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Case Study

Making Financial Services Accessible to Low-Income Populations Through Financial Education and Social Empowerment

This study illustrates how digitalization can improve financial inclusion, customer experience, and operational efficiency for low-income populations and financial institutions.

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.

Paper

Indigenous Financial Service Research in Kenya, Ghana, and Togo

MSC conducted qualitative research in Kenya, Ghana and Togo and found that Indigenous Financial Services (IFS), such as rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCAs), informal moneylenders and burial societies play a critical role in driving access to finance for micro and small enterprises (MSEs).

Slide Deck

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.

Paper

Microfinance Clients Facing the COVID-19 Crisis: From Findings to Action for MFIs

This publication presents the main results of MFI client surveys in seven countries (Bhutan, Myanmar, Rwanda, Senegal, Togo, Cape Verde and El Salvador), as well as the concrete measures taken by MFIs to meet the needs expressed by their clients.

Case Study

NBC Mozambique

This Case Brief showcases the partnership between International Labour Organization - Social Finance and NBC Mozambique through which partnerships  were identified and secured to distribute microinsurance in the country.

Paper

Deconstructing the Gender Gap in Rural Financial Inclusion

The cases of Mozambique and Tanzania

Paper

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020

Findings based on surveys in 15 low- and middle-income countries
Paper

Executive Summary – CGAP National Surveys of Smallholder Households

Key data from six surveys compiled in a series of easy-to-reference charts and tables
Paper

Female Smallholders in the Financial Inclusion Agenda

Exploring the gender gap through data from smallholder surveys in Tanzania and Mozambique