Financial Inclusion in Malawi

Account Ownership

Percent of adults age 15+ with an account at a financial institution or through a mobile money provider. Regional data excludes high income economies

Source: Global Findex Database

Gender Gap in Account Ownership

Percent of adults age 15+ with an account. Regional data excludes high-income economies

Source: Global Findex Database

Use of Financial Services

Percent of adults age 15+. Regional data excludes high-income economies

Source: Global Findex Database

Country Resources

The Little Data Book on Financial Inclusion 2018

Publications

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Women in a savings group passing money to one another

Paper

February 2022

VisionFund Impact Evaluation - Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation (FAST)

This report provides a research summary of two impact evaluations looking at VisionFund´s FAST program – lending to savings groups, to determine if it accomplished its main program objectives.

Martina Crailsheim

Paper

October 2020

Measuring Progress: Financial Inclusion in Selected SADC Countries

Working methodology in measuring and evaluating the impact of national financial inclusion strategies

Damola Owolade

Case Study

January 2018

Pafupi Savings: Expanding Financial Inclusion to Rural Women

Designing savings products to meet the needs of Malawian women

McDonald, J., Rios, A., Saho, R., Nchembe, E., Ntandaza, N & Chigoga, M.

News & Events

Members of the financial inclusion community contributed the following news and events.

News

FINCA Malawi Receives Initial Disbursement of a $1.5 Million Loan Facility From the Belgian Investment Company for Developing Countries

12 August 2020 / FINCA Impact Finance

United Nations Federal Credit Union Partners With Thunes for Mobile Money Transfers

20 July 2020 / Finextra

FINCA Malawi Secures $1.5 Million Loan Facility From BIO

06 December 2019 / FINCA Impact Finance