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Exploring the Nature and Prevalence of Financial Abuse Among Microfinance Customers in Benin

Cerise+SPTF and Grameen Foundation collaborated on research to test a survey instrument designed to measure the nature and prevalence of financial abuse.

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Playbook: The Role of Financial Institutions in Responding to Domestic Financial Abuse

This playbook presents a strategic framework for FIs to support victim-survivors through four key workflows: fostering a supportive internal culture, preparing employees to recognize and respond to abuse, educating and supporting clients, and enhancing protective product features and partnerships.

News

Grameen Foundation Launches Initiative to End Financial Abuse: Program SAFE

This comprehensive initiative aims to raise awareness, provide support services, and build a global coalition to safeguard against financial abuse in all its forms. 

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Business Correspondent Network Managers Experiment And Demonstrating Scale: Endline Report

This study shares findings from three pilots, in collaboration with six partners, conducted as part of the action research agenda to experiment with product diversification, capacity building, and customer empowerment.

News

Grameen Foundation Names Zubaida Bai President and CEO

Before joining Grameen Foundation, she served as the managing director of CARE Social Ventures.

External Webinar

Two for One: Promoting Women's Financial Inclusion Through Mobile Money Enterprises

This virtual event (recording) highlights the research, project objectives, and early lessons learned regarding the recruitment of women to become mobile money agents in Northern Ghana.

News

Grameen Foundation Grants a First Loan to the Microfinance Institution Baobab in Burkina Faso

Through its subsidiaries, Baobab provides financial services to half a million microentrepreneurs and small businesses, thus allowing access to financing to people who are not currently supported by traditional banks.

News

Grameen Foundation, J.P. Morgan Deliver COVID-19 Relief in the Philippines

Supported by J.P. Morgan, the program will provide immediate relief and longer-term recovery support to 3,500 women entrepreneurs running microenterprises.

Paper

Reducing Incidence of Child Labor and Harmful Conditions of Work in Economic Strengthening Initiatives (RICHES)

Key policy and strategy recommendations that women’s economic empowerment actors, such as financial service providers and women’s business support organizations, can implement at the organizational- and client-level.