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FinDev Blog

Boosting Women’s Climate Resilience: 3 Areas to Support FSPs

This blog explains and explores three key areas (1) data analysis and evidence, (2) capacity building, and (3) adequate funding, in which FSPs can be supported to provide solutions that strengthen low-income women’s climate adaptation and resilience through inclusive finance.

FinDev Interview

2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit Reflection

FinEquity Africa Facilitator Tariro Nyimo shares her insights and reflections on the 2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit which focused on gender equality and included impactful discussions, innovative solutions, and a collaborative energy that made the event a powerful platform for advancing 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 explores how FinEquity members’ strategies are responding to the cross-sectoral implications of climate risks, especially when it comes to looking at the way financial services can enable the adaption and resilience-building efforts of women and girls. It reveals several insights on relevant shifts in donor and NGO priorities that prioritize cross-sectoral strategic approaches.

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.  

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. 

Paper

Connecting the Remittance Ecosystem in the Northern Triangle

This white paper examines the barriers and opportunities to boosting digital remittances in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras.