Feasibility study to support SDC Cooperation Office (SCO) South Caucasus in preparation of an Access to Finance (A2F) program SCO South Caucasus is looking for a consultant to be mandated ...
Program / Department Summary: Mercy Corps alleviates poverty, suffering, and oppression and works to build secure, productive, and just communities in over 40 countries around the world. Our Program Department ...
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 ...
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 ...
Vacancy: Zambian Financial Sector Deepening Limited (FSDZ) FSDZ is a financial sector development organisation working with the public and private sector to support development of the Zambian financial sector to ...
The Senior Evidence & Learning Advisor for Economic Development is primarily responsible for leading the evidence building strategy and plan for World Vision Australia's work in economic development. This will ...
Mercy Corps has been awarded a DFID-funded Contract under the Peace and Development Program,Market Opportunities for people of the Somali Region of Ethiopia (MORE). MORE has been designed with an ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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. ...
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 ...
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 - ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
This paper presents a market development approach to supporting the development of financial markets characterised by multi-pronged donor interventions that are coordinated, catalytic and responsive to the market. It also ...
Five years after the term ‘impact investing’ was coined, Omidyar Network has developed a series of six articles that highlight key issues and opportunities for the industry. In this discussion ...