IIRR - Silang Seminar - Rural Enterprises

June 20 - 21, 2007
IIRR, Silang, Cavite, Philippines

Schedule and Presentations

DAY 1: JUNE 20, 2007 (Wednesday)
	Plenary
		Building the Rural Enterprise Revolution from the ground up: PinoyME (Micro-enterprise) By: Former President Corazon C. Aquino Conventor, PinoyME

	Session 1: Building a Market Infrastructure (value chain for Rural Enterprise
		Live Case: Building a Supply Chain Live Case: Building a supply chain for the seaweed industry in Indonesia and the Philippines By: Euan Marshall & Colin Taylor International Finance Corporation (IFC) Promoting Enterprise Program (PEP)

		Creating the value chain for the vegetable industry in Northern Mindanao : The case of NorminVeggies By: Jasmin PG Agbon Senior Vegetable Industry Development Advisor USAID Growth with Equity in Mindanao (GEM)

		Linking upland producers with the global market: The case of the Upland Marketing Foundation By: Rene Guarin Upland Marketing Foundation, Inc. (Philippines)

	Session II: Financing Rural Enterprise
		Financing rural enterprise: Learning from the Field By: Aristotle Alip President, CARD Microfinance Bank, Philippines

		Financing supervised agricultural production for small farmers with linkages to long-term buyers: The One-Agri Product financing scheme of OneNetwork Bank By: Alex Buenaventura President, OneNetwork Bank, Mindanao

		Managing portfolio risk in lending to rural enterprises: What has worked in the Philippines? By: Corazon D. Conde Senior Vice President Development Bank of the Philippines

	Session III
		Introduction of the PinoyME Social Investment Fund By: Deogracias N. Vistan Chair, Phil Social Investment Fund

		Launching of IIRR Publication: "Building Resilient Communities - A Training Manual on Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction" By: Juan Miguel Luz President, IIRR

DAY 2: JUNE 21, 2007 (Thursday)
	Plenary Session IV
		Making Technology pay off for the rural poor: Managing the human resource requirements for enterprise development in rural areas By: Dr. William D. Dar Director-General, ICRISAT ( International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics), India

	Session V: Human Resource and Technology Issues
		The human resource capacity needed to make the transformation from livelihoods to micro-enterprises to small/medium-scale industry: The IIRR Kenya Microfund Program Experience By: Isaac Bekalo Regional Director for Africa , IIRR

		From backyard piggery to multi-million peso industry: The growth of the Cavite Farmers’ Feedmilling and Marketing Coperative since 1976 By: Eliseo Ganuelas, Chair Arnel C. Marasigan, General Manager, CAFFMACO

	Session VI: Regulating Rural Enterprise: The Role of Government in Promitng Rural Enterprise
		Supporting market-driven rural enterprises: The Thai experience in promoting rural products for the global market By: Tanatat Puttasuwan Director, International Affairs Population and Community Development Association

		Local Government Support for the Coffee Industry: Building town brands and value chains By: Chit Juan President, Figaro Coffee Corporation & Mayor Albert Ambagan Amadeo, Cavite Promoter, Amadeo Coffee

	Session VII
		Supporting Market-Driven Rural Enterprise : The World Bank experience in promoting rural enterprises and products for the global market BY: Ambassador Jesus Tambunting Chairman, Planters Development Bank, Philippines Chair, Association of Development Finance Institutions in Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP)