SESRIC organised a training workshop on “How to Develop, Operate and Sustain Islamic Microfinance Institutions” in Nairobi, Kenya on 10-11 November 2016 in collaboration with AlHuda Centre of Islamic Banking & Economics (CIBE) and Akhuwat-Islamic Microfinance, as a post event of the Sixth Global Islamic Microfinance Forum held during 8-9 November at the same venue which was attended by more than 100 participants.

The training workshop was attended by relevant microfinance institutions from 9 OIC Member States as well as other non-member countries throughout the Africa and relevant international organisations such as Islamic Corporation for the Development of the Private Sector (ICD) of IDB Group, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) among others.

The training workshop focused on the following topics:

• Legal and Regulatory Framework of Islamic Microfinance
• Takaful and Micro Takaful
• Product Development
• Case Studies on Islamic Financial Cooperatives
• Best Practices in Microfinance
• Human Resource Management in Islamic Micro Finance Institutions (MFI)
• MFI Insight Analytics

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