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The Annual Regional BDS Conference

On its 13th edition, The Annual Regional BDS Conference remains one of the largest learning platform to advance the practice of market system development and value chain facilitation within East ...

Accelerating Women's Digital Financial Inclusion

Digital technology is key to expanding access to financial services for women. Digital financial services can help improve women’s access to and control over income, savings, and assets. However, across ...

DFID’s Private Sector Development Programme in the DRC

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

DFID's £100 million PSD programme in the DRC seeks to improve the incomes of the poor in an extremely complex, conflict-affected environment. This learning brief summarises the initial design and ...

Navigating the evidence on savings-focused financial inclusion

As part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab, Itad and The SEEP Network developed a searchable, interactive evidence map that provides consolidated access to relevant evidence related to savings-focused ...

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.

Promoting rural income through support for markets in agriculture

Draft progress report and implementing plan for two programmes: Australia Indonesia Partnership for Promoting Rural Income through Support for Markets in Agriculture (AIP-PRISMA) Australia Indonesia Partnership for Strengthening Agricultural Finance ...

Commercial activities to expand financial services: women

Strengthening Agricultural Rural Finance in Rural Areas (SAFIRA) is an agricultural value chain finance (VCF) programme. It aims to increase on-farm productivity and reduce poverty by facilitating access to finance ...

ELAN RDC annual report 2017

Elan RDC is an MSD programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It aims to improve the positioning of poor people in markets - particularly women. It addresses constraints and ...

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 ...

Growth in Rural Economy & Agriculture in Tajikistan (GREAT)

Final evaluation report for Growth in Rural Economy & Agriculture in Tajikistan (GREAT). GREAT's objective was to increase inclusive rural economic growth in Tajikistan.

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 ...

Australia-Indonesia Partnership rural economic development programme

The Australia-Indonesia Partnership (AIP-Rural) aims to increase the agricultural incomes of at least 300,000 poor smallholder farmers by 30 per cent by stimulating greater private and public sector investments that ...

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.