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FinDev Guide
Top Ten Blog Posts of 2021
In 2021, over 40 FinDev community members contributed to our blog on topics ranging from financial health to mobile money to housing finance. What were your favorite blog posts from the past year?
FinDev Interview
How To Keep the Human Touch While Digitizing Agricultural Value Chains
Hedwig Siewertsen of AGRA discusses the different digital solutions for financing agricultural value chains that were shared at African Microfinance Week this year.
FinDev Blog
Shifting Perspectives: From Financial Inclusion to Financial Health of Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs)
Three years since the Global Compact on Refugees, financial health remains elusive for most refugees. New research puts forth a financial health framework for measuring progress against the challenges refugees face.
By Linnea Kreibohm, Barri Shorey, Hans-Martin Zademach, Kim Wilson
FinDev Blog
Financial Health and Consumer Protection: Two Frameworks Converging
What do these distinct yet overlapping frameworks have in common and how do they affect each other?
By Eric Duflos, Juan Carlos Izaguirre, CGAP
FinDev Interview
WhatsApp and Algorithms: How to Get Financing to Farmers in East Africa
The founders of Ugandan fintech Emata share how their solution is helping dairy farmers and their cooperatives access finance and manage operations.
FinDev Blog
How Long Should It Take to Build a Home?
Housing microfinance product innovations could help more families finish their homes and improve the overall customer experience.
By Jitendra Balani, Farzana Bijur, Habitat for Humanity’s Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter
FinDev Blog
Financial Health: The Opportunity for Financial Service Providers
If FSPs prioritize the financial health of their customers, they will not only increase customer loyalty, but they will build a more robust client base that will lead to longer term sustainability for their businesses.
By Payal Dalal, Mastercard
FinDev Blog
Demystifying PAYGo Solar Accounting
Greater transparency and harmonization of accounting practices can help the industry advance. A new accounting brief from PAYGo PERFORM provides a first step in that direction.
By Lucia Spaggiari, Bill Gallery, Kevin Kennedy, Roan Borst
FinDev Guide
Guide to African Microfinance Week 2021
This guide highlights some of the key activities participants can look forward to, including a wide range of training courses, two days of conference sessions, an Innovators' Village and Investors' Fair.
FinDev Blog
How Do We Measure Financial Health?
In the third post of our blog series on financial health, we explore how capturing the essence of this multi-dimensional concept takes us beyond standard measures of financial access or income.
By Paul Gubbins, Ben Mazzotta