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FinDev Blog

The Story of Her: Gender Insights from FinScope

FinScope’s layered approach to data collection and analysis allows us to explore women’s empowerment at the individual, household, and community levels.
FinDev Blog

How Can We Improve Education with DFS+?

Proposing digital payment solutions to help keep teachers in classrooms in Niger
FinDev Interview

Closing the Capacity Gap for Financial Service Providers With e-Learning

Post-webinar interview with Josephine Kibe on the Gateway Academy's new training platform, and how they seek to close the gap between demand and supply in the financial inclusion capacity building market.
FinDev Blog

Does Housing Finance Influence Quality of Construction?

While the number of MFIs offering housing microfinance has increased over the years, there has always been a debate about whether financing actually helps improve construction quality.
FinDev Blog

Women’s Empowerment Indicators

Unlike other data sources, FII data has a dedicated gender module measuring women’s economic empowerment, which aims to assess whether women's access to finance results in empowerment.
FinDev Interview

More Than Just a House: Building Sustainable Homes for Rural Communities in Mexico

Interview with European Microfinance Award winner, Cooperativa de Ahorro y Préstamo Tosepantomin, about their sustainable housing program for rural indigenous communities.
FinDev Blog

Sowing Digital Seeds

Given the rapid expansion of digital financial services (DFS) use cases in agriculture, the burning question now is: How can women benefit from these tools at equal rates as men?
FinDev Guide

Top Ten Publications of 2017

Presenting the Gateway’s most downloaded library publications from the past year, plus some bonus Editor's Picks. See what others have been reading, and let us know your favorites from 2017!
FinDev Interview

Microfinance for Housing: State of Play

The Gateway sat down with Christoph Pausch, Executive Secretary of e-MFP, to discuss housing finance, the focus of this year's European Microfinance Week, and what we can learn from recent housing finance initiatives. 
FinDev Interview

From Diamond Future to Cool Teens to SWAG: Designing Financial Products for Young People

Adaeze Ume of Nigeria’s Diamond Bank talks about how and why Diamond Bank works with young clients, and shares insights on banking youth throughout their lifecycle.