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One Year On: What a Year of Surveys Tell Us About COVID-19 and Microfinance
2020 was a historic year that demonstrated the resilience of the microfinance sector. Maxime Borgogno of Grameen Crédit Agricole Foundation shares why most MFIs they surveyed remain optimistic about the future.
FinDev Blog
Creating a Resilient New Normal for Savings Groups
World Vision shares how they are working to support community-level financial institutions and promote grassroots-level transformation of the financial system
By Richard Rumsey, World Vision
FinDev Blog
COVID-19 Threatens the Microfinance Sector and the Livelihoods of Those We Serve: Building a Coalition for Collective Action
An invitation to microfinance networks and organizations to join the coalition and raise their voices
By The Microfinance Coalition
FinDev Blog
From the Microfinance Coalition: Call to Action for Investors
How investors respond during this pandemic will determine the extent to which MFIs are able to respond to the needs of their customers.
By The Microfinance Coalition
FinDev Blog
Urgent: A Rescue Plan for the Microfinance Sector
A proposal for key principles and structures to help MFIs and their clients survive the pandemic-induced economic crisis
By Ira Lieberman, Paul DiLeo
FinDev Blog
Three Principles to Help Financial Cooperatives Weather the COVID-19 Storm
What can financial cooperatives and their supervisors do to manage the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic?
By Dave Grace, International Credit Union Regulators’ Network (ICURN)
FinDev Guide
COVID-19 FinDev Weekly Update #1
A roundup of the most relevant coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past week, carefully curated by FinDev editors for the microfinance and financial inclusion community.
FinDev Blog
COVID-19: How Does Microfinance Weather the Coming Storm?
If the microfinance sector is going to survive the pandemic, we need to treat COVID-19 as the fundamental threat to the industry that it likely is.
By Greta Bull, Timothy Ogden
FinDev Blog
COVID-19: How Is the Pandemic Affecting Your Work and the Clients You Serve?
We invite you to join an open discussion among the global financial inclusion and microfinance community on the effects of this pandemic and how organizations are preparing to deal with it.
FinDev Guide
FinDev Guide to Data - Tracking the Global Response to COVID-19
Find out who is tracking what with this list of coronavirus-related data and trackers useful for the financial inclusion community.