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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.
Microfinance Clients Facing the COVID-19 Crisis: From Findings to Action for MFIs
This publication presents the main results of MFI client surveys in seven countries (Bhutan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Cape Verde and El Salvador), as well as the concrete measures taken by MFIs to meet the needs expressed by their clients.
Using Pay-for-Results to Catalyze Affordable Housing Development
This case study analyzes the Haiti Homeownership and Mortgage Expansion program’s methodology for designing its Pay-for-Results incentive structure, its results, and lessons learned.
A COVID Microfinance Liquidity Tour of Asia
Cross country data and analysis on different types of microfinance service providers
Saving Cash, Saving Lives
The experiences of Haitian savings groups during COVID-19
An Assessment of Policy and Regulatory Constraints and Enablers to Women’s Financial Inclusion in Myanmar
In-depth review and analysis of existing policies and regulations accompanied by a literature review