New Financial Access Frontier: Including People with Disabilities

New Financial Access Frontier: Including People with Disabilities

New Financial Access Frontier: Including People with Disabilities

June 18th, 2010

World Bank

Entrance 700 18th Street NW

Please bring valid photo ID

Meeting Room MC2-800

Washington DC 20005

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 2010

7:00 – 9:30 p.m. Cocktail/Dinner

Logan Tavern

1423 P Street NW

Washington DC 20005

FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 2010 LIVE ON THE WEB AT mms://wbmswebcast1.worldbank.org/live

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. Participant registration with Coffee and Light Breakfast will be provided outside the meeting room

1818 H Street NW

Meeting Room MC2-800

Washington DC 20005

9:00 – 9:15 a.m.Welcome from the World Bank and Introduction to the Work of Disability and Development Team

Aleksandra Posarac, Disability and Development Team Leader, World Bank

9:15 – 9:45 a.m. Welcome from the CFI and Meeting Overview

Josh Goldstein, Principal Director, Center for Financial Inclusion and Disability Inclusion Project Manager

Brian Clancy, Chair, CFI Advisory Council and Meeting Moderator

Session I. Disability and Microfinance: Getting on the Same Page

9:45- 10:40 a.m.Microfinance in light of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons

with Disabilities

Michael Stein, Harvard Law School Project on Disability (HPOD)

Comments: Kate Druschel Griffin, Grameen Foundation and Monica Brand, Frontier Investments, ACCION International

Coffee will be available outside the meeting room

10:30 – 11:25 a.m. What have we learned from Inclusion of Disability in Microfinance Pilots?

Anne Leymat, Handicap International

Flavia Bwire, Association of Microfinance Institutions of Uganda

George Mukasa, National Union of Disabled People in Uganda

Roy Mersland, University of Agder(by phone)

Comments: Rosita Najmi Mercy Corps and Venus Ilagan, Secretary General, Rehabilitation International

11:25- 12:20 a.m.Perspectives on Microfinance: Where is the MF Industry Headed?

Marguerite Robinson, Harvard University(emerita) MF Consultant

Gareth Evans, World Relief

James Kurz, Fonkoze

Comments: Susan Sygall, Mobility International.

12:20-1:00 p.m. Lunch (participants will have access to the WB cafeteria)

Session 11 Making the Concept paper a Reality: 3 Key objectives

1:00 – 1:20 p.m.Summary of findings from morning session

Brian Clancy, CFI Advisory Council Chair

Coffee will be available outside the meeting room

1:20– 2:15 p.m.Objective 1: Promoting Inclusion of Disability throughout MFI networks

  • Making a business case for including persons with disabilities in microfinance
  • Educating and sensitizing MFI staff to the potential of persons with disabilities
  • Equipping disability organizations to partner with MFI
  • Hiring staff with disabilities

Moderator: Bill Tucker. SEEP Network

Panel: Nora Groce, University College London

Janet Lord, Blue Law International

Katharine McKee, Senior Advisor at CGAP

Jorge Alberto Ramirez Ramirez, Compartamos

2:15- 3:00 p.m.Objective 2: Promoting Reasonable Accommodation and Universal Design

Moderator: Dan Goldstein, Brown Goldstein and Levy, LLP

Panel: Marie Trottier, Harvard Disability Coordinator

Felicity Rawlins, Human Ability and Accessibility Center

IBM, Kevin McGuire, McGuire Associates, Inc.

Steve Estey, Chair Council of Canadians with Disabilities

Michael Morris, CEO, Burton Blatt Institute, Syracuse University

3:00- 3:45 p.m.Objective 3: Creating Pilots that lead to lasting institutional change

Moderator: David Morrissey, Executive Director, United States International Council on Disabilities

Panel: Rhonda Neuhaus, Making It Work, Handicap International

Anne Leymat, Handicap International

Flavia Bwire, AMFIU

Jason Fairbourne, Brigham Young University

Anne-Rivers Forcke, Human Ability and Accessibility Center, IBM

Session III. Next steps

3:45 – 4:30 p.m. Next Steps

  • Creating working groups to advance the three key objectives
  • Disseminate our conclusions to our colleagues, beginning with a side session at the next UN Conference of States Parties for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 9/1-9/3 in NYC
  • Kicking off Disability Inclusion Advocacy Campaign

Brian Clancy CFI Advisory Council Chair

Katharine McKee, Senior Advisor at CGAP

Michael Stein HPOD

Josh Goldstein, Center for Financial Inclusion at ACCION