did you keep in touch with whomever led the spanish-speaking womens movement that awarded mrs begum a UN prize 2 year ago; and if so was she also connected with the emergence of UNwomen . I ask partly because a coordinated change-world-leading approach supporting yunus has been absent from womens movements both in current crisis and actually since I have first know him.

If we can't help put together such a network in the run up to queen sofia hosting madrid world microcreditsummit then it seems to me we dont know how to actionably network for millennium goals -not in a way that can practically compete against the opposing macro forces that people like sheikh hasina link in to

MORE FIRST JOBS

- a first job of such a network could be to celebrate with brazil's (female) prime minister the upcoming announcement of brazil's poverty alleviation program wiith microcredit at its centre; a womens review of microcredits in s.americas would also be a prime topic for the special issue of the journal of social business targeting publication date for madrid november;

through sarkozyassuming the new IMF leader is chrstine lagade, the world of yunus women group should be in her diary on day 1-

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=437717&version=1&template_id=46&parent_id=26

this sort or article suggest she will immeditaly have to listen to asian voices but that makes it vital they are micro-up female ones not the usual suspects of macro-down males


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other mails in this series
make sure micro-women lead the debate on what asian uni of women is for

make sure telecentres movements goals for next 10 years resonate micro womens 16 D cultre of what hubs/centres are for in poverty museum race

re-issue millennium goals and coordinate round micro up not top down summits

12 MODEL MICROCREDITS

Dear Professor Latifee

Zasheem tells me deadline is imminent of issue 2 of Journal of Social Business. I recommend that a back page of journal is used to feature a growing list of model microcredits around the world of grameen trust and loyal friends of yunus economics.

If we start with 12 now- a much fuller list could appear in issue 3 which is the specail issue being published at time dr yunus testifies to us congress as genius pro-youth economist

(In its first 50 years The Economist used its back pages to update key refernce data and I feel journal of social business can gain from going likewise. While I would like to see a social business catlaogue emerge, I assume that right now: microcredits are already a more established listing)

Here’s a guess of what could be an exciting world tour of 12 microcredits

Bangladesh Grameen

Mexico Grameen Carso

35 model agriculture markets of wholeplanetfoundation

Kenya Jamii Bora

China – please choose one

India- please choose one

Pakistan KASF

Turkey TGMP

USA Grameen America

France ADIE

Bolivia and region Pro Mujer

Philippines CARD


Obviously you would need to edit this list as I am only making guesses. Nor is 12 a sacred number. FINCA might be a candidate to be included; I have a feeling that KIVA's Flannery would like to dicsuss how to help yunus more but I don know who is animating that dialogue

If you approve of this idea please correspond direct with zasheem and his glasgow/adam smith editorial team so that it is actioned


best

chris macrae