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Understanding Users’ Experience With Digital Lending Applications in India
This slide deck shares the results of a survey conducted by MSC and FACE to analyze user knowledge and behavior regarding digital lending applications (DLAs) and digital loans.
Empowering Rural Women in Mali Through Self-Help Groups
This study highlights the approach used to enable women to access credit and develop income-generating activities that contribute to their empowerment and give them access to microcredit.
Financial Institutions' Portfolio Quality, Growth and Financial Performance After COVID-19
The information in this detailed analysis showcases the remarkable resilience of the microfinance sector across multiple regions.
Understanding Customers in Environments of Severe Climate-Related Weather Events
This demand side study in Nigeria and Bangladesh aims to provide firsthand information about how vulnerable people build and lose resilience, as well as a close view of how they gather and spend funds to cope with a climate crisis.
Increasing Access to Formal Financial Services
This learning brief describes three models that USAID-funded Feed the Future Rural Resilience Activity utilized to provide formal financial services, in particular credit and savings, to previously excluded populations in Northeast Nigeria.
The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of the Dominican Republic
This case study offers an overview of the current state of women’s financial inclusion in the Dominican Republic.
Solidarity in Saving: Listening to Women's Needs During Crises
Based on 3,822 (majority women) VSLA member interviews, this brief represents quantitative data from Burundi, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ethiopia, Mali, Niger, and Vietnam.
The Role Regulators Play in Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap: A Case Study of Peru
This case study offers an overview of the current state of women's financial inclusion in Peru.
The Six Village Story – India: An Assessment of the Real Gap in Financial Inclusion
This study intends to unpack the on-ground status of financial inclusion in six villages in India.
Engaging Financial Services Providers in the Context of G2P Choice
This deck aims to help implementers of G2P choice programs in better reaching recipients and achieving program objectives.