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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.
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.
Digital Cash Transfers for Emergency Response: Lessons From Cameroon
This research shares findings from an evaluation in 2021 documenting lessons learned from digital government-to-people (G2P) payments to eighty thousand beneficiaries, mostly women, in Cameroon.
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.
Feasibility Study on Climate Risk Insurance in Malawi
This study examines the growing impact of climate induced disaster on the agriculture sector in Malawi and explores financial gaps that could feasibly be filled through climate risk insurance solutions.
Feasibility Study on Climate Risk Insurance in Niger
This study examines the growing impact of climate induced disaster on the agriculture sector in Niger and explores financial gaps that could feasibly be filled through climate risk insurance solutions.
Feasibility Study on Climate Risk Insurance in Senegal
This study examines the growing impact of climate induced disasters on the agriculture sector in Senegal and explores financial gaps that could feasibly be filled through climate risk insurance solutions.
Feasibility Study on Climate Risk Insurance in Sierra Leone
This study examines the growing impact of climate induced disaster on the agriculture sector in Sierra Leone and explores financial gaps that could feasibly be filled through climate risk insurance solutions.
Ghana Climate Risk Assessment for Subnational Adaptation
This study seeks to understand exactly what risks are most likely to threaten individual districts in Ghana, and to support the future planning of climate adaptation activities.
How and Why We Finance SMEs
This paper tells the story of BII’s efforts to close the SME financing gap, tries to explain why the gap exists, and examines what the evidence has to say about the development impact of improving access to finance for SMEs.