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Increasing Financial Inclusion in Egypt’s Garment Sector through Responsible Wage Digitalization: Benefits for Workers and Business

This report sets out the results from supporting nine factories in five governorates in Egypt with over 24,000 workers with wage digitalization and enabling workers to access, use and benefit from their accounts.

RISE, Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
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Gender-Smart Investing in MENA

The goal of this Brief is to catalyze discussion and action across gender-smart investing practitioners, Egyptian firms and impact investors.

Chloé Gueguen, Salma Hassanein, Minoush Abdel-Meguid, DAI
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Employment Effects in Impact Investments: Key Insights Emerging Across Studies in Tanzania and in Zimbabwe

The analysis concludes that the investments as part of the joint ILO-EU STRENGHTEN Project triggered an increase in employment numbers along with improved skills of the labor force, management systems of the investee companies, and labor practices.

Maikel Lieuw-Kie-Song, Patricia Richter, Monica Marino, Fernando Messineo Libano, International Labour Organization - Social Finance
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Measuring Progress: Financial Inclusion in Selected SADC Countries

Working methodology in measuring and evaluating the impact of national financial inclusion strategies

Damola Owolade, FinMark Trust, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
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Digitizing for Inclusion

Insights from wage digitization in the garment sector

BSR (Business for Social Responsibility)
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Preserving Liquidity: Policymaker Responses to COVID-19 and the Impact on Low-Income Customers

Initial lessons learned and suggestions for dealing with the current and future crises
Loretta Michaels, Hema Bansal, Mayada El-Zoghbi, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion
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Experiences in Gender-Sensitive Solutions to Collateral Constraints

How the use of non-conventional collateral can contribute to improved access to affordable credit
Allison Nafziger, MEDA
Case Study

A Client Needs-Centred Approach to Financial Inclusion Measurement

Understanding how and why customers use different types of financial services
Isabelle Carboni, Christine Hougaard, Leonard Makuvaza, Wicus Coetzee, Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), insight to impact (i2i)
Case Study

A Client Needs-Centered Approach to Financial Inclusion Measurement

Innovative financial inclusion data framework focused on customers financial needs
Isabelle Carboni, Christine Hougaard, Leonard Makuvaza, Wicus Coetzee, Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)
Case Study

Integrating Gender and Women's Financial Inclusion Into the Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) Framework

Insights on a number of regulatory reforms to boost women’s financial inclusion
Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)