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First, Do No Harm
As the microfinance sector has matured, client protection principles have been introduced around issues such as interest rates and product transparency, fair pricing and appropriate product design. But where do gender-based risks fit into these principles?
By Bobbi Gray, Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice
FinDev Blog
How To Transform Gendered Norms
We can’t achieve women’s financial inclusion without considering harmful social norms and trying to change them.
By Fiona Jarden, CARE International UK
FinDev Blog
Financial Inclusion in Paradise
There are currently no Pacific Island Countries included in the Global Findex Database. So how does the Pacific stack up to the Global Findex?
By Liz Larson, Pacific Financial Inclusion Programme
FinDev Blog
Three Steps for Closing India’s Gender Gap in Digital Financial Services
Grameen Foundation India shares how they are working on the first step of improving women’s digital financial literacy.
By Rahul Ranjan Sinha, Grameen Foundation India
FinDev Interview
What Is Crowdfunding and How Could It Help Financial Inclusion?
Crowdfunding is gaining in worldwide popularity and in the inclusive finance sector. But who is the crowd of these platforms and what deals do they fund? As part of this year’s European Microfinance Week, Marloes Noppen will participate in a panel which attempts to answer these and other questions.
FinDev Interview
Getting Inclusion Right: What Will It Take?
To kick off Financial Inclusion Week 2018, we sat down with Beth Rhyne, Managing Director of the Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI), to hear her thoughts on this year's theme, Getting Inclusion Right, and CFI's 10th anniversary.
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: Learning About Savings
Five key questions we have (partially) answered so far at the Savings Learning Lab
By Diana Dezso, Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: With Mobile for Girls
Mobile offers significant potential to engage people at scale, connecting them to services and solutions that can improve their everyday lives. The rise of mobile banking products, such as Safaricom’s mPesa in Kenya and other digital financial services, show that overcoming specific contextual challenges and responding to the demand of low-income people at scale, requires digitally-led solutions.
By Henri Habershon, Every1Mobile
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: Providing Financial Services to Refugees
Drawing on the findings from recently released market studies in Jordan and Uganda, here are the top five recommendations for financial service providers (FSPs) willing to contribute to the financial inclusion of refugees.
By Micol Pistelli, Philippe Guichandut
FinDev Blog
Go Big by Going Small: Serving the Needs of Smallholder Farmers
Agriculture has not been an easy nut to crack for the microfinance industry. While small family farms are the basis of agricultural production in developing countries, this sector faces many challenges, especially funding. Funders can help to find better pathways to reach small farmers.
By Hannah Siedek, European Investment Bank