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Literature Review: Micro and Small Enterprise (MSEs’) Financing in Kenya, Uganda and India

The Literature Review delves into the landscape of women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in India, Kenya, and Uganda, summarizing the existing knowledge and gaps, with the aim of unlocking more capital and effectively meeting these enterprises' financial and non-financial needs.

Guide / Toolkit

Open Finance Self-Assessment Tool and Development Roadmap

This technical guide introduces the open finance self-assessment tool and development roadmap. It provides practical tools for policymakers to use to decide whether to implement an open finance regime to advance financial inclusion.

Slide Deck

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.

Paper

State of the Ugandan Refugee Finance Sector Report 2024

This report provides a detailed overview of the evolution and current state of the refugee finance sector in Uganda, key drivers, and levers as well as demand and supply-side constraints.

Paper

An Introduction to the Small Firm Diaries

The Small Firm Diaries is a global research initiative to better understand small firms in low-income neighborhoods of developing countries, especially the barriers to growth such firms face, through high frequency quantitative and qualitative data collection (“financial diaries”).

Slide Deck

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.

Case Study

Impact Investment in Climate-Resilient Drought Insurance

In Mali, where droughts affect 400,000 people annually and result in $9.5 million of lost crop earnings, OKO offers a lifeline by providing crop insurance to smallholder farmers.

Paper

Women in the Digital Economy: Challenges & Opportunities in the Shea Value Chain in Uganda

This publication highlights the untapped opportunity the shea value chain in Northern Uganda presents, with the potential to transform the livelihood of individuals, families and the entire region if harnessed well.

Paper

Assessing the State of Youth Financial Inclusion in Developing Contexts

This guide draws primarily from the lessons learned during the realization of a series of assessments on the state of youth financial inclusion in Uganda, Kenya, and Guatemala in 2019 and 2020.

Slide Deck

The Role of Mobile Money Providers and Their Agents in Protecting Customers’ Data​

This slide deck presents research findings identifying good practices of responsible agents in safeguarding their customers’ data and the role that providers can play in promoting these practices.