The Microcredit Summit Campaign

Previous Meetings

Past summits organized by the Microcredit Summit Campaign

More than 10,000 delegates from over 140 countries have attended the Campaign's meetings

The Global Microcredit Summit 2006 was held from November 12-15, 2006 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. More than 2,000 delegates from over 110 countries participated at the event, assessing progress made toward the Campaign's goal of reaching 100 million of the world's poorest people by the end of 2005, and launching the second phase of the Campaign with two new goals. Those goals are:

1. Working to ensure that 175 million of the world's poorest families, especially the women of those families, are receiving credit for self-employment and other financial and business services by the end of 2015

2.Working to ensure that 100 million families rise above the US$1 a day threshold adjusted for purchasing power parity (PPP), between 1990 and 2015.

Click here for the detailed agenda of the Halifax Summit.

Click here for the papers commissioned for the Summit.

Click here for the MicroNews bulletin from each day of the Summit.

The second Latin America/Caribbean Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (LACRMS) was held in Santiago, Chile April 19-22, 2005. 1,100 delegates from 38 countries attended.
Please see the following E-news issue for excerpts from workshops from this meeting:

Volume 4 Issue 1: May 2006

The Middle East/Africa Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (MEARMS) was held October 10-13, 2004 in Amman, Jordan. 650 delegates from 75 countries attended.
Please see the following E-news issues for excerpts from workshops from this meeting:

Volume 3 Issue 2: October 2005
Volume 3 Issue 1: April 2005

The second Asia/Pacific Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (APRMS) was held in Dhaka, Bangladesh February 16-19, 2004. 1,200 delegates from 47 countries attended.
Please see the following E-news issues for excerpts from workshops from this meeting:

Volume 2 Issue 3: August 2004
Volume 2 Issue 2: July 2004
Volume 2 Issue 1: June 2004

The Microcredit Summit +5 was held in New York City, USA November 12-13, 2002. 2,000 delegates from 100 countries attended.
Please see the following E-news issues for excerpts from workshops from this meeting

Volume 1 Issue 4: September 2003
Volume 1 Issue 3: July 2003
Volume 1 Issue 2: May 2003
Volume 1 Issue 1: March 2003

The first Latin America/Caribbean Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils was held in Puebla, Mexico October 9-12, 2001. 600 delegates from 34 countries attended.

The first Asia/Pacific Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils was held in New Delhi, India February 2-5, 2001. 2,000 delegates from 100 countries attended.

The first Middle East/Africa Region Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils (MEARMS) was held in Harare, Zimbabwe October 8-13, 2000. 580 delegates from 50 countries attended.

The second Global Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils was held in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire June 24-27, 1999. 600 delegates from 85 countries attended.

The first Global Microcredit Summit Meeting of Councils was held in New York City, USA June 24-27, 1998. 1,000 delegates from 107 countries attended.

The original Microcredit Summit was held in Washington, DC, USA in February 2-4, 1997. 2,900 delegates from 137 countries attended.
Please visit the following links for materials:
Declaration and Plan of Action