More Pathways Out of Poverty

* Follow up to the case studies presented in 2002's Pathways out of Poverty * Companion book to the 2006 Global Microcredit Summit More Pathways Out of Povertyexplores new practices in microfinance, some of them revolutionary, and draws on the success of the industry to illustrate the challenges involved in lifting clients out of poverty. Taken together, the contributions from leading microfinance leaders and institutions serve as a map for ensuring that microcredit contributes powerfully to cutting absolute poverty in half by 2015. For more information about the Global Microcredit Summit, visit: www.microcreditsummit.org

Anna Awimbo is Research Director of the Microcredit Summit Campaign. She has had several years of experience working on women's and youth issues to help identify alternative strategies for poverty alleviation. Her work has included tracking data to monitor the Microcredit Summit Campaign's progress towards its goal. She co-designed and is part of the Summit's team that coordinates trainings in Africa and Asia on the systematic integration of microcredit with education in child survival, HIV/AIDS prevention and reproductive health. Ms. Awimbo also serves on the Business Advisory Council of Five Talents International, an Anglican initiative to combat poverty through microenterprise development. Sam Daley-Harris is president and founder of RESULTS Educational Fund, an international citizens' lobby dedicated to creating the political will to end hunger and poverty. RESULTS organized the February 1997 Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC. The Summit seeks to reach 100 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, with credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by 2005. Mr. Daley-Harris is author of Reclaiming Our Democracy: Healing the Break Between People and Government and editor of Pathways Out of Poverty: Innovations in Microfinance for the Poorest Families.