At the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference’s “Market System Facilitators Engaging with Corporates” workshop, the three speakers—Alison Griffith of Practical Action, Stephanie Daniels of Sustainable Food Labs, and myself (CARE)—asked the audience these three questions:
• What capacity do you need in your organization to engage the private sector effectively?
• What risks do you see in private … Read More >
In the past year, situations such as political uprisings, borrower defaults and over-indebtedness, MFI mismanagement, and usury, among other things, have challenged the microfinance industry to expand to new frontiers in defining its role in access to finance and economic development. At the 2011 SEEP Annual Conference, workshops in the Frontiers in Financial Services track … Read More >
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What do we do with this data? How do you get the right data to the right people?
The last question we want to look at (and the one raised in our prior post) is how financial inclusion data can be used in practice. The first step here is … Read More >
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When MIX took on the project to create the map of financial inclusion in Africa, the first question we asked ourselves was, “Where are we going to get this information?” We know that data is not always easy to come by, especially within the microfinance world. … Read More >
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What do we need to know about financial inclusion in Africa?
Researchers sometimes speak about ‘the streetlight effect.’ There are different versions of this story, but most follow along these lines:
A policeman sees a man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he has lost. … Read More >
(This is the third part of a three-part blog on the Vulnerable Populations track. Read about the Bermuda Triangle of economic empowerment in the first part here and more about the workshops in the second part here.)
The presentations in the workshop entitled “Integrating Microfinance and Livelihoods: Plus Models that Make Business Sense” and the questions they raised … Read More >
