PONPO Seminar Series
The PONPO seminars are a series of presentations and discussions
on international and indigenous non-governmental organizations
(NGOs). Their main objective continues to be to map current
research in the field. Presentations include both Yale and
outside participants, scholars and practitioners.
Seminars take place on the Yale School of Management campus
in New Haven, CT, and are free and open to the public.
The seminar series is sponsored by the Rockefeller Brothers
Fund and the Yale
Institution for Social and Policy Studies.
2009-2010 Seminar Series
Fall 2009 Speakers:
October 27 - Maria Corina Machado, SÚMATE
November 10- Yves Moury, Edge Finance
December 8- Varun Guari, World Bank
Spring 2010 Speakers:
Janurary 19 - David Browing, TechnoServe
February - May TBD
| October 27, 2009 |
11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Room A30, 60 Sachem St. |
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Maria Corina Machado
Yale World Fellow
President of SÚMATE
"Democratic Trappings for Autocratic Rule: A Manual of 21st Century Socialism in Venezuela"
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Corina's Bio:
Maria Corina Machado is president of Súmate, a civic movement dedicated to defending democracy and promoting citizen participation in Venezuela. Súmate has 27,000 volunteers in all 24 states nationwide. Before she started working for Súmate, Ms Machado co-founded and directed for 8 years Fundación Atenea, a civic association that signed the first joint management agreement with the Instituto Nacional del Menor, the public institute responsible for abandoned, and mistreated Venezuelan children and youth. Atenea’s first achievement was to transform a prison-like center that sheltered over 180 boys and girls, into a place where they would receive proper health and education, as well as emotional support and personal care.
In 2006 she founded and directed Fundación Opportunitas, a second floor organization committed to finance and support, technically and administratively, numerous social development programs for underprivileged children and young people. Opportunitas is the local partner of the International Youth Foundation. Ms Machado holds a BS degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Católica Andrés Bello, UCAB (Caracas-Venezuela) and a graduate degree in Finance from Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, IESA (Caracas-Venezuela).
Ms. Machado has been a professor at UCAB’s School of Engineering, is member of the Young Global Leaders Program of the World Economic Forum, was an associate member of the ASHOKA Foundation and of the Venezuelan Chapter of the International Women
Forum. In 2009, she was selected to become a member of the Yale World Fellows
Program at Yale University (USA).
| November 10, 2009 |
11:30 a.m. to 12:50 p.m.
Room A74, 60 Sachem St. |
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Yves Moury
CEO, Edge Finance
"Savings-linked Conditional Cash Transfer Programs:
A New Policy Approach to Global Poverty Reduction"
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Bio:
Yves Moury is an Economist and Management Engineer from the Louvain School of Management, University of Louvain in Belgium, where he studied Management, Finance, Banking, Computer Science, Development Finance, and Development Sociology. Most of his professional career has been focused on poverty reduction, worldwide. He has worked in Europe, Africa, Asia and, extensively, Latin America.
Presently, he serves as CEO of Edge Finance – YMI S.A., a consultancy focused on helping small business banks and microfinance institutions with reengineering and merging efforts, microfinance commercialization, and building financial assets. He is the director of Caja Rural de Ahorro & Crédito Los Andes, a regulated rural bank in Peru serving low and very low-income rural clients, including poor farmers. He is also the Co-founder and Executive Director of Fundación Capital, a specialized nonprofit institution incorporated in Panama, aimed at asset-building for the poor in Latin America and the Caribbean. In collaboration with IEP, a social science research institution from Peru and support from the Ford Foundation, Fundación Capital is managing a regional initiative promoting linkages between Conditional Cash Transfers Programs and other G2P programs (social protection policies) including monetary savings mobilization mechanisms (the microfinance industry), all focused on banking the un-bankable, with the goal of reaching millions of low-income families in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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