All Publications
The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises
This reading deck investigates the potential of technology-enabled business models to provide underserved micro and small enterprises with responsible financial services.
Financial Inclusion that Works for Women: Lessons and Best Practices from the European Microfinance Award 2022
This publication condenses the themes, pulls together the outstanding cases, profiles the 10 semi-finalists of the European Microfinance Award 2022.
Selling Insurance Through Agent Networks
This brief presents ten lessons from banks, microfinance institutions and existing experiences of insurers in establishing and using agent networks.
The New Green Index 3.0: Mainstreaming Green Inclusive Finance
This publication documents the update process and presents the new Green Index 3.0, its standards and indicators as well as its scoring system and potential uses.
Gender Norms in Financial Inclusion: Diagnostic Guidance
The Diagnostic Guidance is intended for funders and facilitators who support women’s financial inclusion efforts and who want to gain behavioral insights into the uptake and usage of financial services among women.
Lending to Cash-in Cash-out (Cico) Agents
This report focuses on the agent lending landscape in nine low- and middle-income countries that represent mature and evolving markets to provide insights into the larger global opportunity.
Next Generation G2P Payments: Building Blocks of a Modern G2P Architecture
This report provides a framework for a modern G2P payments architecture which can support long-term development outcomes through the digitalization of G2P payments laying out a path to a better, recipient-centered G2P system.
The Financial Inclusion Compass 2022
This publication is based on a survey (May and June 2022), giving practitioners, funders, researchers, and support service providers the opportunity to evaluate and describe the importance of various current trends as well as rate and opine on future priority areas.
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.