Latinoamericano y del Caribe de Finanzas Rurales (FOROLACFR), Mexico
	Anne Hastings, CEO, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti
	Christopher Dunford, Senior Research Fellow, Freedom from Hunger, USA
	John de Wit, Managing Director, The Small Enterprise Foundation (SEF), South Africa
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 9:00-10:30hrs
Challenges to the Field and Solutions: Over-Indebtedness, Client Drop-Outs, Unethical Collection Practices, Exorbitant Interest Rates,
Abstract	Exeutive Summary
Chair:	Shari Berenbach, Director of Microenterprise Development, USAID, USA
Author:	Anton Simanowitz, Founder, Imp-Act Consortium, United Kingdom
Panelist:	Tilman Ehrbeck, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), USA
	Wolday Amha, Director, AEMFI, Ethiopia
	Roshaneh Zafar, Managing Director, Kashf Foundation, Pakistan
	Fabiola Céspedes Quiroga, Social Performance Coordinator, FOROLACFR, Bolivia
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 - 14:00-15:30hrs
Social Business and Microfinance: Building Partnerships with Corporations and Other Entities To Speed the End of PovertyAbstract
Chair:	Dª Soraya Rodríguez Ramos, Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación, Spain
Author:	Prof. Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh
Panelists:	Franck Riboud, Chairman & CEO, Groupe Danone, France
	Antonio Romero, Director del Área Asociativa, Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros (CECA), Spain
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 9:00-10:30hrs
A Guided Inquiry and Discussion: Where Do You Want the Field to Be in 10 Years or More and What Could You or Your Institution ? Abstract
Author:	Dave Ellis, President, The Brande Foundation, USA
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 14:00-15:30hrs
Presentation of Institutional Action Plans (IAP)
Panelists:	Sir Fazle Abed, Founder, BRAC, Bangladesh
	Gauthier Dieudonne, Director, CLM/ Ti-kredi Program, Fonkoze Financial Services, Haiti
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 - 16:00-17:30hrs
Using Microfinance Plus Agricultural Services to Improve Rural Livelihoods and Food SecurityAbstract
Authors:	Shameran Abed (Presenter), Program Head for Microfinance, BRAC, Bangladesh
	Susan Davis, President & CEO, BRAC USA, USA
	Dr. Mahabub Hossain, Executive Director, BRAC and BRAC International, Bangladesh
	Rod Dubitsky, Executive Vice President, PIMCO Advisory Group, USA
Towards Reinventing Microfinance through Solving the “Last Mile Problem”: Bringing Clean Energy Solutions and Actionable  Abstract
Author:	Alex Counts, President & CEO, Grameen Foundation, USA
Chair:	Ranya Abdel-Baki, Executive Director, Sanabel - The Microfinance Network of Arab Countries, Egypt
Panelists:	Prakash Bakshi, Chairman, National Bank of Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD), India
	Nicola Armacost, Managing Director and Co-founder, ARC Finance, USA

 

[chris macrae]

here are some ways into the special issue of journal of new economics (attached) reviewing 15 years of knowledge networking at Microcreditsummit

 

Pages From Journal of Social Business & New Economics – Special Issue: MIcrocreditSummit 15

 

TO ACTION GOALS THAT OTHER SUMMIT NETWORKS ONLY DREAM OF

Page 5 : John Hatch: 1994 Vision

 Behold the largest self-help undertaking in human history – bringing hope, dignity, and empowerment to tens of millions of the world’s poor and poorest families. Behold a movement with global outreach that has penetrated beyond city slums and market towns to even the most isolated villages. Behold an industry that embraces thousands of NGOs, credit unions, public and private banks, and an infrastructure of hundreds of thousands of community-based peer lending groups that are enabling many of the planet’s most disadvantaged households to generate the additional income and savings they need to keep their children alive, nourished, healthy, and able to attend school.

 

ASKING YOU ALL MAKE THIS KNOWN AS THE SUMMIT OF JUSTICE

Page 17, HM Queen Sofia of Spain, 1997 Speech at Summit 1

We are convinced that poverty is the denial of every human right and its eradication the speediest way of bringing down the invisible barrier which isolates the most deprived from the rest of the world. And this is the best homage we can render to the millions of men and women who have set their expectations on this Summit, which I hope shall be known in the future as the Summit of justice and solidarity.’

 

TO DO OR NOT TO DO

Page 10: Muhammad Yunus, 1997 Speech at Summit 1

The momentum for change is clearly in place.. If we try to imagine what the world will be like twenty-five years from today, we would have to create science fiction. The real question is whether these changes will bring the human race closer to or farther away from desirable social and economic conditions. The answer is obvious. If we consider ourselves passengers on ‘Spaceship Earth’, we will find ourselves on a pilotless journey with no discernable route to follow. If we can convince ourselves that we are actually the crew of this spaceship, and that we must reach a specific socioeconomic destination, then we will continue to approach that destination – even if we make mistakes or take detours along the way.

 

I MADE A SHORT TRIP TO DHAKA

Page 16:  HRH Prince Charles of Wales, The week after Summit 1

I had heard a little about Muhammad Yunus and his ideas from friends in Britain. I was most curious to meet him. I found a remarkable man. He not only spoke the greatest good sense but had, against huge odds and in the face of dreadful cynicism on the part of the so-called experts, followed his ideas through and made them work. I also found an inspiring, entertaining and confident interlocutor who sent me away with a new and invigorating sense of what can be achieved with energy and determination. I have since done all I can to encourage a wider consideration and appreciation of micro-credit. It is an essential part of any sensible mix of development policies – as Muhammad Yunus has demonstrated beyond

all doubt in Bangladesh. It has a use, too, in the developed world whether in remote rural Norway or run-down suburbs of British cities. It is remarkably cost-effective.

 

IN 1843 JAMES WILSON LAUNCHED THE ECONOMIST IN SEARCH OF ENDING HUNGER 

Page 24: Chris Macrae, Remembrance Party, The Economist’s Unacknowledged Giant, Fall 2010

My dad’s livelihood of entrepreneurial journalism on what is and isn’t economical about marketing practices goes back to 1949 when he joined The Economist magazine. His curiosity and love of life had helped him to teach himself basic precepts of economics from

an Indian correspondence course while working as a teenager to navigate RAF planes in World War II out of modern-day Bangladesh. My family and friends have become ever more concerned as to how.markets can be used in two opposite ways:

• Dismally to become ever less economical and less sustainable

• Optimistically to free (lively young) peoples’ productivities and communities’ sustainability.

(We welcome all who wish to celebrate this 2^nd kind of economics at this Kenyan innovation beyond a wiki http://neweconomics.crowdmap.com

 

[chris macrae]

index to journal attached

[chris macrae]

I flew over from 3 days in spain microcreditsummit 14 nov to 16 nov 1 day in brussels 18 nov - see starup log at www.entrepreneurialunion.com - the combinatin od tehse summits needs time to reflect on what to connect next; I expect that the following brief notes will need urgent corrections over time

 

NICK HURD - if Europe's Union is to have a future it will depend on which collaborative social business entrepreneurs we invest in first= this is a historic moment for the working lives of generations to come (not since the battle of britain has so much depended on what so few can liberate)
 
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In the light of such motion, I am having to reassess everything that has a Bangladesh or microcredit connection . I will assume unless I hear to the contrary that chris temple , estelle, and you (mostofa) dont mind me wondering aloud. Your youth networks merit being far more than their parts but its most unlikely yunus centre will help with any such thing (brac may be a different case but I come from a slow start in being networked with its leading people)
 
at a broad level:
 
Bangladesh
B1 I get the feeling that mrs begum isnt well or young enough to lead much by herself -even in educational fields - so absent of some news on your side she isnt going to build anything with www.cmseducation.org  other than that you may link in if sunita gandhi visits dhaka- did derrick at british council share anything with you on his favourite education projects; have you got any leads for me at embassies in DC (british, japan, anywhere)
 
b1.1 post-vienna, I find the general dynamic of the hub extremely non-u but since each hub has a different owner and I have 2 major project inquiries outstanding with 2 different owners I need to see whether either of those is sustainable in spite of the mass of the hub now likely to PR yunus in all the ways that put him most at danger
 
B2 I havent heard anything from tania zaman about her discussions with sir fazle abed on specific action requests; its now best I meet her back in bethesda; once I have done that I will report back; I am also stuck on various relationships on value chain economic mapping at usaid, world bank and care until I meet tania
 
B3 Yunus continues to tell stories as if he can arrange any sb partnership in bangladesh; I dont want to go near any such projects until it becomes clear what hasina new social business law is about and who the new ceo of grameen is and what the final structoure of the grameen board is; its great that he looks almost as ebullient as he ever did but it seems to me everything he talks about is now a concept without an action network except where a residential partner builds it. I will continue frank discussions I have with people like emmmanuel marchant on what yunus projects france will perpetuate - eg the SMBA and the eG8 will never happen positively around yunus unless france takes responsibility for that; I believed I have started a good enough contact with maria nowak but that is to be tested next time I visit france; france has some extraordinary radical people working inside banking with their 3000 annual convergence meeting and with babyloan catching up as europe's kiva
 
b.3.1 right now with the exception of monica www.singforhope.org ,  the only usa project of yunus that I know about action networking in a hi-trust collaborative manner is the youth 1000 brainstom; I asked yunus to explain this in front of 800 europeans in brussels; his reply made their mouths water- hopefully the video will appear from out of the eu records soon; therefore working out which usa state can next find 40000 dollars to stage a youth1000 is urgent given that professor buyian is dedicating a whole year to this; I still think texas because of john mackey should be one; I am puzzled because grameen intel is actually based in oregon not califormia and I dont know if either state is the type to linkin all its colleges
 
b3.2 I strongly recommend anyone who has a relationship with sam daley harris keep chatting with him to understand what help he needs with his new civil society network; unfortunately every network he builds shows no signs of linking in economists who might want to chnage their profession even though civil society in europe means precisely that - eg nick hurd with his half billion dollar fund for youth and community entrepreneur experiments is called minister of civil society and speaks at brussels of historic times where the future of any europena union depends on peoples need to search out who will produce the futures greatest solutions knowing that the usual economists are going to be no help at all
 
E1 am trying to see if sarah butler-sloss will give me half an hour this side of the new year; if not I need to think where else in europe to try and link through most;
 
E2 it turns out that the eu is 4 years into wanting to learn how microcredit can put europe back to work but has almost zero connections with sams networkers except with what moves out of france; east europe is its other centre of gravity in linking together microcreidt organosations; however nazrul in spain is a fantastic doer and I need to find out where in EU to connect him, and so help connect queen sofia with what eu may find out to help different nations recover through microcredit
 
E3 the g20 meeting in cannes got so messed up by greece that I dont know if sarkozy feels involved in anything any more and since he had a public row with cameron, its not exactly likely that he is going to adopt the doramt account model for refunding french youth entrepreneurship; I wil see if the strongest french economiost I know who workds at dc embassy will schedule a meet with me
 
E4 bizarre it is that brussels is now a world centre of social business investment but seems to be creating investor channels in euroepan countries who are mainly new to social business world, and which we cant straight forwardly  connect because of the hans conflict;
 
A1 in africa I get on really well with ingrid munro and peter ryan; if people want to intern with either of these two I believe I can help maximise mutual benefits; but since the rumor is hans is being paid by UN to do sb tour of africa, I dont believe in any yunus links through africa as being ones that will be mutually beneficial
 
A2 there is so much great stuff at MIT linking through africa and eg mastercard foundation which I am currently at a negative advantage to linkiing in because I am a known yunus networker
 
A3 I found out that buried away in grameen foundation there are 100 technolgy networkers in 6 countries inclding 50 in uganda with a lot of grants coming from gates foundation; I dont know if naila dreams of any tech futures of yunus being made by herself but if so she needs to linkin with tehse folk
 
I will slowly find out what grameen intel and grameen danone and whole planet foundation as the 3 greatest ciorporate partners of yunus see as ways to collaborate with each other
chris 1 -301 881 1655  skype chrismacraedc
 
in terms of wiking real cases I suggest http://neweconomics.crowdmap.com and http://socialbusiness.ning.com - say if any of you want me to fix settings so you can fully mpderate tehse data connecting spaces; my fathers main surveys are all readable at http://normanmacrae.ning.com as are more personal logs of relationship permissions I seem to make in cha;lenging people to join in making 2010s youths most productive decade
 
 
 

From: Mostofa Zaman Sent: Monday, 21 November 2011, 13:02
Subject: Re: eu summit on microcredit dec 2 brussels

Hi Chris:
 
Thanks. The UK minister for civil society (Nick Hurd) you chatted to on Friday was specialised on environment/climate change since entering into parliament http://www.nickhurd.com/about