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2008 SEEP Annual Conference - Powering Connections
Interesting Enterprise Development Sessions included:
- Poverty Outreach Debate: Can microenterprise development reach and serve the very poor? How?
- Financing VC for pro-poor growth
- Market Development Mitigating Crisis
- Business Planning for Sustainability and Scale-Up
- Effective approaches to Youth Entrepreneurship
- Mainstreaming Sustainability: What can we learn from Starbucks, Mars, and Unilever
Of urban interest:
- Innovations in urban housing finance
- The hunger crisis
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The Value Initiative Website Survey 2008
The SEEP Network Value Initiative websites have been up and running for 6+ months, holding 5 on-line conferences, providing resources, and networking for professionals all over the world.

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Check out our other online discussions!
- The Poverty Outreach Working Group hosted a Speaker’s Corner on microLINKS October 14-16. Learn more
- The Market Facilitation Initiative hosted an online conference, “State of the Practice in Market Facilitation”. Learn more.
- The HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development Working Group hosted an online conference “Learning the ABCs of OVC”. Learn more

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On May 24, 2009
Africa Forum 2009 (AF09)
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HIV & AIDS and Microenterprise Development (HAMED) Working Group
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Technical Capacity Manager, Sustainable Agriculture Division
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On October 23, 2008
Women Advancing Microfinance - Canada (WAM Canada)
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Cluster Pulse helped 16 Afghan carpet exporters, who purchase from or employ 21,000 weavers, to form three exporter consortia. Export sales in the first year were $350,000.
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