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WORLD SOCIAL FINANCE SUMMIT, QUEBEC 5-6 JUNE 2008. FINAL PROGRAMME
The World Social Finance Summit 2008 organised by INAISE (International Association of social finance organisations) and Caisse d’économie Solidaire Desjardins, will take place in Quebec on 5 & 6 June.
Exchanges, mutual linkage and support, speaking out, innovation and acting together are at the heart of our project. Plenary sessions and round tables to inspire our debates and working groups to realise concrete projects that will be continued after the conference, are some of the opportunities of mutual enrichment and partnership building that you will enjoy during this conference.
Quebec is the one event this year not to be missed if you want to use social and ethical finance as a real tool for sustainable development.
Discover the Summit final programme on the 5th and 6th of June and the pre programme organized on 2, 3 & 4 June on the INAISE website www.inaise.org.
In Quebec you will enjoy a unique and rich experience full of discoveries, exchanges and mutual learning with fellow organizations from all parts of the world. We expect more than 100 delegates.
Among confirmed speakers we have: Jean Michel Servet, IUED Geneva, Ricardo Petrella, France, Gerald Larose, president of the Caisse d’économie solidaire Desjardins. From Brazil: Robson Rocha, president of Banco Popular do Brasil and Gilmar Carneiro, president of Écosol ; from Uruguay: Danilo Gutierrez, president of co-op federation Cudecoop ; from Mexico: Othon Cuevas Cordova, Bancomunidad ; from Canada: Chris Dobrzanski, Vancity City Savings Credit Union and from the United States: Michael Swack, New Hampshire University.
At the same time Quebec City is celebrating its 400th anniversary and our Quebec partner has included in the programme festive and very pleasant events we encourage you to discover.
Please register online, if not done yet, on INAISE website. The deadline for registration is 10 May!
Looking forward to welcoming you in Québec,
Viviane Vandemeulebroucke and Erwan Bothorel
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WORLD SOCIAL FINANCE SUMMIT - 5 & 6 JUNE 2008
THURSDAY 5 JUNE 2008
08.30 Registration opens
09.00 - 10.30 Opening plenary session - Gerald Larose, President of the Caisse d'Economie Solidaire Desjardins
Welcome by Giovanni Acquati, president of INAISE
Professor Riccardo Petrella, initiator and former president of the Lisbon Group. He founded the International Committee for the Global Water Contract and published a trilogy among which the much-acclaimed "The Water Manifesto".
Professor Petrella will consider the monetization of the world economy, the emergence of opportunities and challenges.
Debate with the floor
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea break
11.00 - 12.15 Ricardo Petrella, Jean Michel Servet and Gérald Larose.
Jean Michel Servet is teacher at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland. What can be done to alter the destructive path toward excessive monetization that most countries are taking and how social and solidarity economy can contribute to rebalancing the economy?
Debate with the floor
12.15 Lunch
13.30 - 15.00
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15.30 - 16.30 ROUND TABLE: ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT MODEL IS POSSIBLE! MOST OF THE TIME IN NETWORKS, FINANCIAL ORGANISATIONS INNOVATE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN. FIVE EXPERIENCES FROM NORTH AND SOUTH AMERICA.
Hosted by Mrs Kemly Camacho, President of Sula Batsu Co-operative (Costa-Rica).
From Brazil:
Robson Rocha, president of Banco Popular do Brasil and Gilmar Carneiro, president of Écosol, national organisation of credit cooperatives and solidarity economy, will focus on access to credit for low income people and social/solidarity economy entreprises. Based on their respective field experience, Banco Popular do Brasil acting as representative of the Banca do Brasil and Ecosol who is born from the action of a major workers credit union.
From Uruguay:
Danilo Gutierrez, president of the co-op federation CUDECOOP, Danilo is active in the co-op sector for a long time. He will speak about the work done by savings and credit cooperatives in his country presently facing a severe financial crisis on a background of globalised economy tension. How can we build economic development when credit is only available for medium and big enterprises? How can we open credit to smaller sectors? Preoccupations that he will share with us.
From Mexico :
Othon Cuevas Cordova, founder with his wife, Térisita de Jesus Santaella, of Bancomunidad, which is a reference in the indigenous region and which has been developed in the region of Oaxaca since the beginning of the nineties. They will share with us the richness of their work inspired by the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. Othon is presently Member of the Mexican parliament.
From Canada:
Chris Dobrzanski, senior vice president of Risk Management and Operations at Vancouver City Savings Credit Union in the great region of Vancouver. Vancity is the largest Canada's credit union and is actively involved in community and sustainable development. Chris will share with us his long-lasting experience in the credit union sector showing that "loyalty to our values provides added values to our actions"
From the United States:
Michael Swack, has over 20 years experience in the fields of community economic development, development finance and development banking and is considered a pioneer in the field of community development lending and investment. He is the founder and Director of the School of Community Economic Development (CED) at Southern New Hampshire University.
His presentation will focus on financial innovation in the community/social financial sector in the United States. He will review how they are trying to create linkages between the formal capital markets and community investment by promoting new products and techniques for accessing capital for the community/social sector.
16.30 Time for exchange and action in working groups. Presentation of Friday working groups by Malcolm Hayday, Charity Bank, the United Kingdom.
16.45 End of the work - Free time to meet and network.
19.00-21.00
A journey to the Heart of Quebec History
The Caisse d’économie solidaire and the Society of the 400th anniversary of Quebec city invite you to a festive and discovery trip to Espace 400e, the Heart of the Festivities. The programme includes V.I.P. welcome, street theater, access to the awe-inspiring exhibition "Passengers" which will take you through the human flow that has shaped the face of Québec City. This modern creation, inspired by the history of the settlement of the city over 400 years, will pay homage to Québec City and its inhabitants through images, testimonies, lyrics and music.
Dinner will be served at Espace 400e.
FRIDAY 6 JUNE 2008
08.30 - 10.30 Working groups in breakout rooms
GROUP 1 A NORTH/SOUTH INITIATIVE FOR THE FINANCING OF SUSTAINABLE ENERGIES
One of the ways to achieve sustainability in the production as well as the distribution and the consumption of energy is to implement local systems based on communities. Several scattered initiatives, often cooperatives, already exist but they lack financial capital and remain small. On the other hand, finance is available for development policies from both public and private sectors but these resources are underused and scarcely oriented towards the long term funding of social organisations necessary to build alternative energy systems. The idea is to build a mutual system, based on existing initiatives (financial tools and projects) in the social finance sector, which would be complemented by other sources of funding to invest in global energy issues. We intend to identify the existing initiatives, and to start from identified needs with the aim of up scaling the global sustainable energy initiatives without losing the local and social linkage. Working group led by: Marcel Hipszman (Esfin Ides, France) in collaboration with Sidi (France) Languages: en/fr/sp
GROUP 2 SOCIAL BANKS IN INAISE
Meeting for the banks present at the conference. Best practice examples for cooperation of the member banks This workshop is for specially focusing on the banks. Especially banks who are not yet member of inaise, but present at the conference, are very welcome to join the workshop. Working group led by: Lars Pehrson, Merkur Bank, Danemark and Andreas Neukirch, GLS Bank, Germany. Languages: en/fr
GROUP 3 WHAT IS A SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE INVESTMENT?
What is the common framework of socially responsible investments? How to promote social responsibility and social performance in the financial system? How to go further, starting from the current experiences of the investors and banks: how to value, promote and strengthen responsible finance? The workshop will be led by CERISE, “Comité d’échanges, de réflexion et d’information sur les systèmes d’épargne-Crédit” is a network of 5 French organisations and an international network of partners in microfinance, aimed at improving the practices of the sector in governance, social performance, rural and agricultural finance. Cerise and FINSOL work together since 2001 to promote social links and solidarity in the financial system. Languages: en/fr
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee/Tea break
11.00 - 13.00 Working groups in breakout rooms
GROUP 4 TOWARDS THE CREATION OF A SOCIAL FINANCE OBSERVATORY
The mission of this observatory is to gather and to complete the knowledge in order to facilitate access to information and decision making. This observatory will be:
1. A place of exchanges between Inaise members involved in research activity
2. A knowledge base structured around 5 data bases
3. Conduct of studies to fill the gaps in knowledge of this sector.
4. Provide an annual report with the indicators of social finance, the latest researches and important information from the data bases,
5. Disseminate this information through channels like the INAISE website, an e-newsletter, preparation of papers for important events such as INAISE annual meeting.
Working group led by: Bernard Bayot Réseau Financement Alternatif, Belgium. Languages: en/fr/sp
GROUP 5 SOCIAL FINANCE TOOLS FOR THE ASIAN SOCIAL ECONOMY
What steps/measures could INAISE members take to gain more knowledge about strategies and prospects of SMEs in Asia which are often too resource- constrained to produce the same level of disclosure as large companies? How useful would it be for the Workgroup to initiate a dialogue on socially responsible investments in social economy SMEs in Asian countries? This set of inter-related questions addresses the need for connecting like-minded investors and SMEs in order to grow together through shared visions and trust. What assessment tool could INAISE promote in order to help its members measure the sustainability performance of social economy SMEs in Asia? What financial instruments could be used to encourage cooperation among INAISE members to undertake a collective effort under the INAISE umbrella to channel investments, loans, or credit guarantees to social economy enterprises in Asia? If such financial instruments are created, how can they be replicated in other continents? A document has been prepared by Ben Quinones. Click here to access the pdf document. Working group led by Ben Quinones, CSRSME, Philippines. Languages: en/fr
GROUP 6 CREATING A WORLDWIDE COMMISSION FOR SUSTAINABLE FINANCE, WORKING WITH THE WORLD FUTURE COUNCIL
The World Future Council is a new voice that draws on our shared human values to champion the rights of future generations, and works to ensure that humanity acts now for a sustainable future. The World Future Council will identify and promote successful policies, using existing networks to connect with over 25,000 parliamentarians, and more than 8,000 civil society organizations worldwide, arguing not for an ideology or a nation or a religion or a political party but for one thing only: our common future. Working group led by Alexandra Wandel, Development Director, WFC. Languages: en/fr
13.00 - 14.30 Lunch - time to meet and network
14.30 - 17.30 The time of commitments - A global network: why? What do we want to do together? What do we want to become together? Hosted by Marcel Hipszman, ESFIN/IDES France and member of the Board of INAISE. INAISE, social finance 19 years of networking, what is the future? by Viviane Vandemeulebroucke, INAISE co-ordinator. INAISE charter: our main references. By Giovanni Acquati. An involving action plan. Erwan Bothorel, in charge of INAISE development. A committing appointment. Marcel Hipszman
Closing session
18.00 On our way to the Manoir of Montmorency...
Just a few minutes away from downtown Québec City, the Park de la Chute-Montmorency is a year-round destination of choice for nature lovers … at the city's doorstep! Contemplate an exceptional panorama from the cable car which offers an unbeatable view of the falls, the St. Lawrence River, and Île d'Orléans. At the top of the Falls, discover the Manoir Montmorency and taste the culinary specialties of renowned master chef, Martin Côté. A place to discover, taste and contemplate. A unique experience in one of the most wonderful places in Quebec. Gala dinner at the Manoir de Montmorency,
VISITS : The visits in Montreal and transfer to Québec are free for conference delegates - Eur 80 for accompanying persons. Accommodation and evening meals in Montreal are payable by the delegates.
REGISTRATION FEE:
• Members of INAISE, no registration fee for the first delegate
• All other delegates: registration fee of Eur 190 - about 300 Canadian $ (includes visits in Montreal, transfer between Montreal and Quebec and reception in Quebec Town Hall on Wednesday 4 ; two days conference ; lunch, VIP visit to "Passengers" exhibition and dinner on Thursday ; lunch and gala dinner at the Manoir of Montmorency on Friday
ACCOMPANYING PERSONS (persons who are NOT attending the conference): Eur 80 - about 125 Canadian $ (Cost includes visits in Montreal, transfer between Montreal and Quebec, reception in Quebec Town Hall, VIP visit and dinner on Thursday, gala dinner at Montmorency on Friday)
DELEGATES ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR OWN ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL COSTS.
A limited number of rooms has been blocked for conference delegates. To book these rooms in Montreal as well as in Quebec, click on the "hotel booking" link below. Hotel in Montreal: about Can $ 110 and Hotel in Quebec: about Can $ 200 (1,2 or 3 persons) all taxes included |
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