Microfinance Lunch Break

📅 Wednesday, 18th of March 2026 at 12:00 pm (CET)
🌐 Live in Auditorium of KBC, Havenlaan 2, 1080 Brussel
🖥️ Or online via livestream
🗨️ The language of the conference is English (only)

Kawien Ziedses des Plantes has over 20 years of experience in financial services and sustainable finance, with a strong focus on impact, ESG and evidence-based decision-making. As Head of Sustainable Impact and Capacity Building at Oikocredit, she ensures that investments contribute to inclusive and sustainable development. Kawien works with a wide range of stakeholders to strengthen transparency, solid reporting and meaningful impact measurement, ensuring improvements into people's lives. 

Rubén Léon has over 10 years of experience in Ecuador and Latin America, focussing on financial inclusion, the solidarity economy and microfinance. He has worked extensively with grassroots organisations and financial institutions to build more inclusive financial systems. Since joining Oikocredit in 2022, Rubén has played a key role in advancing the organisation's impact measurement through the End-Client Survey Programe, strengthening client-level outcome measurement and evidence-based decision making across various partners and contexts.

Programme

• 11:30 am Doors open
• 12:00 pm Welcome and introduction by Frederik Vandepitte, Managing Director Cera, Chairman BRS
• 12:10 pm Microfinance Impact Measurement: what's in it for the clients? By Kawien Ziedses des Plantes, Head of Sustainable Impact & Capacity Building at Oikocredit & Rubén Léon, Specialist in financial inclusion, solidary economy and microfinance
• 12:40 pm Questions and answers
• 13:00 pm Lunch Buffet

May we ask you to confirm your participation before the 15th of March?

Participation is free, however in case of no show without prior notification, we charge 50 euro for costs incurred.
We advise to use public transport or leave your car or bicycle in a nearby car park of bicycle parking spot.