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Gender-Intelligent Fintech Design: How Fintechs Can Capture the Female Economy
This report quantifies the opportunity cost of not taking a gender-intelligent approach and lays out a map that fintechs can use to improve conversion rates of women through each stage of the funnel, equipping fintechs and their investors to take the steps to win the women’s market.
Impact Evaluation of Credit Guarantee Schemes in Agriculture
This study aims to assist policymakers, the academia, development agencies or other stakeholders in overcoming the current gap in empirical data on the impact of agricultural partial credit guarantee schemes by providing key information on technical and operational aspects of impact evaluations of credit guarantee schemes in agriculture.
Innovations and Emerging Trends In Agricultural Insurance for Smallholder Farmers – An Update
This report provides an update of the state of agricultural insurance stocktaking conducted in 2016 covering 52 national agricultural insurance programs and two regional programs in 32 low- and middle-income countries.
Insights From the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 Applicant Pool
This report examines application data from nearly 300 eligible fintech applicants from the 2021 Inclusive Fintech 50 competition to better understand the state of early-stage fintechs.
Investing to Address Gender-Based Violence
This guide outlines strategies on how you can direct investments to address gender-based violence along with providing tools to support conversations with investment advisors and asset managers to help implement those strategies.
Policy Framework on MSME Data Collection: A Guide for Gender Inclusive Finance
This Framework provides data collection guidance for MSME and gender inclusive finance, defines an extended set of MSME finance indicators, and shares best practices to advance financial inclusion for MSMEs.
Seguros Futuro: Growth of El Salvador’s Only Cooperative Insurer
This brief demonstrates the growth of Seguros Futuro and its new parametric insurance product.
Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap
This paper presents research findings on the key challenges women face in accessing digital financial services and the design opportunities for the financial sector, policymakers and regulators, the philanthropic sector, NGOs, and designers everywhere.
Resilient and Inclusive Financial Services Delivery During COVID-19
This report draws on the lessons that main actors in Zambia, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone have learned about resilience in the times of COVID-19 and identifies key insights into how they have continued to expand financial inclusion.
"The First Wealth is Health"
This publication presents lessons and best practices from the European Microfinance Award 2021 on "Inclusive Finance & Health Care".