Events

Is the Microfinance Debate Missing the Point?

CGAP's new research shows that inclusive credit is not a panacea, but it can have meaningful impact when it is well designed, responsibly delivered, suited to client needs, and supported by the right market and policy conditions. In this webinar, CGAP CEO Sophie Sirtaine shared key findings from the paper, followed by a conversation with Alex Counts and Jemimah Njuki, and Sophie.

Connecting the Layers: Risk Transfer Solutions from Households to Sovereign Resilience

This CGAP and UNCDF webinar explored how risk transfer can evolve from isolated interventions into connected systems that link household-level insurance with sovereign risk financing.

Contingent Lines of Credit: Helping Financial Institutions Stay with Clients Through Climate Shocks

This webinar is designed to provide practitioners across the inclusive finance and climate resilience ecosystem, including FSPs, investors, DFIs, donors, foundations and ecosystem support organizations, with a better understanding of what CLOCs are, how they work, and their potential to support inclusive FSPs in bolstering their own climate resilience, and that of their clients.

Inclusive Insurance: Building Resilience, Navigating Risks, and Powering Development

This webinar spotlighted the inclusive insurance industry’s distinctive strengths in building resilience, managing risks, and powering development across the four dimensions of sustainable development: economic prosperity, social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and peace and good governance.

CG Annual Meeting 2026

On May 27–28, 2026, CGAP held its 2026 Council of Governors meeting in Paris, France, under the theme "Inclusive Finance for Impact: Building Financial Resilience and Opportunity.

Open Finance Oversight and Supervision: Emerging Practices and Early Lessons

This webinar covered the core supervisory priorities financial service authorities should focus on in the early years of implementation and emerging practices in open finance supervision and oversight.

Regulating Innovation: What Does It Take?

This webinar focused on the practical implementation of vision-guided regulation by financial sector regulators. Featuring country examples, policy tips, and guidance, the webinar will go beyond the high-level concepts in the paper to their application.

Beyond Risk Perception: How Financial Institutions Can Profitably Serve Rural Women Facing Climate Stress

This webinar brought together financial service providers, market facilitators, and sector experts to explore how financial institutions can design agri-finance products that are both commercially viable and genuinely responsive to the realities rural women face.

Investing in Women Smallholder Farmers: Building Climate Resilience Through Women’s Groups

CGAP co-hosted this webinar with IFAD to help the agricultural and financial services community understand the pivotal role women play in climate-exposed agrifood systems, explore how women-led groups strengthen livelihoods and rural enterprises, and highlight strategies to unlock women’s potential as agents of climate adaptation and mitigation.

From Hype to Impact: What Stablecoins Mean for Financial Inclusion (Part 2)

This webinar is the second part of the two-part series focused on stablecoins. In this webinar, we dove deeper into stablecoin adoption in emerging markets and developing economies and the policy implications.