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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.
A Technical Guide to Unlock Agent Networks at the Last Mile
This guide outlines five key actions for digital financial service providers, regulators, and funders to expand rural Cash-In and Cash-Out agent networks based on CGAP's global experience.
Women Agents for Financial Inclusion: Exploring the Benefits, Constraints, and Potential Solutions
This working paper explores the benefits of having more women agents, the challenges they face, and potential solutions to promote their participation in the DFS ecosystem.
Driving Financial Resilience Through Formal Savings Among the Low-Income Population
Based on customer research in Cote d’Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, and Uganda, this paper provides a synthesis of findings that help understand to what extent savings allowed customers to increase their financial resilience.
Mobile Money Agents: Sustainability in the Digital Era - Findings From Mozambique
This report looks at the pressing challenges affecting Mozambican mobile money agents to inform the players in the ecosystem and create sustainable strategies to improve agent networks.
Social and Solidarity Economy: Social Innovation Catalyst in Africa?
The report highlights internal and external factors impacting social and solidarity economy organizations in their social innovation process and presents a set of policy recommendations to unlock their potential.
Policy Framework on MSME Data Collection: A Guide for Gender Inclusive Finance
This Framework provides data collection guidance for MSME and gender inclusive finance, defines an extended set of MSME finance indicators, and shares best practices to advance financial inclusion for MSMEs.
A Case Study on Connecting With Low-income Customers Through Digitalisation
This case study draws upon management consulting literature to assess digitalization strategies and evaluates three leading financial organizations in Morocco, Kenya and Ghana against this framework.
Preserving Liquidity: Policymaker Responses to COVID-19 and the Impact on Low-Income Customers
An Opportunity for the Banking Sector to Work With Informal Savings Groups in Morocco
The objective of the research is to conduct a qualitative and quantitative study to identify opportunities related to the launch of a digital tontine offer.