COVID-19

To help the microfinance and financial inclusion community stay up-to-date with the most recent developments related to coronavirus (COVID-19) and its impact on the sector, we encourage organizations to share their publications, events, news and other resources responding to the crisis.

Publishing your content on FinDev Gateway is free and does not require creating an account. Simply use the following submission forms to send us your content:

• Submit a publication >>
• Submit an event >>
• Submit a job >>
• Submit a news item >>

All content submitted to FinDev Gateway is subject to review by the FinDev editorial team before publishing. Read the Guidelines for Submitting Content. Our review process aims to ensure that all the content we publish on the site is relevant for our community and meets minimum quality standards. We will follow up with you if we have any questions about your submission. 

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• Share a Publication - FinDev accepts original work from both organizations and individuals in our publications library.
• Share an Event - Include your event on FinDev's extensive calendar of in-person and online trainings and events on microfinance and financial inclusion. If your event is recorded, follow up with us after the event to add the recording to the event page.
• Share News - You can share major news and announcements about your organization with the global microfinance and financial inclusion community.
• Share a Job - Reach the best candidates for your position by posting your organization's opportunities on FinDev Gateway's job listing page.
• Share a Dataset - We don't host data, but we maintain a listing of key datasets on financial inclusion and can work with you to feature your data on FinDev Gateway.

The content must relate to financial services for the poor, microfinance and financial inclusion. Before you submit any content, review our list of topics to make sure that your content is relevant and consult the FinDev Guidelines for Content Submission to ensure that your content meets the minimum quality standards. 

The FinDev editorial team reviews all submitted content before publishing. Our review process aims to ensure that all the content we publish on the site is relevant for our community and meets minimum quality standards. We will follow up with you if we have any questions about your submission. 

See FinDev Guidelines for Content Submission >>

If your submission meets our criteria, we will publish it within three to five business days. We usually edit the submission to standardize the formatting and to include all relevant information. You will receive an email notification once your content has been published.

If your submission does not meet our criteria and we are unable to publish it, we will respond to you by email to let you know and explain why. We are always happy to answer any questions, to help you to prepare your content for publication on the FinDev Gateway.

FinDev Gateway has created the COVID-19 Weekly Update series with the latest and most relevant knowledge resources for financial inclusion and microfinance, carefully curated by FinDev editors. The update includes a quick summary of what FinDev editors are reading followed by a listing of the most recent publications, blogs and events related to the ongoing crisis.

At the end of each week, we publish the update on FinDev Gateway and send out an email to our newsletter subscribers featuring the top coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past week.

• If you have content to share in our weekly update, please submit here or contact us directly.
• To receive the Weekly Updates, sign up here.

The FinDev Gateway Blog features interviews and blog posts from financial inclusion practitioners around the world who share lessons learned, new insights, and upcoming research from the field. Each year, over 70 blog contributors write for the FinDev Blog in English, Spanish, French, and Arabic.

FinDev Gateway welcomes original submissions of professionally written, engaging blog posts on topics of interest and relevance for a global audience of microfinance and financial inclusion professionals.

If you would like to write a blog post for FinDev Gateway, please submit a one-paragraph summary of your idea, and a member of the FinDev Gateway editorial team will get in touch with you. The Editorial Team reserves the right to select which blog post submissions will be published on the FinDev Gateway Blog, as well as to edit the submissions for clarity, tone and format. See blog submission guidelines >>