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Blog Series

New Direction for Funders

The increasing role of the private sector in serving the poor and financially excluded as well as advances in technology and new business models serving the bottom of the pyramid are strengthening the potential for advances in financial inclusion. This blog series will feature global experts writing about how donors can play a catalytic role in advancing market development, especially in complex emerging economies, to enable financial inclusion for all.

Blog
20 February 2013

New Directions for Funders: Insights and Perspectives

How can funders balance the need for flexibility and accountability requirements with partners while ensuring effective outcomes? The answer lies in defining a monitoring and impact evaluation system that includes a "theory of change," quick feedback loops and reasonable assumptions.
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Blog
13 February 2013

Market Building Through Financial Sector Deepening In Africa

How do we support a market building approach in practice? The current advice is to either become a market facilitator or fund one. But what is a market facilitator; what do they do?
Blog
24 January 2013

USAID’s Approach To Developing Market Systems

Market systems are dynamic and changes stimulated by projects are rarely linear, making it difficult to match each activity with a single output and outcome.
Blog
11 January 2013

Solutions For Building More Effective Market Systems

Market systems are complex, and it's nearly impossible to predict their future outcomes. Can setting concrete goals be too limiting?
Blog
10 December 2012

Where The Wild Things Are: Measuring Market Development Progress

Being able to measure and demonstrate progress are critical issues as taxpayers and other funders of donors and DFIs require explanations and justifications of the use of their limited resources. A handful of donors are starting to experiment with different tools for measuring progress in agricultural and other non-financial markets. It is difficult work, especially when attempting to measure attributable and sustainable changes to a market system.
Blog
05 December 2012

Why And How Should We Measure Progress In Market Development?

With increasing scrutiny of aid budgets in donor countries, the pressures to prove impact of development programs are higher than ever before. It is relatively easy to assess impacts in a backward-looking fashion when there is already some record of progress, but measurement challenges are more daunting at the start of a program, when impact assessment needs to be forward-looking.
Blog
21 November 2012

Taking Market Development Approaches to Financial Access

How can aid agencies begin to ‘take’ market development thinking and practice into their efforts to enhance financial services for poor people? Drawing from wider experience, here are five basic starting points to consider.
Blog
13 November 2012

Expanding the Funding Horizon for Financial Access

There is broad recognition within the development community that donors have contributed significantly to building microfinance institutions that serve the poor around the world. But isn’t it time donors updated their investment portfolio to reflect new thinking and the new reality on the ground?

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