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2020 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
International funders committed approximately $58 billion to financial inclusion in 2020, a $6 billion increase from the prior year. Commitments from public funders continued to drive growth.
Gender Lens Investing Landscape: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Financial Inclusion for Women
This report provides evidence that while microfinance has been a driver of economic opportunities for underserved women globally, a more well-rounded gender lens investing approach is required to generate the level of impact necessary to truly advance financial inclusion for women.
Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
Gender-Smart Investing in MENA
The goal of this Brief is to catalyze discussion and action across gender-smart investing practitioners, Egyptian firms and impact investors.
Fintech and Financial Inclusion: A Funders' Guide to Greater Impact
This practical guide, based on two years of global research, describes how development funders can identify promising fintechs and maximize their impact.
Survey Report on Fintech for MSME Access to Financing
This survey report provides insights on the regulatory landscape of the usage of fintech to increase access to financing for MSMEs and the overall promotion of financial inclusion.
2019 Trends in International Funding for Financial Inclusion
CGAP Funder Survey documenting global trends in funding for financial inclusion.
A Research and Learning Agenda for the Impact of Financial Inclusion
Recommendations for funders of impact research, policy makers, and the financial inclusion research community
Designing Data Initiatives to Advance Financial Inclusion
This online tool is meant for donors and development finance institutions to leverage the potential of data to achieve financial inclusion impact.
Employment Effects in Impact Investments: Key Insights Emerging Across Studies in Tanzania and in Zimbabwe
The analysis concludes that the investments as part of the joint ILO-EU STRENGHTEN Project triggered an increase in employment numbers along with improved skills of the labor force, management systems of the investee companies, and labor practices.