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Blog Series

Financial Services in Humanitarian Crises

This blog series explores the role that financial services can play for displaced people. Topics include the demand for financial services among FDPs, disaster insurance, and cash transfers. The millions of refugees and people forcibly displaced within their own countries are growing in number, placing huge burdens on their host communities and straining the humanitarian sector’s ability to respond. Building on CGAP’s publication, "The Role of Financial Services in Humanitarian Crises," this blog series explores the role that financial services can play in helping displaced people to overcome adversity and in enabling local economies to thrive. Topics to be covered include the demand for financial services among displaced people, disaster insurance for those who need it most, and cash transfers as a means of deepening financial inclusion during humanitarian crises.

The graduation into sustainable livelihoods approach
Blog
20 July 2017

How to Make the Graduation Approach Work for Refugees

The graduation approach is proven to lift families out of extreme poverty. Organizations on the frontier of humanitarian crises say it also works for refugees.
A refugee filling an application at the UNHCR registration center in Tripoli, Lebanon.
Blog
11 July 2017

Humanitarian Crises: Understanding Demand for Financial Services

Reaching low-income people with financial services during a crisis can help them overcome adversity – and it starts with understanding their needs.
Lolem, a widow and mother of four children, sells goods to Bamba Chakula recipients in a refugee camp in Kenya.
Blog
19 June 2017

Traders in Refugee Camps: Overlooked Opportunity in Bulk Payments

Lolem Boyo Emilat is a trader in Kenya’s Kalobeyei settlement, where mobile payments have transformed her small business. Could bringing mobile money to more traders like Lolem be an overlooked opportunity to advance financial inclusion?
Sabah and her young child in Al Minieh Informal Tented Settlement, North Lebanon.
Blog
12 June 2017

Can Emergency Cash Transfers Lead to Financial Inclusion?

From partnering with the right providers to removing policy constraints, there are several things development and humanitarian actors can do to forge a stronger link between humanitarian cash transfers and financial inclusion.
Flooding in Jakarta, Indonesia
Blog
06 June 2017

Disaster Risk Insurance to Promote Resilience

A growing body of evidence suggests that disaster insurance makes low-income people more resilient to floods, earthquakes, and other disasters. What challenges must be overcome to make disaster insurance more widely available?
Mother and child in flooded home
Blog
17 May 2017

Bridging the Humanitarian and Development Divide

Building financial inclusion goals into humanitarian programs could have long-term benefits for aid recipients.

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