Since 1996 the Savings and Credit Forum is organized twice a year by HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperation on behalf of SDC. It is a training and exchange event with participants from SDC, Swiss NGOs, consultants and academics. They are given the opportunity to get experts' views on themes related to savings and credit institutions and financial sector development. It is also a unique occasion for actors in Switzerland to exchange experiences and opinions.
On this page you can find the programmes, presentations, and related documents of the past Savings and Credit Fora and the announcement of upcoming Fora.
2014
Postal Financial Inclusion
(November 5, 2014) Date to be confirmed- more information will follow
Promoting Youth Employment in Partnership with Financial Institutions
(Friday June 27, 2014)
2013
Agricultural and Catastrophe Insurance: Potential and challenges in reducing the vulnerability of smallholder farmers and low-income households
(Friday, 13 September 2013)
"Good practices" in preventing over-indebtedness of low-income borrowers
(Tuesday, 5 March 2013)
2012
“Financial Inclusion Landscape - Results to-date, Opportunities and Challenges Ahead: Part 1: Global perspective, Part 2: Perspective for the Arab World”
(Wednesday, 17 October 2012)
The long March of BASIX and the Indian Microfinance Adventure
(Friday, 11 May 2012)
How can we make Microfinance more useful to Women?
(Thursday, 8 March 2012)
2011
'Good Practice' Agricultural Value Chain Financing
(Friday, 18 November 2011)
Do Financial Literacy Skills Empower the Poor?
(13 May 2011)
2010
Agricultural Micro Insurance: Powerful Tool for Vulnerability Reduction of the Poor?
(26 November 2010)
Mainstreaming Social Performance in Microfinance - Implementing the Double Bottom Line
(2 July 2010)
2009
Graduation Models: Graduating the Poorest into Microfinance
(3 Dec. 2009)
Refinancing of Rural and Agricultural Financial Institutions and Agricultural Production Cooperatives
(15 May 2009)
2008
Access to Finance in Sub-Saharan Africa and Social Performance Mainstreaming in Microfinance
(16 Dec. 2008)
Community-managed Savings and Lending Approaches: Overview, VSLA model
(29 Aug. 2008)
2007
Microinsurance: Introduction, case studies, outlook
(30 Nov. 2007)
Poverty Scorecareds, a tool to measure poverty
(19 Oct. 2007)
Transformation of micro-credit NGOs/ projects into regulated MFIs
(15 June 2007)
2006
Outcome and Impact Evaluation of Financial Sector Projects
(8 Dec. 2006)
What constitutes international "good practice" in Small Business Lending?
(19 June 2006)
2005
Electronic banking for the poor - How can it facilitate reaching poorer and/or more remote clients?
(2 December 2005)
How to deal with risks in lending to agricultural households?
(27 May2005)
2004
Social performance of micro finance institutions
(19 November 2004)
"Models"
(11 June 2004)
2003
Rural Finance and Agricultural Credit
(11 August 2003)
2002
Financial Viability
(22 November 2002)
The poor and their money with Stuart Rutherford
(19 April 2002)
2001
Sparen (Ersparnisbildung, - mobilisierung und -sicherung)
(22 June 2001)
2000
Monitoring von Finanzsystemen
(1 December 2000)
Rahmenbedingungen, Voraussetzungen und Vorbereitungen um in einem Land Aktivitäten im Spar & Kredit Bereich neu zu unterstützen
(31 March 2000)
1996- 2003
List of Fora held from 1996- 2003
