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Three Rwandan women smallholder farmers with their arms around each other, smiling.
FinDev Blog

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.
By Sadiaa Haque & Tahjib Shamsuddin, BRAC International Microfinance
Group meeting, Muktinath Bikas Bank of Nepal. Photo credit: Muktinath Bikas Bank.
FinDev Interview

What the Pandemic Taught Us About Savings

Muktinath Bikas Bank offers eight different savings products, specially designed for rural and low-income people in Nepal. The 2020 European Microfinance Award winner shares their experience with savings from before and during the pandemic.
Saraswoti Timilsina. Photo credit: Ezra Millstein, Mercy Corps
FinDev Blog

Three Years Later: Financial Services Spur Recovery Following Nepal’s Gorkha Earthquake

Study finds that access to formal savings and loans played a critical role in coping with disaster 
By Jill Scantlan & Rebecca Radix, Mercy Corps