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FinDev Blog

Restarting After the Storm: Building Climate Resilience for Small Businesses in Ghana

Advans Ghana shares how it is developing targeted responses for clients affected by floods and fires, with recovery lending and client-centered support.

FinEquity Blog

Financing Her Health: How Maternity Wallets and Medical Loans Can Transform Maternal Care

Affordable health finance products boost resilience for urban slum dwellers in India.

FinDev Blog

Planning for the Disasters to Come: How Climate Risk Insurance Rewrites the Rules of Recovery

Financial tools including insurance and recovery lending are key for improving microfinance clients’ resilience.

FinDev Blog

Six Steps to Unlock Formal Credit Through VSLAs

Women-centered design and a strong coalition of partners are expanding business growth opportunities for VSLA members through a data-driven approach to credit assessment.

FinDev Blog

Using AI to Bring Social Capital Into Credit Decisions

Could the data representing a person’s social life be analyzed by AI to determine creditworthiness?

FinEquity Blog

Boosting Women’s Climate Resilience: Three Areas to Support FSPs

This blog explores three key ways FSPs can be supported to offer inclusive financial solutions that boost low-income women’s climate adaptation and resilience—through better data use, stronger institutional capacity, and increased funding.

FinEquity Blog

Why Financial Inclusion Is the Cornerstone of Climate Resilience

This blog explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.

FinDev Blog

Magnifying the Power of Women’s Savings Groups

VisionFund has been exploring how formal loans to savings groups can help overcome capital constraints and improve members’ resilience.

FinDev Interview

How Do We Reach 80 Million Women and Increase Their Incomes by 30%?

Greta Bull of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares their latest thinking on achieving impact and building an inclusive credit ecosystem.

Paper

Designing Credit Products to Support Women’s Economic Activity: Synthesis of Recent Literature

This evidence synthesis examines a range of studies published to examine the impact of financial innovations that have addressed barriers women face in accessing and using credit for productive purposes.