Making Clean Cooking Affordable
Following the FinDev Gateway webinar on financing for clean cooking, GLPGP discusses how innovative consumer finance approaches can help facilitate access to clean cooking in developing countries.
Fintech As a Pathway to Financial Inclusion? The Case of China
The opportunities and risks of fintech are front of mind for financial sector policymakers these days, and many are looking to China for inspiration and guidance. What can we learn from the Chinese experience?
Who Sends Money to Whom? Gendered Flows of Mobile Money in Kenya
An anthropological approach to digital finance using social network analysis
People on the Move: Islamic Finance for Pastoralists in the Horn of Africa
Building Resilience in Real Time
Organizations implementing the graduation approach need tools to manage their different program components effectively. Mobile and cloud technology are helping them to support poor women on their path out of poverty.
Does Informal Finance Still Matter?
Informal Savings Mechanisms (ISMs) have long been important to many people’s day-to-day money management across Africa. But as formal financial services become much more prevalent in the region, what will happen to these ISMs? Will they fall by the wayside as the digital revolution takes over?
Alternative Delivery Channels Can Help Financial Service Providers and Customers Navigate the Pandemic
How cashless transactions in Sub-Saharan Africa can be improved and expanded
Do Flexible Loans Improve Access to Agricultural Credit?
Results from a recent survey in Kenya question the impact of flexible loan terms on how much credit smallholder farmers take up. But the issue may be that loans were still not flexible enough.
Top Five Digital Financial Service Features That Impact Women’s Access and Use
Research in Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire provides guidance for DFS providers and regulators on how to help ensure that digital tools make women more - not less - financially included.
COVID-19 Gendered Impacts on Livelihoods in Africa: A new Sex Disaggregated Data Set for SSA
Members of FinMark Trust present the methodology behind their COVID-19 tracker and share initial insights on the impact of COVID-19 on women’s resilience and economic participation in selected sub-Saharan African countries.