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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

How AI and Human-Centered Design Can Transform Financial Inclusion in Colombia

A recent pilot used machine learning and digital tools to provide personalized financial recommendations for rural users, with promising results.

FinDev 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.

FinDev Interview

2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit Reflection

FinEquity Africa Facilitator Tariro Nyimo reflects on the 2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit, which spotlighted gender equality, innovative solutions, and vibrant collaboration to drive women’s economic empowerment through financial inclusion in Africa.

FinDev Blog

Breaking Silos for Women's Climate Resilience Through Financial Services: What’s the FinEquity Community of Practice up to?

This blog highlights how FinEquity members are bridging sectors to boost women’s climate resilience through financial services that support adaptation and long-term recovery.

FinDev Blog

Connecting Venezuelan Migrants With the Financial System in Colombia

The Banca de las Oportunidades project, “El Parche Financiero” (“the Financial Patch”), aims to promote financial inclusion for the 100,000 Venezuelan migrants in the country.

FinDev Guide

Segmentation of Women-Led Nano and Micro-enterprises: A Guide to Knowledge Resources

This guide shares resources from an in-depth literature review focused on women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in three countries: India, Kenya, and Uganda.

Paper

The Microenterprise Mela - Size & Diversity of the Microenterprise Sector in India

This document combines data from the Annual Survey of Unincorporated Sector Enterprises with M-CRIL’s 40+ years of experience studying every aspect of microenterprises in India and in a dozen other countries in Asia as well as to some extent in Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Ghana, South Africa and other countries.

FinDev Blog

Is There a “Steel Bullet” for Helping Businesses Grow?

Financial diaries which provide microentrepreneurs with tailored business reports are helping them to grow their businesses, showing the power of access to data.

FinDev Blog

Gender Responsive Approaches to Building Women’s Climate Resilience in Africa

Reflections on the climate session held in the FinEquity Africa Annual Convening 2024 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia, exploring challenges and proposing what will be required for approaches with effective design and delivery of climate-smart financial solutions that will help women build resilience.