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At Making Cents, we value direct, one-on-one exchanges with our clients, partners, and colleagues. We welcome the opportunity to meet you in person and share lessons learned, innovative ideas, and areas where we can work together to create and support enterprise development around the world.
September 14-16, 2010
Global Youth Enterprise & Livelihoods Development Conference, Washington, DC
Making Cents is organizing the fourth Global Youth Enterprise and Livelihoods Development Conference to take place at the Inter-American Development Bank in Washington, DC September 14-16, 2010. In just three years, this participatory and demand-driven learning event has become the "go to" conference for practitioners, funders, educators, policymakers, members of the private sector, and other professionals who design, implement, monitor, evaluate, and fund programs and policies in this field. Previous conferences have convened on average 300 participants from 45 countries. The 2010 conference themes are: youth enterprise development; youth-inclusive financial services and capabilities; workforce development; monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment; and adolescent girls and young women. For more information on how you can register and become involved, please visit: www.youtheconomicopportunities.org. Contact Whitney Harrelson; +1 202-783-4090.
October 11-23, 2010
Course offerings in Zanzibar, Tanzania (SMDP)
To bring you the latest training in youth-inclusive financial services, Making Cents is partnering with the Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program (SMDP), an intensive training program offering critical skills for today’s microfinance and enterprise development leaders around the world, and bringing you the following courses:
- Implementing Sound Practices in Youth-Inclusive Financial Services (2 days)
- Market Research with Young Clients (3 days)
- Adapting and Developing Financial Services for Young People (3 days)
- Partnering for Improved Service Delivery with Young People (2 days)
For more information on courses, costs, and registration, visit the SMDP-Tanzania Web by clicking here.