When a breadwinner dies without a plan, their assets frequently go unclaimed or are taken by unintended parties. Low-income families need to be empowered to safeguard the future for the generations that follow.

This slide deck interrogates the paradox of inclusion without resilience. It explores how digital credit products can be redesigned to support long-term financial well-being, especially for women, youth, farmers, and micro-entrepreneurs.

This working paper examines how inclusive finance can address today's evolving food security challenges by unlocking targeted investments in high-impact agricultural value chains that best promote nutritional, sustainability, and livelihood outcomes through agricultural technology (agtech) adoption.

These awards spotlight finfech startups delivering scalable solutions that improve people's financial lives - helping individuals manage daily needs, build resilience to shocks, plan for a secure future, and feel confident about their finances.

This brief demonstrates how developing and strengthening women-focused institutional structures, such as women-led cooperatives, can deliver resilience outcomes and position women as key stakeholders in building climate resilience in their communities.

This Focus Note offers six ‘big ideas’ for how funders of social protection programs can improve delivery of cash transfers in fragile contexts. Leveraging the financial sector for cash transfers improves outcomes for both programs and recipients.

While financial well-being is increasingly treated as the end goal of financial inclusion, we’re still not fully connecting the two concepts. This proposed framework for financial well-being addresses people’s material, psychological and social needs. 

The report uncovers how business outcomes for women are deeply tied to four interconnected factors: financial resilience, business management and growth, confidence and control, and quality of life.

This report presents findings from the baseline survey of the four-year Strive Women program which offers two main interventions to help women-led micro and small enterprises thrive.

This study aims to understand the relative impact of traditional financial inclusion and digital financial inclusion on perceived financial resilience using Global Findex data for the years 2014 and 2021.