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.

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”).

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.

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.

This research brief analyzes the potential for responsible digital wage payments in Kenya.

This study examines the the consequences of universal basic income in the context of a unique field experiment in rural Kenya.

To understand digital finance consumer risks in Senegal and in the West African Economic and Monetary Union, this slide deck shares an overview of the risks digital financial service users faced in the past year in Senegal.

This reading deck puts a spotlight on the specific data trails generated by digitally included yet poor people, the sources of these data trails, and variations of data trails across different segmentations.

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.

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.