9:00-9:30am

Welcome - Introduction (all participants).

Justin Oliver, Executive Director, CMF

9:30-10:30am

Financial Access: The Burning Questions

Dr. Nachiket Mor, President, ICICI Foundation

10:30-11:30am

Economics of Poverty
Concept of Joint Liability

Justin Oliver, CMF

Half Day off (shopping, orientation to Chennai etc)

9:30- 10:00am

The learning from the previous day

Two volunteers

10:00-11:15am

Microfinance in India- History, Models, Current practices/trends and issues

Diwakar BR, IFMR Trust

11:15-11:30am

Discussion- Q & A Session

11:30-11:45am

TEA BREAK

11:45am-12:45pm

Scaling Up issues and challenges (Transaction Cost)

Varath Kanth,  Equitas

12:45- 1:00pm

Discussion- Q & A Session

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm

Financing Microfinance

Kshama Fernandez, IFMR Capital-

3:00-3:15pm

Discussion- Q & A Session

3:15-3:30pm

TEA BREAK

3:30-4:30 pm

Microfinance “plus”

Stuti  Tripathi, CMF

9:30-10:00am

The learning from the previous day

10:00-11:15am

Qualitative workshop (Participatory Rural Appraisal) with exercises

Jyoti Prasad/ Janani /Deepti, CMF/CIRM

11:15-11:30am

TEA BREAK

11:30am-1:00pm

Qualitative workshop (Participatory Rural Appraisal) with exercises…Cont’d

Jyoti Prasad/ Janani /Deepti, CMF/CIRM

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm

Information for Development

Soma, CDF

3:00-3:15pm

TEA BREAK

3:15-4:00pm

PRA/Stakeholder meetings

Lalitha, CDF

4:00-5:00pm

Discussions on PRA Exercise

9:00-9:30am

The learning from the previous day

9:30-10:45am

Taking a Wealth Management Approach to Financial Services for the Poor

Bindu Ananth, IFMR Trust

10:45-11:00am

TEA BREAK

11:00am-12:00pm

Practitioner’s perspective – livelihood programme

Nitin Madan, Aajeevika Bureau

12:00-1:00pm

LUNCH

1:00-1:30pm

SME’s in India and SEFC’s approach

Rishi Dhariwal

1:30-2:15pm

Overview of SME Banking in India

Arjun Rajagopal

2:15-3:15pm

Research into Practices:

• Relationship building with SME bank clients        
• Chit Funds as Innovative Access for Low-Income Households and Businesses

Max Comer/ Preethi Rao/ Sharon Buteau

3:15-3:30pm

TEA BREAK

3:30-3:45pm

Are there cultural determinants of entrepreneurships?

Sandya Kumar

3:45-5:00pm

Repayment Behavior of SMEs with ICICI Bank

Hui Chin Chen

9:00-10:00am

Presentations on the field trips

10:00-11:00am

Practitioner’s Perspective- Support system for the growth of MFI

Rahul Bist- M2i Consulting

11:00-11:15am

Discussion- Q & A Session

11:15-11:30am

TEA BREAK

11:30am-12:30pm

What’s Wrong with Microfinance?

Amy Mowl, CMF

12:30-12:45pm

Discussion- Q & A Session

12:45-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:00pm

Legal forms of MFIs and regulatory challenges
(Talk about self regulation of MFIs)

Amulya, CMF

3:00-4:00pm

Case Study Discussion: Challenges and issues: Kolar Crisis

Shreyas/ Veena, CMF

4:00-5:00pm

Responsible Lending- from Practitioner’s Perspective.

Puneet Gupta, IFMR Trust-

The learning from the previous day

9:30-10:30am

Micro-insurance trends- an overview

Rupalee Ruchismita, CIRM

10:30-11:15am

Process Innovations in delivering Micro Insurance

Gunaranjan

11:15-11:30am

TEA BREAK

11:30am-12:15pm

Health insurance in India: Are states subsidized programmes killing community initiatives: RSBY vs Uplift

Dr. Aslam Nadri

12:15-1:00pm

Improving Health access through bundling? Leveraging the community health worker: case study of Calcutta kids and CARE community health programme.

Tilak Mukhopadhyay

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:00

Catastrophe and climate changes: is insurance the
New Mantra? Why Meso level flood insurance makes sense for OXFAM Bangaladesh

Clemence Tatin Jaleran

3:00-3:15pm

TEA BREAK

3:15-4:00pm

Technology and Livestock Risk Management

Anupama Sharma

4:00-4:45pm

Longevity risk in India: Summary of Government and Private experiments industry snapshot of Rajasthan Government’s effort and description of IIMP’s work with SEWA

Aasim Joy

9:00-9:30am

The learning from the previous day

Overview of Finance in Development

Jessica Wallack, CDF

10:30-11:15am

Public Sector Expenditure Management

Revati Dhoble/ Satyarupa Shekhar

11:15-11:30am

TEA BREAK

11:30am-12:15pm

Environmentally Sustainable Finance

Koyel Mandal /Rupanwita Dash

12:15-1:00pm

Role of Civil Society in Environment Sustainability

Rajesh Rangarajan

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-2:45pm

Transparent Chennai

Somya Sethuraman

2:45-3:30pm

WRI

Sreyamsa Bairiganjan

3:30-3:45pm

TEA BREAK

3:45-4:30pm

Rural market Insights overview

Santosh Singh

4:30-5:15pm

Design Thinking for development

Selvan Thandapani /Pooja Bhatia

9:00- 9:30 am

The learning from the previous day

Two volunteers

9:30-11:15am

What is Impact Evaluation? Introduction to Randomized Control Trials (with Exercises)

Ajay Tannirkulam,Abhay Agarwal,  CMF

11.15-11.30am

TEA BREAK

11:30am-1:00pm

What is Impact Evaluation? Introduction to Randomized Control Trials (with Exercises)……Cont’d

Ajay Tannirkulam, Abhay Agarwal, CMF

1:00-2:00pm

LUNCH

2:00-3:15pm

Research methodology: Designing questionnaires and field issues

Deeptha Umapathy and Anup Roy, CMF

3:15-3:30pm

TEA BREAK

3:30-4:30pm

Orientation to the field, and concluding remark

CMF Team

4:30-5:10pm

Internship Project Discussion

Deeptha Umapathy, Anup Roy