Building Financial Resilience: How Financial Service Providers can Help Low-Income Customers to Manage Risk
This paper showcases a range of services Savings at the Frontier partner financial service providers have developed, and presents reasons why informal savings mechanisms and their members might find them valuable.
Leveraging Customer Complaints Data to Monitor Consumer Protection in Mobile Services in Uganda
This report summarizes the key findings and recommendations from IPA's work with the Uganda Communications Commission analyzing complaint records of mobile financial services users.
Agricultural Finance Africa – Coaching Programme Guidance Notes
This guide aims to share the experience accumulated by FAO and ADA from 2017 to 2021 during the coaching program implementation, designed to improve smallholder farmers' access to funding in agricultural value chains.
Demystifying PAYGo Solar Accounting
Greater transparency and harmonization of accounting practices can help the industry advance. A new accounting brief from PAYGo PERFORM provides a first step in that direction.
Can Insurance Make Small-Scale Solar Energy More Accessible?
Small-scale solar installations have been an important innovation to bring electricity to remote areas, but they face many risks which jeopardize their ability to provide a continuous energy supply.
Women's Empowerment Is Complex, Multidimensional, and Context-Specific; Measuring Empowerment Should Be Too
In this blog we feature three studies that have reconsidered standard approaches to the measurement of women's empowerment with surprising results.
The Mobile Money Prevalence Index (MMPI): A Country-Level Indicator for Assessing the Adoption, Activity and Accessibility of Mobile Money
This paper presents MMPI, a composite index that considers mobile money adoption, activity and accessibility at country level in order to facilitate comparisons between markets.