SEEP Mid-year Working Group meetings: June 2-3

Time Wednesday June 2, 2010 Thursday June 3, 2010

Working Group meetings Collaborative meetings: SEEP working groups and Programs**

1875 Connecticut Ave., NW 1616 P Street, NW

Washington, DC 20009 1st Floor conference center
Washington, DC 20036

9- 10am Meeting with Financial Services & Meeting with

members of: MF Reporting members of:
Standards
Market Facilitation Meeting Savings-Led FS
Value Initiative Poverty Outreach
10- 11am Continued… HIV & AIDS and MED
FACILITATOR MEETING Youth Fin. Services
PLP
11- 12pm Meeting with members of: Savings-led Financial Services
Working Group meeting
Market Facilitation
Value Initiative Review of Savings Group
Poverty Outreach Publication
HIV & AIDS and MED

12-1pm

WORKING LUNCH: Food will be provided

1-2 pm

2-3 pm Financial
Services Meeting with members of: Savings-led Financial Services WG
Poverty HIV&AIDS Market
meeting
Outreach and MED Facilitation
3-4pm & Poverty Outreach Continued…
Initiative
HIV & AIDS and MED
MF Market Facilitation
4-5pm Reporting
Standards

5:45-7:45 SEEP Networking Event **Meetings are meant to be collaborative among SEEP working groups,
pm Greeley Hall SEEP members, and SEEP programs. Discussions topics will be identified in
advance; please contact your working group facilitator or SEEP for more
Brief working group overviews and presentations followed information.
by networking with colleagues

**Light hors d'œuvres will be provided

HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development Working group agenda:

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

1:00 pm: Welcome/Introduction of members
1:15 pm: Save the Children Presentation by Ntongi McFadyen on the LIFT Project with CARE and AED
1:45 pm: Review of 2010 Learning Agenda and Work Plan
1. Five themes
a. HIV & Micro/Health Insurance: Explore the role of micro/health insurance in improving
equitable access to health care in the context of HIV.
b. Improve access to HIV & AIDS Related Products: Create opportunities for equitable access to
HIV & AIDS products.
c. HIV & Financial Services: Explore the spectrum of approaches used to help lift HIV-affected
households out of poverty ranging from cash transfers to savings-led and credit-led
approaches.
d. HIV & Food Security: Explore ways in which economic strengthening activities can be used to
mitigate the impact of HIV and improve food security in the context of HIV.
e. Economic Strengthening of vulnerable populations affected by HIV
2. Review of SEEP Facilitator Meetings (website update, future of SEEP Working Groups)
3. Three case studies –Jared Penner, MEDA
4. Two online discussions in form of webinars and conferences
5. Discussion synthesis reports
6. Workshop at SEEP Annual Conference?

3:00 pm: BREAK

3:30 pm: Revising the Case Study Submission and Review Process
4:00 pm: HAMED On-Line Poster at the International AIDS Conference –World Relief
4:15 pm: Kudos!! Feedback from the Field

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Poverty Outreach Working Group Agenda

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Interpretation and Use of Poverty Data

• POWG member presentations on poverty data use

• Update - Poverty Tools and Data MAP and SURVEY
• Poverty tools guide - MIX, CGAP and SPTF
• Next steps

2.30 pm – 3.000 pm Communication and Dissemination strategy

3.30 pm – 4.30 pm Planning for POWG Learning Events

• Poverty Outreach Innovation Series: presentations, online discussions, publications
• Potential trainings and workshops at SEEP Annual Conference, Social Performance Task Force
meetings, Global Microcredit Summit.
• Conference: Sustainable Microenterprise, Employment and Microfinance for the Ultra Poor

4.30 pm – 5.00 pm POWG’s role in SEEP’s future Community of Practice

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Financial Services working group with MFI Reporting Standards Initiative Agenda:

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Objective: Review FSWG activities, educate attendees on current activities with the public reporting period of
the MFI Reporting Standards Initiative and plan activities to increase ‘uptake’ of the standards after final
adoption.

2-230 pm: Getting started and FSWG stuff (non-MFI Reporting Standards News)
• Socializing and introductions
• FSWG materials non MFRS-initiative status updates

230-330 pm: MFI Reporting Standards Initiative Public Comment Period

• Public comment period explained
• Should tapping - status on public comment period. # of responses so far, goals
• Web based and online marketing activities
o SEEP Standards Wiki, Online flash game, article on Spanish MicroLINKS
o Planned online event with QED, Ongoing development with others
• Events , Conferences, Presentations

REVIEW TIMELINE TO END OF PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD (now to mid-July)

340-430: Long-Range Planning / Uptake (Future)

Key topics:
• Stakeholder engagement
• Events & activities, calendar
• Publications, broad based efforts, and online options
• Training ‘product’ for national associations and others: Training of trainers
• FRAME Tool update
• Activities at the SEEP conference

Group work:
1. Stakeholder engagement: Which stakeholders do we need to reach most?
2. Conferences, panels and educational ‘products’. How can we put together an interesting package to offer to
conferences, including the SEEP conference in November?
3. Broad based marketing and media efforts: What can be done to get more attention and attract more people
here? Guerrilla marketing vs. advocacy campaign.

430-500: Flex Time

Report out from each round-table and Next steps

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 Thursday, June 3, 2010
**This agenda is still being developed and will be updated as soon as possible

9:00-11:00am: Meeting with Poverty 9:00-11:00am: Market Facilitation & Value 9:30-11:30am: Financial Services working
Outreach Working Group, Savings Led Initiative group and Microfinance Reporting
Financial Services, HIV & AIDs and Standards Initiative
Microenterprise Development, and Youth
Financial Services PLP Continued planning
• Joint revision of The SEEP 1. Recap of June 2
Guidelines to include updated 2. Additional ideas
stories from the field (from on-
3. Advance training schedule
line conferences and case
4. Finalize 2010 calendar
studies), partnership tools,
poverty indicator discussion,
BASICS PLP lessons, etc
• Propose the formation of a SEEP
Guidelines Committee of different
WG Members and HAMED
• Case Study Review Committee for
Climbing the Ladder to
Integrated Programming
Immediate next steps: On-line
conference planning

11:00am-5:00pm: Meeting with Market Facilitation, Value 11:00am-5:00pm: Savings-led Financial Services working group
Initiative, HIV & AIDs and Microenterprise Development, and meeting
Poverty Outreach: On-line Conference Planning for 3rd & 4th
Quarters 2010
Plan a joint, on-line discussion on different poverty
indicator/models in the context of integrated programming and
partnership

12:00 pm: Working luncheon, food will be provided

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