Digital Adoption of MSMEs During COVID-19
This report explores how MSMEs used digital products during the pandemic, what barriers they faced with digital adoption, and what can be done to support the growth of MSMEs in the digital economy.
Assessment of the Implementation and Usage of QRIS Among Small and Micro-Merchants in Indonesia
This study provides analysis and implementation status of Quick Response Code Indonesian Standard (QRIS) and shares the challenges and opportunities to increase QRIS usage in Indonesia.
National Study on Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana
This national-level study on India’s cash assistance initiative is intended to assess the cash transfer system’s efficacy and efficiency and capture the experience of the beneficiaries in how they receive and use the benefit.
Design in Action
FinEquity’s Catherine Highet spoke with Kiran Agarwal Todi of Ashv in India and Nirza Fumo of Women in Business (WIN) in Mozambique, discussing their use of gender-intelligent design to shape financial services to better suit women’s needs. This interactive conversation focused on the design process, iteration and adaption and measuring impact, looking at the approaches that these organizations are taking.
How Can We Help Agricultural SMEs Respond to the Food Crisis?
These turbulent times of pandemic, climate change and war require action from the financial inclusion community to ensure growth and sustainability for agri-preneurs.
Diagnosing Gender Norms in Financial Inclusion – What Are We Learning?
This dynamic webinar gave us a chance to hear from the participants of our CoLab as they share lessons learned about how to diagnose gender norms, their findings and how they plan to use these findings in their own effort to advance women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment.
Is Access to Smartphones Essential to Bridge the Digital Divide?
This study looks at the role of smartphones in household resilience and the significant barriers and challenges that that prevent them from realizing their potential.
Water and Wellbeing in a Changing World
A strong evidence base helps strengthen the case for water and sanitation financing to meet Sustainable Development Goal 6.
How Can Small Scale Savings Be Offered Sustainably?
After six years of implementation, Scale2Save shares a number of lessons learned around the key drivers they identified for viable business models and the institutional factors that affect an FSP’s ability to offer low-balance savings products.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Is Changing the Financial Sector
This factsheet shares the German government's AI approach, which stipulates that the potential of AI should be harnessed for development and contribute to achieving the sustainability goals of the 2030 Agenda.