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SG2018: The Power of Savings Groups

The Global Savings Groups Conference Series is a biennial conference that engages a large and diverse community of stakeholders. The event develops and promotes improved standards of practice, mobilises knowledge, ...

Quarterly Sector Reviews: putting adaptive management into practice

Insight into how Enterprise Partners learns from, and adapts, strategies and interventions.

Leveraging improved land security to improve access to credit

LIFT

Lessons learned from access to finance interventions within the Land Investment for Transformation Programme (LIFT) in Ethiopia. The case study looks at how the programme has enabled the successful design ...

The art of market facilitation

FSD Africa

When taking a market systems approach, development organisations such as those in the FSD network act as facilitators of market development—external change agents whose role is to develop actors in ...

Financing the frontier: Inclusive financial sector development in fragility-affected states in Africa

FSD Africa, Mercy Corpd

This think piece is a response to the recognition that inclusive financial market development in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) faces new challenges. It argues that there is a triple justification for ...

Measuring market development

CGAP

How do funders of financial inclusion programmes know if, and how, development programmes are making a difference? Despite significant funding for financial inclusion efforts worldwide, approximately two billion adults remain ...

FSD Kenya: Ten years of a market systems approach in the Kenyan finance market

Springfield Centre

Over the past ten years Kenya has seen major progress in financial inclusion. Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Kenya contracted The Springfield Centre to prepare this case study about the role ...

Market facilitation to advance financial inclusion

CGAP

CGAP’s guidelines for funders encourage funders to adopt a systemic approach in their financial inclusion programs. Systemic approaches have been applied in various sectors, notably agriculture and enterprise development, for ...

Microlinks Seminar - Paying for results: a new approach to mobilizing finance for development

Register here What does a smallholder farmer looking to buy a $750 walking tractor and a multinational company looking to build a $500 million power generation plant in Africa share ...

Supporting inclusive finance – new guidelines for funders

Funders need to think of their role not as providers of missing services in the market but rather as facilitators, suggests new guidelines aimed at funders of financial inclusion.

Rethinking financial inclusion: smart design for policy and practice

This one week executive education programme at Harvard Kennedy School will explore frontier issues in finance for the poor through a "smart design" framework for financial inclusion products and policies. ...

Towards impact-oriented measurement systems for the FSD Network

FSD Africa

This report sets out an approach for measuring the impact of financial sector deepening (FSD) programmes. The note has been primarily prepared for the benefit of FSD programme directors and ...

Measuring systemic change: GEMS1 in Nigeria

The Donor Committee on Enterprise Development

Assessing progress in making changes systemic and measuring the results of those systemic changes can be challenging. This case study describes how the GEMS1 programme assessed systemic changes and the ...

PRIME financial services learning brief

Mercy Corps

This learning brief captures Mercy Corps' emerging best practices under PRIME in expanding financial access in Ethiopia's pastoralist areas. Over the past decade, Ethiopia has exhibited strong economic growth - ...

Cracking the Nut conference report

Connexus Corporation

Lessons from the 2015 Cracking the Nut Conference: Expanding Rural and Agricultural Markets Amid Climate Change. Cracking the Nut 2015 facilitated an important dialogue on the latest practices in climate-smart ...

Inclusive Finance India Summit

The Inclusive Finance India Summit is a global flagship initiative of ACCESS Development Services. The objective of the Summit is to inform and influence the pro-poor policy framework and strengthen ...

Revitalising agricultural/pastoral incomes and new markets

Mercy Corps and United States Agency for International Development (USAID)

This report offers recommendations and main lessons in translating flexible humanitarian funding opportunities into effective practice as an entry point for longer-term resiliency programming in areas exposed to recurrent shocks. ...

Improving access to finance for SMEs in the road sector

Credit guarantee funds are a tried-and-tested instrument to improve access to finance. This article aims to share experience from the CrossRoads Guarantee Fund in Uganda. The Fund was established in ...

What works for market development: a review of the evidence

Sida

The review seeks to provide evidence on what works for market development and the results frameworks and results chains, by focusing on private sector development (PSD), financial sector development (FSD) ...