The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor

CGAP

Developing educational materials for others in the field of microfinance; educational services, namely, sponsoring, developing, arranging, and conducting educational conferences, workshops and programs and providing courses of instruction in the field of microfinance; publication of books, papers, pamphlets, and reports in the field of microfinance; providing training in the field of microfinance for microfinance managers and for development agencies that provide funding to microfinance; arranging and conducting educational conferences in the field of microfinance;Publications, namely, books, reports and pamphlets concerning technical aspects of microfinance;CONSULTATIVE GROUP TO ASSIST THE POOR;Provision of microfinance financial services, namely, credit consultation namely, providing loans, savings account services, insurance underwriting, money lending and money transfers, to poor people around the world; information, advisory, and consultancy services in the field of microfinance; providing a website featuring information and news in the field of microfinance; providing a website through which users can obtain information relating to microfinance; providing on-line information and news in the field of microfinance;Providing technical assistance in the establishment and/or operation of microfinance institutions to commercial banks, international finance networks, and service providers in the field of microfinance; business consultation and business evaluation of microfinance programs, namely, monitoring the performance of development agencies in the area of microfinance, evaluating their effectiveness and making recommendations for improvements in their microfinance programs; promoting public awareness of the need for uniform standards and best practices amongst microfinance institutions, service providers and funders; promoting on-line publications of others concerning technical aspects of microfinance; promoting the economic development of Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas by development of financial markets;