Investing for Financial Inclusion: Four Enablers for Outcomes Measurement and Management
Impact investors are shifting towards outcomes-focused impact measurement and management (IMM) to enhance transparency and mitigate risks. This approach prioritizes measuring actual development and intermediate outcomes, like women's economic empowerment, and integrates this data into decision-making. The paper outlines key enablers to advance outcomes-focused IMM within financial inclusion investments.
Global Partnerships Case Study: Measuring and Managing Financial Inclusion Outcomes
This case study explores how Global Partnerships integrates outcomes data into investment decisions, highlighting key enablers for success, including leadership support, impact-driven strategy, and collaborative partnerships with financial service providers.
The Next Chapter for Women’s Financial Inclusion: Moving Toward a Visible Step-Change
This gender conceptual framework aims to offer a new vision of women's financial inclusion through a whole-of-market approach, requiring commitment from both sectors to drive impactful change.
Young Women's Financial Inclusion: What Works
This paper presents lessons learned from initiatives that aim to increase financial inclusion among low-income young women, ages 15–24, in low- and middle-income countries.
Inclusive Fintech: How Startups Are Bridging the Finance Gap for Microenterprises
This focus note features a range of case studies based on CGAP's research and highlights the potential and actual impacts of microenterprise fintech models.
Responsible Digital Finance Ecosystem (RDFE) : A Conceptual Framework
This RDFE conceptual framework seeks to encourage financial sector authorities, and other key ecosystem actors, to boost financial consumer protection in the digital era with a holistic vision of the ecosystem.
Empowering Small Giants: Inclusive Embedded Finance for Micro-Retailers
This report outlines various business models that incorporate last-mile retailers into digital ordering platforms, offering them convenience, transparency, and a wide range of products.
Financial Inclusion and Disruptive Innovation: Regulatory Implications
8 Billion Reasons: Inclusive Finance as a Catalyst for Climate Action
This paper is a call to action for climate practitioners and financial services stakeholders from across public, private, and philanthropic sectors to work together to unlock the full potential of financial inclusion for scaling grassroots climate action.
The Role of Data in Inclusive Insurance
This paper identifies five ways in which data trails are being leveraged by private sector actors, including insurance carriers and technology providers, to offer “inclusive insurance” for low-income and other excluded segments, such as rural small-holder farmers and gig workers.