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A Brief Introduction to WASH For Impact Investors
This paper introduces the publication of the "Handbook on WASH for Impact Investors", a comprehensive document based on thorough secondary research and interviews with key stakeholders.
A Handbook on WASH for Impact Investors - Part I
Part I of the Handbook aims to improve awareness about the sector and its linkage with the Sustainable Development Goals.
A Handbook on WASH for Impact Investors - Part II
This publication focuses on WASH economy, drawing attention to the existing funding gap, identifying challenges and preconceived ideas about investing in WASH projects and advancing solutions to tackle the identified challenges.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Regulators
This reading deck for regulators shows how expanding rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent networks is key to ensuring more inclusive digital financial systems, illustrates industry innovations that are making rural CICO more viable and presents a set of regulatory considerations that can enable such innovations within a stable financial system.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Financial Service Providers
This deck shares CGAP's and its partners' comprehensive compilation of recent global knowledge about how Cash-in/Cash-Out agent networks operate in different markets so that it can inform a similar dialogue among financial services providers, policy makers and regulators in other countries.
Agent Networks at the Last Mile: Implications for Policy Makers
This reading deck for policy makers shows how rural Cash-in/Cash-out (CICO) agent network expansion is key to ensuring poor people can capture the benefits of digital financial ecosystems and presents a set of policies that have been effective in enabling rural CICO in a way that benefits vulnerable segments.
Application of CGAP Customer Outcomes Framework in Uganda
This case study tests the impact of a new basic savings product positioned in the financial inclusion market using the CGAP customer outcome indicator framework.
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
This report explores the challenges and opportunities to achieve equitable and inclusive participation in the digital economy, particularly to create or enhance livelihood opportunities.
Central Bank Digital Currency – An Opportunity for Financial Inclusion in Developing and Emerging Economies?
This special report on central bank digital currencies (CBDC) and financial inclusion looks at the current state of financial inclusion across different developing and emerging economies, and identifies the main use cases CBDC can contribute to.
Colombia's Ingreso Solidario: Improving Social Protection Through Public-Private Collaboration and Responsible Digital Payment Practices as Part of COVID-19 Emergency Response
This case study illustrates how designing programs responsibly can result in greater trust in digital financial services, leading to greater volumes of digital transactions, and increased use of digital savings and e-commerce services.