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The sessions were: (1) migrant remittances and sustainable development; (2) migrant remittances and families left behind; (3) savings, investments and entrepreneurship; and (4) impact of remittances on education.<\/p>\n<p>SEDPI\u2019s President and CEO took part on the first session on linking migrant remittances to sustainable development. He shared how SEDPI\u2019s financial literacy programs to Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs) abroad are able to invest in microfinance institutions and social enterprises in the Philippines. \u201cSEDPI aims to strengthen the personal finance status of migrants abroad in the hope that they become social investors. To date, approximately 100 SEDPI-trained migrants have invested in in SEDPI Development Finance that were used to leverage resources from commercial banks. The leveraging effectively increased SEDPI\u2019s resources that were in turn invested in microfinance institutions and social enterprises all over the Philippines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other speakers of the conference were representatives from various government and non-government organizations such as the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas, Council of Filipinos Overseas, Department of Labor and Employment, ERCOF, Atikha and ASKI Global among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimler, Ateneo de Davao, MINCODE and PhilSmile staged a conference with the theme \u201cThe Role of Migrants in Sustainable Development\u201d in Davao City on January 24, 2015. The event attracted at least 120 participants from all over Mindanao to discuss pressing issues of migration and development. 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