The Microcredit Summit defines the poorest families in developing countries as the bottom 50% of those living below their country’s poverty line or those living on less than $1 a day adjusted for purchasing power parity. From 1997 to the present, the Microcredit Summit Campaign has relentlessly pursued its goals, maintaining a steadfast commitment to the Summit’s four core themes. Advocacy organizations can help build the commitment of the general public and of the world’s governments through fundraising, education, policy development and research focused on the Microcredit Summit’s goal. And, it concluded with adoption of the “2013 Partnerships against Poverty Summit Declaration,” which states the following:We had outstanding workshops on issues like working in post-conflict and disaster areas, green energy, child labor, child and youth finance, small and medium enterprise, mobile banking, housing finance, gender challenges, value chains, health services, and appropriate regulatory environments. The Microcredit Summit will establish the Microcredit Summit 2005 Campaign Committee. Delegates to the Latin America/Caribbean Microcredit Summit, held April 19-22, 2005, in Santiago, Chile, had an opportunity to eavesdrop on a statement of such vision when Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh, addressed Chilean President Ricardo Lagos in his closing plenary remarks. RESULTS Education Fund also commits to ensure that 100 million of the world's poorest families move from living on less than per day to more than per day by the end of 2015. In all, we had 6 plenaries, 31 workshops, and 131 speakers.In the 2013 Summit Closing Plenary, we recognized the first Truelift Award recipients and watched a parade of 17 organizations announce publicly their Campaign Commitments, describing the steps they will take in the next two years to help see 100 million people move out of severe poverty. The 333 million people affected equal the Microcredit programs around the world, using a variety of models, have shown that poor people achieve strong repayment records—often higher than those of conventional borrowers. The Microcredit Summit Campaign is a global effort to restore control to people over their own lives and destinies.
... with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the end of 2005. Have Secretary General Kofi Annan participate in the news conference releasing the State of the Microcredit Summit Campaign Report 2005 in November 2005 at the UN. Explore over 8,000 publications, trainings, events, jobs and announcements which have been curated by our editors and submitted by a wide range of organizations from around the world.This report on the Microcredit Summit Campaign outlines the progress made towards, as well as barriers against, the goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest.The report discusses various topics, which include:The report concludes with the story of a woman's triumph over adversity and an acknowledgement of the Summit's success in its goal of eradicating poverty.Learn about upcoming webinars, news and publications.Learn about upcoming webinars, news, and publications.© 2020 CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor). In the industrialized world, the Summit targets all those who live below the poverty line. After six months of training in marketing and production techniques, Maman Motuke got her first loan of US $100, and bought production materials.Today, Maman Motuke and her family no longer live in a broken-down car; they rent a house with two bedrooms and a living room. Have the Microcredit Summit Latin America/Caribbean Meeting in 2005 promoted by the UN and declared an official event of the International Year of Microcredit. In the industrialized world, the Summit targets all those who live below the poverty line. The 17th Microcredit Summit was held in Mérida, Mexico, this September 3rd to 5th, and it was a great success! 1,100 delegates from 38 countries attended. At the Summit more than 2,900 people from 137 countries gathered in Washington, DC. When organizers from a microcredit lending institution interviewed her, she said that she knew how to make chikwangue (manioc paste), and she only needed a few dollars to start production. The agenda included sessions addressing the relationship between microfinance and the environment, agriculture, and health and placed a strong focus on social performance and on client-level outcomes.

For three days, we talked about what we could do to change the system, to create new partnerships and new relationships and to develop products and services that will reach families living in extreme poverty. The success of the first phase of the Campaign, during which those with microloans grew from reaching 7.6 million of the world’s poorest families in 1997 to more than 100 million in 2007, fueled the decision to extend the Campaign. As an example, one of the most viable poverty measurement tools is the PPI (Progress out of Poverty Index) developed by Mark Schreiner for the Grameen Foundation with support from the CGAP/Ford Foundation Social Indicators Project. One significant impediment for member organizations at the outset of the initiative in 2006 was a general lack of sufficient data generated by such measurement tools which could shed light on changes in the level of poverty among microfinance clients.Since 2006, there has been a dramatic increase in the prevalence of poverty measurement tools both in terms of the number of institutions using these tools and in the diversity of tools available. In 2006, the Microcredit Summit Campaign, a project of the RESULTS Educational Fund, committed to help lift 100 million families above the $1.25 a day income threshold and to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, have access to microfinance services by 2015.