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How to Design Client-Centric Financial Solutions for Women Smallholders
BRAC International Microfinance shares five lessons from their experience designing and testing tailor-made agri-credit solutions in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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A Fair Digital Finance Market Failure: What a Recent Consumer Protection Index Reveals
The fair digital finance index measures the consumer experience of digital financial services and has found that, while stark global differences do exist, consumer protection needs remain unmet across the board.
Agent Gender Matters, but How to Recruit and Retain Women Agents?
This blog post shares four strategies to help FSPs overcome the obstacles they face in onboarding female agents and create an environment that encourages women to join and thrive as agents.
A Win for Women in Rwanda
Mobile money – and concerted efforts by government and mobile money operators to promote it - has helped reduce the financial inclusion gender gap. But more needs to be done.
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This publication provides FSPs the knowledge to use women-centered design for developing financial products and services that work for women.
This publication captures the lessons learned from implementing climate risk insurance solutions in the Pacific over the last two years.
Cocoa is one of the world’s most prized foods, but the smallholder farmers in Cote d’Ivoire who produce it live in extreme poverty. Formal land ownership can improve their financial outlook.
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Mobile Money, Interoperability, and Financial Inclusion
This paper investigates the role of competition on the behavior of mobile money companies and its corresponding effects on financial inclusion.
State of the Art of Green Inclusive Finance 2011-2019
This report, which is the result of a collaborative effort with the Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group, offers a comprehensive overview of the current landscape of green inclusive finance.
UNCDF: Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025
The Strategy highlights the centrality of addressing structural and discriminatory practices, and creating a conducive policy and institutional framework as an important foundation on which to build a financing agenda that targets equitable economic development and gender-responsive transformation.
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FinDev Webinars enable financial inclusion practitioners to share lessons and attend online presentations and discussions delivered by the world’s leading financial inclusion experts.
Hope and Big Dreams: Meet the Authors of Two Books on Bangladesh Microfinance Pioneers
Join us for a conversation with the authors of two books who will take us through the journey of microfinance and the story of BRAC and Grameen Bank, two innovative institutions that contributed to Bangladesh’s development and the spread of microfinance globally.
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