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Connecting the Remittance Ecosystem in the Northern Triangle
This white paper examines the barriers and opportunities to boosting digital remittances in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.
From Crisis to Resilience: The Role of Inclusive Finance in Fragile Countries
This working paper identifies three levers of change for funders in contexts where long-term financial market building is a challenge: leveraging humanitarian cash transfers, understanding informal financial services, and improving local market facilitation.
Gender Inclusive Finance Roadmap for the Latin America and Caribbean Region
This report provides evidence-based, gender-transformative policy solutions that consider the unique needs, interests, and behaviors of both women and men.
Gender-Disaggregated Data in Financial Institutions: A Pragmatic Perspective
This article proposes a pragmatic approach, with tangible use cases and best practices for collecting, analyzing and using gender-disaggregated data to accelerate women's financial inclusion.
IFAD Remittance Innovation Toolkit
This toolkit provides practical guidance for regulators and remittance service providers on how to assess national regulatory environments to identify opportunities for innovation in know your customer and customer due diligence processes to enhance remittance access.
Implementing Financial Health: Creating Mutual Success for Financial Service Providers and Clients
This report presents the business case for financial health, offering a comprehensive theoretical framework and actionable steps to assist financial service providers in adopting a proactive approach to support their clients’ financial health.
Scaling Responsible Digital Payments in the Indonesian Cocoa Sector
For digital payments to be meaningful for farmers, the study finds that digitization needs to be strongly linked to access to a broader suite of financial services, to unlock farm investments and smooth day-to-day consumption.
Scaling Responsible Digital Payments in the Indonesian Cocoa Sector
This case study shares findings from a first-of-its-kind sizing exercise to assess opportunities for digital financial inclusion for smallholder cocoa farmers.
The Landscape of Microinsurance 2023
This study, drawing on extensive primary research, encompasses insights from 294 insurers covering 1,040 insurance products across diverse sectors, including health, life, agriculture, and property.