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.

World Vision shares how they are working to support community-level financial institutions and promote grassroots-level transformation of the financial system

The lifeline provided by remittances can help advance financial inclusion among vulnerable populations.

An invitation to microfinance networks and organizations to join the coalition and raise their voices

How investors respond during this pandemic will determine the extent to which MFIs are able to respond to the needs of their customers.

A proposal for key principles and structures to help MFIs and their clients survive the pandemic-induced economic crisis 

What can financial cooperatives and their supervisors do to manage the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic?

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.

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. 

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.