Founded in 1999 as the Microenterprise Development Institute, the Carsey Institute’s Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Program (SMDP) provides training and networking opportunities for practitioners in the fields of microfinance, enterprise development, social enterprise, community based and rural development. Over the past thirteen years we have trained more than 1,500 practitioners from more than 50 countries around the globe. The SMDP offers an intensive and highly relevant professional training experience with a concentration on program planning and implementation of client and community inclusive economic development strategies.
Consistently the SMDP training workshops have been rated as “very good” to “excellent” by 98% of program participants. Since its inception the program had provided an affordable, high quality and accessible professional development opportunity which counts among its alumni many the of today’s leaders of the development finance field.
Course topics cover a wide range of best practices from financial, risk, and human resource management, social performance monitoring and management, value chain and ProPoor market development, social enterprise, savings groups led microfinance, and sustainable responses to climate change.
Upcoming Sustainable Microenterprise and Development Programs
March 12 through March 23, 2012, Accra, Ghana
(in cooperation with the Ghana Microfinance Institutions Network - GHAMFIN )
Read more about the Ghana program.
View the Ghana 2012 program flyer (PDF).
March 26 through April 6, 2012, Lome, Togo
(in cooperation with the Microfinance Africa Institutions Network – MAIN)
June 18 through June 29, 2012, SMDP New Hampshire Certificate, Durham, NH USA
(on the University of New Hampshire campus)
October 15 through 26, 2012, SMDP Tanzania, Arusha, Tanzania