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