Working Groups

New online workspaces and communities of practice

Our working groups

New online workspaces and communities of practice

FINANCE

ENTERPRISEDEVELOPMENT

NETWORKS & ASSOCIATIONS

FINANCIAL Services

SAVINGS-LED Finance

IMPROVING Organizational Efficiency

OPERATIONALIZING Client Assessment

FRAME – MIS Tool for MFI Performance Measurement

NETWORK Development Exchange

GLOBAL Network Summit

MICROFINANCE Network Capacity Assessment

MEMBER Feedback Tool

POLICY Advocacy

YOUTH & Workforce Development

MICROENTERPRISE & HIV

SOCIAL Performance

CONSUMER Protection

FINANCIAL Reporting Standards

METRICS for Measuring Network Success

FINANCIAL Performance Monitoring for Microfinance Associations

GLOBAL Enterprise Development Network

ENTERPRISE Development Exchange

URBAN VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT

SUSTAINABILITY AND SCALE-UP

MARKET Development

MARKET Facilitation

SOCIAL Enterprise

ENERGY Microfinance

ECONOMIC Recovery Standards

Value Chain Finance

POVERTY Outreach and Assessment

Communities of Practice

http://members.seepnetwork.org

New WG workspacesCreate your own

user account

Log into the workspace

Extranet homepage

On your own– Visit http://members.seepnetwork.org– Create a user account: a very simple process, you provide your real

name and email, create a user name, select your organization from a drop-down menu and a confirmation email will be sent to you

– Once you have received confirmation and logged into the extranet, you will see a list of our working groups and “JOIN HAMED”, etc.

– Click on that link to send a request to staff to add you to a working group.

With staff help– Send an email to Jeanne Long (long@seepnetwork.org) with your

name, organization, email, and which working group(s) you would like to join

You may join as many working groups as you would like. Once added, a welcome email will be sent to you with instructions on how to use the workspace, and the facilitator will follow up with an orientation.

How to join a

working group

1. Market Facilitation Initiative (MaFI)

2. HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED) Working Group

3. Financial Services Working Group (FSWG)

4. Poverty Outreach Working Group (POWG)

5. Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group (SLWG)

6. Social Performance Working Group (SPWG)

Working Groups

• Learning Agenda Themes– HIV & micro-insurance– HIV & savings and credit-led approaches– HIV & social protection agenda via cash transfers– Orphans and vulnerable children (OVC), HIV and economic

strengthening– Improving and updating The SEEP Guidelines (

http://communities.seepnetwork.org/hamed/The_SEEP_Guidelines)

• Planned Activities– Develop creative and innovative ways to encourage the use of the

website and its existing resources– Identify and document promising practices and lessons learned from

the field– “Climbing the Ladder to Integrated Programming” (defining

progression of program quality to be profiled in case studies)– Development of a webinar for website training and to increase website

use– Six case studies, three online conferences, three conference reports

HAMED

HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development Working Group

HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development

• Sub working groups1. Subsidies Group (Agricultural Technical Knowledge products and

services): 2. (Horizontal and Vertical) Linkages Group: 3. Capacity Building (of Facilitators) Group:

• Planned Activities– Analyze cases where community-based market facilitation has been

used successfully and unsuccessfully– Subsidies: develop best practice guidelines; identify and analyze

case studies– Linkage: build a set of principles and guidelines; conduct an

assessment of tools

MaFI

Market Facilitation Initiative

Market Facilitation Initiative

• Learning Agenda Themes– Reporting standards– Internal audit toolkit– Board governance and audit guide– Reviewing capital and savings ratios for update to Framework

• Planned Activities– Microfinance Reporting Standards Initiative microLINKS events

• July 15: "New Developments in Reporting Standards for the Microfinance Industry," (in person)

• July 21-23: "Online World-wide Dialogue on Reporting Standards for Microfinance Industry," (virtual)

– June: IFRS discussion board for SEEP MF practitioners: questions and feedback on International Accounting and Financial Reporting Standards (IAS and IFRS) for MFIs

– Promote and disseminate the Internal Audit Toolkit

FSWG

Financial Services Working Group

Financial Services Working Group

• Learning Agenda Themes– Frameworks for defining poverty: – Utility of poverty tools (PPI, PAT) beyond compliance

• Planned Activities– Develop a training module for program design based on results

from poverty tools• Monday training session at AC: “Beyond good intentions:

designing products that meet the livelihood needs of very poor households and delivery mechanisms that reach them”

– Q & A: Pros and cons of PAT, PPI– A series of tech notes on sampling– Coordination and sharing of knowledge with non-SEEP actors in

poverty outreach– Poverty Outreach conference in 2010

POWG

Poverty Outreach Working Group

Poverty Outreach Working Group

• Learning Agenda Theme– “Bringing a Social Intervention to Market – SEEP Standards for Social

Performance”• Stakeholder engagement strategy• Indicator review and validation• Technical standards development

• Planned Activities– Development of social performance standards for SEEP Network

Members– Ensuring that the practitioner voice is well articulated in the

international discussion currently focusing on social performance. – Play a key role in the Governance Steering Committee of the Social

Performance Task Force.

SPWG

Social Performance Working Group

Social Performance Working Group

• Learning Agenda Themes– Replicating Agents – Linkages (at 3 levels)

• To external sources of capital• Within groups • Between groups and other programs from the implementing

agency (microfinance plus)

• Planned Activities– Literature review => database – Geographic mapping exercise– Submit workshop proposals to SEEP AC

SLWG

Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group

Savings-Led Financial Services Working Group

Other potential learning initiatives …

Energy and the environmentInvestment readiness

Consumer protection

Youth and …

Financial Literacy

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Non-English online workspaces• Topic-based• Discussion spaces offered in the participants’ own language• International, bi-lingual facilitator• Share among spaces!

• Synergies, differences, and/or lessons learned