10. SOCIAL ECONOMIC MANAGER
IN DEVELOPMENT CONTEXT

This course is aimed at professionals interested in having an initial approach to the knowledge they would need to develop business and economic development functions in development contexts.

This seminar specializes in:

• Understand the origin and evolution of microfinance within the framework of Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Action

• Describe the main economic problems of the population in highly vulnerable contexts

• Value financial and business education as a basic development tool International for protection of the human rights of especially vulnerable collectives

 

This will address basic and general knowledge to understand the business contexts and profiles of such entrepreneurs and more specific such as the creation of banks of the poor or specific microfinance tools. They will also provide basic legal tools to integrate such content within the framework of human rights.

PROGRAMME

 

Monday  July 17 th

10.00 - 12.00  Microcredit as an instrument for the development of entrepreneurship and business
(Dr. Jaime Durán, Honorary President of the Spanish Microfinance Association).

12.00 - 14.00  The role of microfinance and especially
microcredit to support entrepreneurship and business
at the Base of the Pyramid.
(Dr. Jaime Durán, Honorary President of the Spanish Microfinance Association).

 

Tuesday July 18 th

10.00 - 14.00  Different microcredit methodologies
(Dr. Jaime Durán, Honorary President of the Spanish Microfinance Association).

 

Wednesday July 19 th

10.00 - 14.00  Practical case: Impact Assessment of the Intervida Self-funded Box Program in Senegal (2009-11)
(Dr. Jaime Durán, Honorary President of the Spanish Microfinance Association; Dra. Mercedes Díaz, University
of Cádiz; Dra. Esther Puertas, University of Cádiz).

 

Thursday July 20 th

10.00 - 14.00  International protection of the rights of the child: The Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(Dra. Rosario  Carmona, Pablo de Olavide University)

 

Friday July 21 th

10.00 - 14.00  The European Union Development Policy
(Dra. Gloria Fernández, Pablo de Olavide University).

 

 

Dates: July 17 th-21 th

Course Director:
Dra. Mercedes Díaz Rodríguez

Department of Nursing, Faculty of Nursing
and Physiotherapy, University of Cádiz, Spain

Speakers:
Dra. Mercedes Díaz Rodríguez

Department of Nursing, University of Cádiz

 

Dr. Jaime Durán Navarro

Former Vice-President of the European Microfinance Network, Delegation of the European Union in South Sudan

 

Dra. Rosario Carmona Luque

Department of Public Law, Pablo de Olavide University

 

Dra. Gloria Fernández Arribas

Department of Public Law, Pablo de Olavide University

 

Dra. Esther Puertas Cristóbal

Technical in International Relationships, University of Cádiz