CGAP Webinar Takes a Fresh Look at the Evidence on Microfinance
CGAP will host a webinar on 24 July on its new Focus Note, Opening the Black Box on the Impact of Inclusive Credit, featuring Sophie Sirtaine, Jemimah Njuki, and Alex Counts. The discussion will look beyond whether microfinance "works" or "does not work" to explore when credit benefits borrowers, under what conditions, and what the evidence shows about meaningful development impact.
Financial Services as Infrastructure for Women’s Empowerment and Carbon Integrity
AI-Powered Suptech for Financial Inclusion: How Emerging Market Authorities Can Unlock Its Potential
AI-powered SupTech offers financial sector authorities in emerging markets and developing economies a timely opportunity to strengthen supervision, improve efficiency, and advance financial inclusion. This brief explores how authorities can adopt these tools responsibly through five priority recommendations.
Unlocking Private Investment in Last-Mile Access via Shared Agent Networks: A Funder's Guide
This deck makes the case for shared agent networks as essential infrastructure, outlines how patient, collaborative investment can build last-mile financial access that sustains itself, and provides a financial modeling tool to help understand the trade-offs in funder support levels.
Stablecoins in Humanitarian Cash Transfers
This deck assesses how stablecoins can help development funders improve cross-border transfers and last-mile delivery, offering practical guidance for humanitarian organizations and social protection actors navigating the realities of humanitarian payment systems.
Contingent Lines of Credit (CLOC): A Liquidity Tool for Customer Climate Resilience
This reading deck explores how climate Contingent Lines of Credit (CLOCs) work, what design choices matter, and how they can complement savings, insurance, and other resilience tools.
Opening the Black Box on the Impact of Inclusive Credit
Applications Open for Financial Literacy Sprint
Sponsored by the U.S. G20 Presidency, CGAP has launched a Financial Literacy Solutions Sprint to identify the most promising technology-enabled financial literacy solutions and connect them with the partnerships and pathways needed to reach millions of people.