About the course
Bankable Frontier Associates and CGAP will
deliver a two day training seminar on payment
mechanisms for social transfer payment programs.
This seminar is offered as an elective to
delegates attending a two week course offered by EPRI and
African Institute for Health and Development
(AIHD), but we are pleased also to be able to
offer participation as a two day stand-alone
event to other participants.
Designing and implementing the right payment
strategy for social transfers has a material
effect on their outcome and impact. For one
thing, payment arrangements can be
expensive—typically costing 2 to 10% or more
of the sums disbursed, excluding any costs due to
leakage—and for another, they affect the
experience of the recipients in significant
ways—for example, how far they have to
travel to receive a payment and how safe their
money is. Payment arrangements can also be
designed to go further than simply delivering
cash: they may also offer an account which brings
the recipient into the world of formal financial
services—enabling her to save in a safe
place, among other things. Such financially
inclusive payment arrangements may enhance the
developmental impact of social transfers.
Already, large cash transfer programs in middle
income countries such as Brazil, Mexico and South
Africa are actively promoting financially
inclusive payment options. Mexico for example now
requires that by 2012 all recipients open bank
accounts into which to receive payments. New
technologies are enabling the use of branchless
channels to serve clients in a cost effective
way. In India and Kenya, local shop keepers make
payouts to recipients and can offer other
financial services.
This two day training seminar, conducted in
English, aims to provide decision makers
responsible for new and existing social transfer
programs in Africa with a practical understanding
of the range of payment options which are now
available. Then, the seminar shows how these
options can be incorporated into the design of
new generation payment arrangements for new and
existing social transfer programs. The course
provides a practical introduction to the approach
set out in the 2009 DFID manual, Designing
and Implementing Financially Inclusive Payment
Arrangements for Social Transfer Programs.
Course faculty from Bankable Frontier Associates
were the lead authors of this manual.
Partners
This course is being offered in
conjunction with a two-week course run by the
Economic Policy Research Institute (EPRI) and the
African Institute for Health and Development
(AIHD), with funding from the UK Department for
International Development (DFID).
About
Bankable Frontier Associates
Bankable
Frontier Associates is a niche
consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts,
USA. The firm specialises in policy, strategy and
research around new channels for financial
services. Clients include bi-lateral and
multi-lateral donors and private foundations as
well as telco and banking groups, and financial
regulators in various countries. Faculty from
Bankable Frontier Associates were the lead
authors of the 2009 DFID manual, Designing
and Implementing Financially Inclusive Payment
Arrangements for Social Transfer Programs.
About
CGAP
CGAP, short for
Consultative Group to Assist the Poor, is an
independent policy and research centre dedicated
to advancing financial access for the world's
poor. It is supported by over 30 development
agencies and private foundations who share a
common mission to alleviate poverty. Housed at
the World Bank, CGAP provides market
intelligence, promotes standards, develops
innovative solutions and offers advisory services
to governments, microfinance providers, donors,
and investors.
About
EPRI
The Economic
Policy Research Institute is a South
African-based non-governmental organisation with
extensive experience in social protection
research, policy advisory work and
capacity-building. EPRI has designed and taught
tailor-made courses and programmes to meet the
specific needs of national parliaments,
government departments and civil society
organisations.
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Who should attend?
• Social transfer scheme decision makers;
• Finance ministry officials and financial
regulators;
• Donors responsible for commissioning or
designing these schemes.
By attending, you will come
to:
• Understand leading practices by
innovative schemes in different parts of the
world;
• Gain insights on how to
get more effectiveness and efficiency out of
payment mechanisms for social transfers;
• Learn how to design
efficient and financially inclusive payment
arrangements for social transfer programs;
• Network with other policy
makers who are considering financial inclusion as
part of their social protection policy.
Course
format
The seminar is delivered by Bankable Frontier
Associates in partnership with CGAP over two days
as an elective within EPRI’s two week course
on designing and implementing social transfer
programs funded by DFID. The seminar uses a
variety of session formats, from presentation
with question and answer, to role plays and
practical case studies. The case studies are from
East Africa, as they are most relevant for
African delegates, although the knowledge and
skills gained will be global in application.
Participants will include delegates from the
two-week EPRI and AIHD course who elect this
seminar, as well as outside participants who
register only for the seminar.
A full binder of presentation material is
provided, together with a memory stick containing
all relevant supporting readings.
Tuition
and costs
The cost for this two-day course is £520 (GBP),
which includes tuition, materials and the
comprehensive facilities fee. Packages including
accommodation, meals and airport transfers in
Mombasa are also available..
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