TAMFI TASK FORCE MEETING HELD ON 6TH FEBRUARY AT DCB BOARD ROOM, ARNAUTOGLU, MNAZI MMOJA

TAMFI TASK FORCE MEETING HELD ON 6TH FEBRUARY AT DCB BOARD ROOM, ARNAUTOGLU, MNAZI MMOJA


PRESENT
Mr. E.P. Mkwawa , Chairman
Mr. A. Millinga, Member
Mr. G. Ndabimala, Member

AGENDA
- To lay strategies of making TAMFI more visible to its members and potential members.

AGENDA 01: OPENING THE MEETING
The meeting was called to order by the chairman at 10.15 hrs by reminding the members of the agreement in the Board meeting of the 4th February to seek possible ways of fast tracking the possibility of securing funds from the central Bank to finance few identified projects that will show and demonstrate to members that TAMFI is now in existence for the benefit of the Microfinance sector.

AGENDA 2: FAST TRACKING CENTRAL BANK FUNDS
It was resolved that effective Monday 8th February, 2008 Mr. E.P. Mkwawa and A. Millinga to make a fast track follow-up with the Bank to make sure that this fund is received at earliest possible time that will make it possible for the identified projects to take place.
Apart from the central Bank alternative sources were identified in case the funds from the central Bank do not materialize in time. These include:-
- Stromme Microfinance East Africa Ltd
- IFAD and
- FSDT
It was agreed that a request letter for Stromme, IFAD and FSDT should be signed by Mr. A. Millinga.



AGENDA 3: IDENTIFIED PROJECTS
3.1 It was agreed that two projects should carried out. These include:
- Workshop on MFI Policy, Legal and Regulatory Environment
- Workshop on Micro Agricultural Finance and

3.2 The preparatory committee for the MFI Policy, legal and Regulatory Environment was agreed to come from two categories
- From the Banks ( DCB and Access) and
- From NGOs ( YOSEFO and PRIDE Tanzania)

The preparatory committee for the workshop on Micro Agricultural Finance to include:

- Professor Temu as a resource person and presenter of the paper on Agricultural on Finance and
- Mr. A. Millinga to present a paper on Financing small holder farmers opportunities and Challenges.

It was agreed that all preparations of these workshops should be complete by 28th of February 2010 while a 30 days notice for the workshops should be ensured.

AGENDA 4: CLOSING THE MEETING
The Chairman closed the meeting at 11. 30 hrs.