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Sustainable Finance in the MENA Region
This study aimed to gauge MFIs' awareness on the topic of sustainable finance, measure their progress towards sustainability at the institutional and client level and determine the support needed to develop and implement environmental strategies.
The New Green Index 3.0: Mainstreaming Green Inclusive Finance
This publication documents the update process and presents the new Green Index 3.0, its standards and indicators as well as its scoring system and potential uses.
What Can Super Typhoon Rai Teach Us About Financial Inclusion?
This podcast episode features a Typhoon Rai survivor and the insurance provider that helped her rebuild her home. It explores the changing role of insurance and other financial services in climate change mitigation and adaptation.
Impact Finance Barometer 2022: How Resilient is Impact Finance to Exogenous Shocks?
This year's Impact Finance Barometer examines the resilience of the impact finance sector to exogenous shocks.
Leveraging Digital Financial Services to Advance Inclusive Green Finance Policies
This report shows how digital payment platforms, digital financial products, and enabling policies can make a difference in helping the most vulnerable populations adapt to and mitigate climate risk and environmental degradation.
Green Credit Guarantee Schemes for MSMEs
This special report elaborates on policy considerations for the implementation of a credit guarantee scheme that can be used to support green lending by financial institutions (such as commercial banks, credit cooperatives or microfinance institutions) to MSMEs.
Pacific Insurance and Climate Adaptation Programme: Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Strategy
This report describes PICAP’s approach towards achieving and mainstreaming gender equality and social inclusion to ensure that women and the most vulnerable are fully represented in climate disaster risk financing products (e.g., parametric insurance).
Towards an Inclusive Green Future: An Analysis of the Intersection Between Inclusive Green Finance and Gender Inclusive Finance
There is a pressing need to promote regulation and policies that strengthen the adaptive capacity and resilience of women to environmental change while empowering them to take part in mitigation efforts and environmental-related decision-making.
Making Climate Risk Microinsurance Work
This case study captures a Guatemalan insurance company's journey of offering climate risk microinsurance, including details on the delivery model employed, financial performance, and key learnings.
State of the Sector: Agri-Insurance for Smallholder Farmers
This report takes stock of the current state of agri-insurance for smallholder households, distilling what has changed in the sector since 2018 and proposing a set of priority areas to guide work over the next five years.