The month of February was fruitful for the Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. A total of 10 training events were delivered for the month. Of the training events conducted, six are customized; one is conducted under the Ateneo-BPI partnership; one new training is introduced in Ateneo; and two are conducted in the Netherlands.
A total of 200 participants from 40 development organizations attended the training events. The customized trainings delivered are on crafting financial projections for branch operations; managing and developing human resource for microfinance institutions; fundamentals and principles of microfinance; and character and capacity-based lending. The Ateneo-BPI partnership training on financial analysis was conducted in Baguio City. Two trainings on financial literacy for remittance senders were conducted in the Netherlands both in Filipino migrant communities and communities of other migrant nationalities. The latest offering of the Ateneo Microfinance Capacity Buiilding Program successfully introduced its new training entitled: “The New Frontier: Linking Microfinance and Remittances.”
The training events were all evaluated as excellent with trainers getting a rating of 4.80 and training topics were rated 4.67. SEDPI uses a rating scale of 1 to 5 in its evaluation system, with one as the lowest and 5 as the highest possible rating.