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The story of MSD: achieving sustainable development at scale

BEAM Exchange

The purpose of this publication is to communicate the results, versatility and implications of the MSD approach to a wide audience with a minimum of jargon. Practical experience in the ...

Keeping firms and supply chains afloat in the age of COVID-19

How are firms and their supply chains evolving during the COVID-19 pandemic? Can certain interventions help them stay afloat? The pandemic is disrupting financial systems that until recently, were expanding ...

COVID-19 impact studies

Innovision Consulting

Innovision Consulting is undertaking primary research in Bangladesh on low-income occupational groups to assess the impact of COVID 19 on their livelihoods. The data and analysis for each occupational group ...

Exploring USAID’s New Finance Wiki

Join the USAID Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Team and partner Deloitte for an interactive session exploring the new Finance Wiki on Marketlinks. Presenters will share why the Wiki was developed, ...

Eight lessons on making digital financial inclusion work for women in MENA

Tackling the financial inclusion gender gap to improve women's financial independence and employment prospects.

Does Market Systems Development work for women's financial empowerment?

Working in Jordan and Egypt, the Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund (AWEF) stimulates increased women’s economic empowerment through a market systems approach. As AWEF comes to an end in April 2020, ...

Making digital finance work for women in the MENA region

AWEF

Despite progress over the past few years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region still has the largest gender gap in terms of women’s economic participation in the world. ...

Drivers and barriers of regulatory change processes in digital finance: lessons for funders

The first of two webinars looking at how funders can support regulatory change processes in a more systemic way. Speakers: Barbara Scola, CGAP / Patrick Meagher, CGAP / Ahmed Dermish, ...

Systems change: an emerging practice in impact investing

Enclude

Impact investors are increasingly engaging in 'systems practice' to better understand the underlying causes to social and environmental problems and to identify high leverage solutions to advance positive systems change. ...

Gender Equality and Social Inclusion (GESI) mainstreaming in DFID’s PSD programme in the DRC

Decision Support Unit

DFID's DRC programme has sought to mainstream GESI throughout its programmes. It used programme logframes to incentivise focus on GESI and each project adopted different approaches to mainstreaming and measuring ...

Changing aid industry norms

ELAN RDC

With crises plaguing the DRC for the last 25 years, the aid industry has become a key player in the Congolese economy. Relief and recovery efforts have become some of ...

Increasing productivity through an innovative, individual-based agricultural loan

LIFT

Access to finance allows smallholder farmers to purchase improved inputs and services, giving them the chance to graduate from subsistence farming and move up the productivity chain. The LIFT programme ...

Investment Mobilization Platform - a new approach to mobilizing finance for development

Financing for capital investment is critical to accomplishing development objectives – whether in health, agriculture, WASH, etc. But facilitating the flow of such financing has long been a development challenge. ...

Fintech for women: scaling the financial inclusion pyramid in Egypt

Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund's (AWEF) study in Egypt on leveraging 'Fintech' innovations to create meaningful financial solutions for low-income people, especially poor or disadvantaged women.

Private Sector Development in fragile and conflict-affected states

Decision Support Unit (DSU)

This learning brief presents some of the key lessons learned in delivering DFID’s Private Sector Developemnt (PSD) programme in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). It draws on case studies ...

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 ...

Propcom Mai-karfi: lessons learned, 2012–2017

Propcom Mai-karfi

By the end of its initial six-year term 2012–2017, Propcom Mai-karfi had raised the incomes of 665,000 poor rural people across northern Nigeria. This was achieved by engaging with private-sector ...