The training will be held in partnership with Katipunan Bank located at Cebu City. The course aims to raise remittance receivers awareness of how remittance income may only be temporary and how dependence to remittance will most likely increase their financial vulnerability in the long term. It will assist MFIs on how to expand its market to include remittance receivers through its existing microfinance products - savings, credit, microinsurance, payment services etc.

The course will help:

• Build knowledge and skills around managing remittance flow and help the receiver to use remittance more effectively to match their own financial goals;


• Engage participants in recognizing the value in receiving remittance in a formal financial institution that will serve as entry point to the financial sector;


• Use remittance to leverage other financial products in MFIs from personal savings to loans;


• Making decisions about managing financial services.

Event Website: http://www.sedpi.com/mod/services-Trainingflrs.php

Date: 11 February 2009

Sponsor: Social Enterprise Development Partnerships, Inc. (SEDPI), Ateneo de Manila University

Location: Cebu City

Country: Philippines

Fees and Expenses:

• Filipinos: PhP 200.00 (US$ 4 approx.);


• Foreign nationals: US$ 200

Regions: East Asia and Pacific

Contact Name: Melissa Reyes

Telephone: (632) 426-5659

Email: info@sedpi.com