Cracking the Nut 2024: Preparing for Accelerated Climate Change
Cracking the Nut® 2024 will focus on creative ways to leverage public and private sector investment to support climate adaptations in agriculture.
GFSI and the ONDC Network Join Forces to Empower Women and Small Enterprises Through Digital Inclusion
The joint initiative aims to leverage their combined strengths to benefit farmer producer organizations, nano, micro, small, and medium enterprises, Self-Help Groups, women entrepreneurs, start-ups, and similar entities.
Strange Bedfellows? Why Fintechs and MFIs Are Actually the Perfect Match
More than a decade of successful MFI-fintech partnerships have proven that the two can be much more than "frenemies." Here are seven success factors for great partnerships.
Building Radical Financial Confidence Through Inclusive Design
IDEO’s Last Mile Money program proposes new design paradigms for digital finance to center the experience of people living in poverty.
Four Major Challenges Faced by Mobile Money Users in Senegal
As access to digital finance grows, so do the risks. A concrete action plan involving all stakeholders is needed to address them.
Creating Economic Self-Sufficiency through Village Model Micro-Lending
Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment in Practice
Seven of FinEquity's WEE Co-Lab partners tested a draft WEE measurement questionnaire, based on a background paper published last year. This webinar shared experiences from the the Co-Lab participants, the final set of indicators as well as guidance on how to incorporate the indicators into your organization's measurement of WEE.
Suzuki Launches $40M Fund in India to Support Social Entrepreneurs
The fund will support and invest in social entrepreneurs working in the fields of agriculture, financial inclusion, supply chain and mobility, with the aim of solving social issues in India through business.
Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool
Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.