State of the Practice: Savings Group Linkages 2024
Based on interviews with 46 practitioners across various sectors, this report delineates the contemporary landscape of linkages between informal savings groups and formal financial services.
Positive Friction for Responsible Digital Lending: A Call to Action
This report explores how strategically adding friction to digital financial services can benefit both lenders and borrowers.
Resilient Rural Women: A Guide to Knowledge Resources
This guide points readers to relevant resources that shed light on rural women’s exposure to climate change and emerging solutions that help them adapt and build their resilience.
Empowering Indonesia’s Artisans: Financial Inclusion Insights
This study takes a comprehensive look at the relationship between financial inclusion and economic empowerment through contextual factors such as social norms, income, and financial capability among women artisans in Indonesia.
Consumer Protection for Open Finance Ecosystems
This report identifies several emerging risks related to open finance, and proposes ways in which these risks can be measured, monitored, and mitigated against by leveraging the data available in open finance ecosystems.
A Rapid Analysis of the Gender Intentionality of Africa’s Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs)
This paper investigates gender intentionality using several dimensions including gender-responsive budgeting in African NDCs, and explores whether countries are mobilizing and allocating climate finance with a gender lens.
What's In Store for Embedded Finance?
This podcast episode takes a look at what lies ahead for embedded finance, what forms it will take, what the biggest opportunities and risks are in embedded finance and more.
What Is Economic Violence and What Can Financial Service Providers Do About It?
While it may seem that economic violence could be outside the purview of financial service providers, it is important for the financial inclusion sector to understand and acknowledge this issue.
Supply-Side Gender Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion
This paper explores how supply-side gender-disaggregated data has been collected and used, mainly by financial sector authorities but also by providers, and the challenges and opportunities associated with this work.
How Do You Know If You're Making an Impact? First, Get Better Data
As impact investors increasingly seek deeper impact measurement and reporting, MFIs need to up their game to show if and how their products and services drive positive changes in their clients’ businesses, lives, families, and communities.