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EUROPEAN MICROFINANCE WEEK
FEEDBACK EUROPEAN MICROFINANCE WEEK 2020 European Microfinance Week 2020 was online during 18th – 20th November. Our first virtual EMW featured an impressive 55 sessions with over 130 speakers, top experts in their fields. 500+ participants from 60 countries joined us to explore the latest insights and innovations advancing sustainable and responsible financial inclusion around the world. Three plenaries were featured : an opening one, ”Institutional Resilience in Focus: What is the Current State of the Sector?” ; a second entitled ‘Creating an Environment for Effective and Inclusive Savings’ and EMW 2020 concluded with ‘2020 in the Rear-view Mirror: Conversations on the Future of Financial Inclusion’. Over the three days a diverse range of topics were covered: the impact of Covid-19, climate change resilience; client protection, digitalisation, savings (the topic of the 2020 European Microfinance Award), housing microfinance, WASH, remittances, refugees and agri-finance – among others. Feedback from attendees was extremely positive:
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