Category: Microfinance

Eighteen management staff from BPI Globe BanKO attended the training course entitled “Delivering Pro-Poor Financial Services: Microcredit”. The course was delivered by SEDPI last August 22 – 24, in BPI Globe BanKO’s Head Office in San Juan. The course discusses the definition and principles of microfinance, the characteristics of microfinance clients and various methodologies in…

On August 13-18, 2012, Ateneo De Manila University (ADMU) and Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI) successfully conducted two trainings in Cabanatuan City under the Ateneo-SEDPI Microfinance Capacity Building Program. The two trainings, Proposal Writing and Delinquency Management for Disaster Situations, were the first batch of trainings conducted with Alalay sa Kaunlaran, Inc. (ASKI), SEDPI’s…

Twenty-three participants from seven different organizations participated in Risk Management, Internal Control and Audit course under the Ateneo-SEDPI Microfinance Capacity Building Program from August 2 to 4, 2012.  This is the third course run in 2012 with Quezon City–based training hub partner, Kasagana-Ka Development Center, Inc. (KDCI). Bank regulators from Bank Indonesia and Cambodia’s Ministry…

Twenty two participants from three different microfinance institutions participated in the “Delinquency Management” training course held on July 5-7, 2012 in Quezon City. The training explains different preventive and remedial strategies in managing delinquency in MFIs. The training event emphasizes the adaptation of a holistic approach in managing delinquency that involves the commitment of all…

Two training events were conducted in Cebu City on June 18-23, 2012 under the Ateneo-SEDPI Microfinance Capacity Building Program. The trainings were held in partnership with Community Rural Bank of Catmon, SEDPI’s training hub partner in Cebu. Two courses were delivered: Delinquency Management and Character and Capacity-Based Lending. A total of 20 participants from 7…

On June 18 – 23, 2012, ADMU-SEDPI conducted two trainings on “Fundamentals and Principles of Microfinance” and “Delinquency Management.” The trainings were delivered through the ADMU-SEDPI training hub in Bacolod, Negros Women for Tomorrow Foundation (NWTF). A total of 30 middle management officers from various microfinance institutions attended the trainings. NWTF is the first training…

On May 30 – June 1, 2012, two batches of trainings on Basic Accounting for Non-Accountants under the Ateneo-SEDPI Microfinance Training Courses. Nueva Segovia Consortium of Cooperatives (NSCC), the newest training hub, hosted the trainings . The trainings were held in Vigan City. A total of 102 top and middle management officers from NSCC’s member…

On May 12, 2012, ADMU-SEDPI Microfinance Capacity Building Program deliverd a training on Conflict Management to 26 cooperatives in La Union. The training was held in Benguet State University, La Trinidad, Benguet. A total of 81 participants attended the event. These cooperatives are all members of the Cooperative Bank of La Union which sponsored the…

On April 25, 2012, the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships Inc. (SEDPI) formalized its partnership with Alalay Sa Kaunlaran Incorporated (ASKI). Mr. Rolando B. Victoria, the executive director of ASKI, signed the memorandum of agreement with Mr. Mariel Vincent Rapisura, SEDPI’s President. The partnership, which has a term of one year, establishes ASKI as an ADMU-SEDPI…