Digital Financial Services for Financial Inclusion: Tools for Supervisors
This Technical Guide was created to provide practical guidance and set strong foundations for digital financial services supervision.
Understanding Women Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Use of Mobile Phones for Business
This report provides new data and insights from 10 low- and middle-income countries on the use of mobile phones by women micro-entrepreneurs and the challenges that prevent them from using mobile services for business.
Engaging Financial Services Providers in the Context of G2P Choice
This deck aims to help implementers of G2P choice programs in better reaching recipients and achieving program objectives.
Digitization in Microfinance: Case Studies of Pathways to Success
This Working Paper takes a unique look at MFI innovation with digital technologies by featuring case studies on five MFIs that successfully created measurable customer and business value through digitization.
The Digital Transformation of Small and Micro-Businesses in Bangladesh
This report provides an analysis of the second phase of the Build Back Better—Enhancing Recovery and Resilience of Small and Micro-Businesses (SMB) project in Bangladesh since 2020.
UNCDF: Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025
The Strategy highlights the centrality of addressing structural and discriminatory practices, and creating a conducive policy and institutional framework as an important foundation on which to build a financing agenda that targets equitable economic development and gender-responsive transformation.
Catalyzing Financial Inclusion: Gender-Inclusive Fintech Solutions for Migrants
This report digs into the financial inclusion obstacles disenfranchised migrant populations face in three Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia.
Migrant Financial Resilience: Where Are We in Preparing the Building Blocks?
This paper details the existing ecosystem of providing social protection services, including contributory insurance and pensions for the migrant communities.
Customer Outcomes-Based Approach to Consumer Protection: A Guide to Measuring Outcomes
This reading deck summarizes lessons from a pilot exercise that involved the Financial Sector Conduct Authority (FSCA) and five FSPs in South Africa focused on measuring intermediate customer outcomes from a supervisory perspective.
Digital Wages for Decent Work in Kenya
This research brief analyzes the potential for responsible digital wage payments in Kenya.