What Constitutes a Viable Business Model for Small Scale Savings?
This paper highlights three different business models, including key revenues and costs drivers, to help understand the market potential of various low-income segments.
Persona Segmentation Toolkit
To drive inclusive finance in Nigeria, and EFInA and WSBI’s Scale2Save program are launching the Persona Segmentation Toolkit which allows financial institutions in Nigeria to use the EFInA financial access data, demographic, and socio economic household data in a simple, practical way.
COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Livelihoods in Africa: A new Sex Disaggregated Data Set for SSA
Members of FinMark Trust present the methodology behind their COVID-19 tracker and share initial insights on the impact of COVID-19 on women’s resilience and economic participation in selected sub-Saharan African countries.
COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Livelihoods in Africa
FinEquity and i2i discussion on an innovative demand data set tracking COVID-19 in Africa.
Preserving Liquidity: Policymaker Responses to COVID-19 and the Impact on Low-Income Customers
Financial Solutions for Women in Rural and Agricultural Livelihoods
This research provides insights on the disproportionate need and strategic opportunity for improving the lives and livelihoods of rural women.
From Ideation to Iteration: Human-Centered Design of Micro-Savings in Nigeria
LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.
Measuring Fees and Transparency in Nigeria’s Digital Financial Services
This study investigates three key barriers preventing many potential customers from joining the formal financial system: the reliability of financial services, the cost of using these services, and the limited transparency of cost information.
Strategies to Optimize MSME-Centered Supply Chain Finance Solutions: A Study of Ghana, Ethiopia, and Nigeria
Given the urgency of digital transformation to build an inclusive recovery, this paper provides timely insights into how to enable supply chain finance models in three African countries.