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Sabaa Notta

Sabaa Notta is a consultant at the World Bank Group. Her work focuses on climate resilience and adaptation, microfinance, inclusive finance in fragile contexts, finance for forcibly displaced populations, and inclusive fintech. Sabaa has experience working in various regions, namely the Middle East North Africa (MENA) and East Africa. She holds a master's in public administration, development practice from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs in New York City and a bachelor's in business administration from York University's Schulich School of Business in Toronto.

By Sabaa Notta

Research

Resilience for All: Why Inclusive Finance Can't Wait

The world faces urgent challenges as risks intensify and interconnect, amplifying vulnerabilities, especially for low-income populations and small and medium enterprises (MSEs). If left unaddressed, these vulnerabilities can create ripple effects with national, regional, and global consequences. This paper highlights the importance of inclusive finance as an indispensable component of resilience responses, and calls on everyone working on increasing resilience to leverage inclusive finance to enhance the reach, speed, and impact of their work.
Blog

Is Climate Change Undermining Financial Inclusion? Early Evidence Says Yes

Early evidence from Pakistan confirms the need to shore up the financial institutions that serve vulnerable populations facing climate impacts, as climate risk threatens to undermine global progress on financial inclusion.
Research

Bolstering Women’s Climate Resilience and Adaptation through Financial Services

Financial services help people to reduce the impact of and to adapt to climate-related risks. Yet women have less access to such tools. This working paper illustrates how women are differently impacted by climate change and how financial services can play a better role in strengthening their autonomous adaptive capacities to climate change.
Blog

Climate Resilience Through Financial Services: Farzana’s Story

Women, especially those in low-income countries, are faced with higher risk, greater vulnerability, and fewer tools to cope with the impacts of climate change. Financial services can empower women to manage climate risks and build resilience.
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State of the Climate-Responsive Financial Product Landscape

EMDEs are hit hardest by climate-related disasters and environmental impacts and will need a variety of financial services to adapt and grow more resilient to climate change. Are they getting them? Our product scan provides preliminary insights.