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Date Added: 09-19-2006
Date Modified: 10-14-2009
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Audio Interviews with Microenterprise Development Specialists
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Welcome to microLINKS Conversations, a series featuring interviews with microenterprise practitioners and experts.
www.microlinks.org/conversations
The interviews provide a rare view into the successes and challenges faced by leaders in microenterprise. Click from the selection below to listen.


arrow    Ensure your speakers or headphones are functioning to use these slideshows. Also, if your computer doesn't have Flash installed, click here to get Flash. A transcript of these interviews can be made available upon request. Please e-mail microlinks@microlinks.org to request a copy.
            

Interviews:
Peter TrenchardAn Overview of USAID Senegal’s Economic Growth Project
Peter Trenchard (DAKAR / EGO) is Chief of the Economic Growth Program at the Senegal Mission.  In this interview, he discusses improving value chains in Senegal and the objective of USAID's food security program there.
Andrew CatleyParticipatory Impact Analysis: An Interview with Dr. Andy Catley
Dr. Andrew Catley is Research Director for Policy Process at The Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, which has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure impact assessment since the early 1990s.
Photo: Luis Jimenez GalarzaValue Chain Finance Methodology: An interview with Luis Jimenez Galarza
Luis Jimenez is with the World Council of Credit Unions (WOCCU) and winner of an AMAP Innovations in Financing Value Chains Excellence in Achievement Award in 2009.
Photo: Ramiro Ortega LandaIntroducing Purchase Order Financing in Bolivia: An interview with Ramiro Ortega Landa
Ramiro Ortega Landa is with the USAID/Bolivia's Rural Competitiveness Activity (ARCo) and winner of an AMAP Innovations in Financing Value Chains Excellence in Achievement Award in 2009.
Photo: Ingrid Munro, Founder of Jamii Bora in KenyaRecovering from Kenya's Post-Election Violence: a Digital Interview with Ingrid Munro
Founder and Managing Trustee, Jamii Bora, Kenya
Photo: Thomas DebassRoundtable on Remittances and Diaspora Engagement,
This podcast features Thomas Debass of the USAID Microenterprise Development office interviewing Dean Young of the University of Michigan and Liesl Riddle of George Washington University.
Area Based Yield Insurance for Peruvian Coastal Agriculture
A conversation with Dr. Michael Carter, Director of the BASIS Assets and Market Access Collaborative Research Support Program, University of Wisconsin
Photo: Sol Blanco
Construcción de Confianza y Relaciones gana-gana transformado el Mercado de lacteos en Cajamarca (Perú): A guest conversation between Lucho Osorio and Sol Blanco of Practical Action
Photo: Gary GereffiThe Global Value Chain Initiative and other Value Chain research: A Digital Interview with Dr. Gary Gereffi
Director, Duke University's Center on Globalization, Governance, and Competitiveness
Photo: Kate McKeeAn Audio Interview with Kate McKee,
former Director of the USAID Microenterprise Development office
portrait of Michael McCord New Frontiers in Microinsurance: A Digital Interview with Michael McCord
President, The MicroInsurance Centre
Analyzing the Integration of MSEs in Value Chains: A Digital Interview with Elizabeth Dunn
President, Impact, LLC
portrait Donor Agency Trends in Enterprise Development: A Digital Interview with Jim Tanburn
Donor Committee for Enterprise Development
portrait Growth Orientated Microenterprise Development: A Digital Interview with Vikas Choudhary
GMED Program, ACDI VOCA
portrait Building Livelihoods
for Latin American Women:
A Digital Interview with Carmen Velasco

Co-founder, Pro Mujer; Executive Director of Pro Mujer Bolivia
portraitEnabling Environments
for MSE Development:
A Digital Interview with Thierry van Bastelaer

Director, Enterprise Development Group, IRIS Center
portrait Expanding Outreach through Mobile Phone Technology:
A Digital Interview with Reggie Ocampo

President, First Macro Bank,
Philippines
portrait

Microenterprise Access to Services Program (MABS) :
A Digital Interview with Meliza Agabin

Deputy Chief of Party,
MABS, Philippines

portrait Leveraging the Commercial Health Sector :
A Digital Interview with Frank Lusby

Executive Director,
Action for Enterprise
portrait Sustainable Private Sector Approaches
to SME Development:
A Digital Interview with Allen Hammond

Vice President, Special Projects and Innovation, World Resources Institute
portrait Community Finance
and Village Savings Groups:
A Digital Interview with Jeffrey Ashe

Manager of Community Finance, OXFAM America
From the conversations:
"One of the interesting things about this work is that often the regulator and the regulated have a common interest in finding where the boundaries are."
Thierry van Bastelaer

"When we began Pro Mujer we didn't even have a clue what we were going to get in 15 or 16 years... we were seeing day to day."
Carmen Velasco

"This is an approach which, really for the first time, instead of being jammed down people’s throats, bubbles up from the grassroots."
Jeffrey Ashe

"And what we’re trying to do is find win-win private sector approaches that are sustainable. That means profitable, but also meet unmet needs for low income communities…"
Allen Hammond