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Child Labor: An Unintended Consequence of Women’s Entrepreneurship?
A new toolkit from Grameen Foundation's RICHES project aims to help women’s economic empowerment programs improve business safety and health for mothers and their children.
By Bobbi Gray, Grameen Foundation
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From Ideation to Iteration: Human-Centered Design of Micro-Savings in Nigeria
LAPO Microfinance Bank learned five important lessons from their experience using a human-centered design process to revamp their child savings account product.
By Irene Wagaki, Lime Group Africa
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Locked out of Learning: Addressing the COVID-19 Education Crisis
Private sector investment is needed to support low-cost private schools in low and medium income countries.
By Atul Tandon, Andrew McCusker, Opportunity International
FinDev Blog
Learn. Save. Earn. Why Do We Celebrate Global Money Week & Aflatoun Day?
Children around the world need to start early to become good money managers. Global Money Week aims to inspire children and young people to learn about money matters, livelihoods and entrepreneurship.
By Roeland Monasch, Aflatoun International
FinDev Blog
Getting It Right: With Mobile for Girls
Mobile offers significant potential to engage people at scale, connecting them to services and solutions that can improve their everyday lives. The rise of mobile banking products, such as Safaricom’s mPesa in Kenya and other digital financial services, show that overcoming specific contextual challenges and responding to the demand of low-income people at scale, requires digitally-led solutions.
By Henri Habershon, Every1Mobile
FinDev Blog
Five Common Misconceptions About Financial Education for Children and Youth
Child and Youth Finance International believes that ending poverty requires teaching children and youth how to manage money responsibly.
By Emma Broholm, Megan Buxton, Sophie Yates, Child and Youth Finance International
FinDev Blog
To Help Youth Succeed Financially, We Have to Hear Them Out First
Opening doors to economic opportunity requires keys. But how often do we pause to ask our young people about what keys they need to succeed? Citi Foundation did just this in their Global Youth Survey.
By Dorothy Stuehmke, Citi Foundation
FinDev Blog
Sesame Street Muppets Take On Financial Empowerment
It all starts with a dream. Then save. Then do. Sesame Workshop’s “Dream, Save, Do - Financial Empowerment for Families” program is helping children and their families build a better future.
By Nada Elattar, Alyson Moskowitz, Sesame Workshop
FinDev Blog
Protecting Children in the Age of Digital Finance
Guidelines on safer payment products for minors launched during Global Money Week
By Jared Penner, Child and Youth Finance International
FinDev Blog
The Path to Achieving Financial Inclusion of Rural Youth
Making Cents President Tim Nourse reviews what they learned from five pilots in the Middle East
By Tim Nourse, Making Cents International