Sustainable Finance in the MENA Region
This study aimed to gauge MFIs' awareness on the topic of sustainable finance, measure their progress towards sustainability at the institutional and client level and determine the support needed to develop and implement environmental strategies.
Business Correspondent Network Managers Experiment And Demonstrating Scale: Endline Report
This study shares findings from three pilots, in collaboration with six partners, conducted as part of the action research agenda to experiment with product diversification, capacity building, and customer empowerment.
Meeting the Needs of Unbanked Women in the Digital Era
How can the unique needs of unbanked women be met with mobile money? In this blog, WomenSave shares findings from their research in Uganda on how to empower these women to use digital financial services to meet their financial goals.
Advancing Livelihoods Through Financial Inclusion in Iraq
This report provides an overview of the target market and enabling environment for the financial services industry in Iraq.
Starting the Transaction: Payment Initiation and Customer Experience
This technical note is framed to help policymakers and payment system operators understand recent trends in payment initiation and customer experience in making interoperable payments work better for low-income populations.
Instant Payments and Merchants — Pricing Policy Considerations
This technical note helps explain why changes in instant payment pricing are occurring, assesses their impact on market development, and offers suggestions for the path forward.
FinEquity Workshop for FSPs: Designing for Women to Drive Business Growth
This hands-on learning workshop in Mumbai featured key tools for banks, FinTechs, and MFIs to adopt a gender-intelligent approach to product design.
Member Spotlight: Getaneh Gobezie
Getaneh Gobezie, an independent consultant and FinEquity Africa member, sat down with us to share his motivation to work on inclusive financing in rural areas and lessons learned from working on inclusive financing in Ethiopia, Uganda, Liberia, and Rwanda.
Improving Financial Management Training for Women Entrepreneurs: Are Heuristics the Answer?
In this blog, Catherine Highet explores the use of heuristic-based financial training by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and ideas42 as an alternative and promising option to traditional classroom-based trainings for financial management.