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Our Approach
"Microfinance is attracting funds from ever increasing sources. How can we best make use of these resources to build local financial markets that work for poor people? Our work aims to ensure that funds for microfinance are directed to the right places, and in the most effective manner." Alexia Latortue, Team Leader, Donors and Investors

Funding Landscape
CGAP seeks to improve the availability and quality of information on funding flows to microfinance to promote greater social and financial transparency.
Flows and Trends

Publications
Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance
Maximizing Aid Effectiveness in Microfinance
Foreign Capital Investment in Microfinance
Aid Effectiveness in Microfinance
SmartAid for Microfinance Index 2009
National Microfinance Strategies
MFI Appraisal Guide
Country-Level Savings Assessment Tool

SmartAid for Microfinance: Interview with UNCDF’s David Morrison

Managers and technical staff from diverse institutions provide insights into how SmartAid is used as a tool for change.

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News and Events

Microfinance Investor Roundtable on Responsible Finance: The meeting held in Madrid on June 4, discussed latest trends in the SRI market and helped reach consensus on social performance reporting.

Who is Funding Microfinance? Results of the First Global Survey: To help make sense of the increasingly diverse and complex funding flows to microfinance and improve transparency, CGAP surveyed the microfinance portfolios of most significant donors and investors from April to August 2008. Global and Regional Snapshots that offer concise two-page presentations of the main survey results are now available.

Governments Give Credit: Recent headlines show an increasing trend of government funding for retail microfinance. Where, how and why are governments getting so involved? A new CGAP study examines this phenomenon in the latest Microfinance Gateway Highlight, Governments Give Credit.

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Good Practice Standards
CGAP uses its convening power to forge consensus on lessons learned and to develop good practice standards to move the industry forward.
Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance
The Client Protection Principles in Microfinance
MIV Survey 2008 - High growth and improving returns for microfinance funds

Operational Resources
CGAP develops a range of resources to assist donors and investors in applying good practice standards and enhancing their skills in access to finance.
Donor Briefs
Case Studies
Learning
Technical Guides

Funder Effectiveness
What does it take for donors and investors to fund microfinance effectively? CGAP strives to improve how funders support microfinance by focusing on the one thing they can change – their own way of working.
Aid Effectiveness: Microfinance as a Test Case
Microfinance Donor Peer Reviews
SmartAid for Microfinance Index
Country Reviews (CLEARs)
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