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Why Gender Diversity Matters

Gender diversity matters in microfinance. WWB champions gender diversity because we believe that diverse perspectives lead to stronger decisions and healthier, more vibrant organizations. Incorporating women’s voices when designing and delivering microfinance products is particularly important when a majority of clients are women. Equally as important, microfinance clients often speak of the inspiration they derive from seeing powerful women leaders in the organizations that serve them. How best to achieve diversity? The answer lies in leadership and technical skill development of individual, high-potential leaders as well as in organizational transformations to ensure that all women and men work in environments where they can perform, excel and lead.

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“Transforming the Landscape of Leadership in Microfinance: Maintaining the Focus on Women” introduces WWB’s new methodology for helping MFIs support gender diversity at all levels of their institution. WWB has expanded its Women’s Leadership Development Program, which works with individuals, to include a tool that focuses on the challenges and opportunities microfinance institutions face in the attraction, retention, and promotion of qualified women staff members - the Organizational Gender Assessment. Now available in English and Spanish.

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Management Development Training of Trainers

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Overview


The four day Management Development course addresses the key concepts of managing for results and aims to develop transformational skills for MFI managers. The first part of the course focuses on the participants’ understanding of themselves and how they interact with others. The second part is anchored on this self-understanding and introduces tools that build skills in managing people and processes. Topics in the course include: Understanding your Style, Getting Commitment to Action, Coaching for Improved Performance Appraising for Results and Motivating for Peak Performance. The course is action-oriented—participants are given the opportunity to immediately test their understanding of concepts as well as try out emerging skills by simulating actions that they might take in given situations. The simulation, known as the “In Basket Exercise,” draws upon relevant microfinance cases to drive learning. Target for this course are mid-level managers of microfinance institutions who are directly responsible for managing, supervising or training staff.


Training of Trainers


The training of trainers is aimed at building and expanding the capacity of the whole microfinance industry to deliver the MDP as a skill-building course to MFIs in different regions. Typically a 6 day course, the first 4 days will be a regular MDP course and the last two days will be the training of trainers. In the last two days, participants take on the platform and take turns at being presenters and facilitators for the different modules. The facilitators as well as their fellow trainees give immediate feedback on how effective they were at presenting the concepts as well as facilitating discussions among the participants. This second run of the course further reinforces the participants’ understanding of the key concepts as well as contributes to their mastery of the course as future trainers. Participants who are certified under a training of trainers program are eligible to conduct or co-conduct the course in their own institutions or for other institutions.


Program Details



  • Program Costs: Program costs include tuition, housing (based on double occupancy), breakfast and lunch, and course materials. Once your application has been approved, you will be sent information on submitting the conference fee payment.

  • Hotel: WWB will arrange all hotel reservations. All accommodations and the workshop sessions will be held at the same location. Please note: participants are required to be booked at the hotel for the duration of the workshop. Hotel details will be provided once the individual’s application has been approved and registration has been completed.

  • Travel: Participants are responsible for making all of their own travel arrangements including flights, visas (where applicable), and ground transportation to and from the hotel.

  • Meals: Breakfast and lunch are part of the conference package. A group dinner will be held one evening during the workshop. More information on the welcome dinner will be included in your welcome package. Participants are required to cover all additional dinners during the course of the training.

For questions about the program, please contact the center: http://leadership.swwb.org/contact