Climate Resilience
An inclusive financial system empowers vulnerable people to pursue their own climate resilience strategies, making it an absolute necessity for a just transition.News & Stories
Browse our curated collection of videos, podcasts, events, influence stories, and the latest news about CGAP.Data-driven Financial Services
Emerging evidence shows that data trails generated by poor people can be harnessed for developing inclusive financial services. Learn what CGAP is doing to unlock how data can be leveraged to catalyze financial services that reach poor and underserved people at scale and in a responsible manner.Funders & Partners
Understanding how the financial inclusion sector is evolving is challenging for donors and investors alike. What role can they play in an increasingly complex landscape? What market needs should they be focusing on? How should they go about it?What is Vision-Driven Financial Regulation?
Innovation drives progress, but the law shapes it. CGAP has been exploring the intersection between regulation, innovation, and financial inclusion through research on what makes some regulators better equipped to deal with innovation than others.Market monitoring for financial consumer protection
Market conduct supervisors (MCSs) charged with protecting consumers of financial products and services place great value on identifying, understanding, and tracking industry developments and market-level consumer risks and consumer behavior—the activities collectively known as market monitoring.Financial Services on the Frontlines: Insights from Crisis-Affected Regions
This blog series explores the role of financial services in resilience and adaptability during times of crisis. It offers critical insights into the strategies of customers and financial institutions in navigating crises and explores how the development and humanitarian community can coordinate efforts in some of the world's most challenging environments to build foundations for a better future, including financial inclusion.
Empowering Small Giants: Inclusive Embedded Finance for Micro-retailers
Financial inclusion is becoming more feasible for many excluded and underserved micro-retailers, thanks to the emergence of new B2B e-commerce companies that are digitizing the final stage of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) supply chain. This report outlines various business models that incorporate last-mile retailers into digital ordering platforms, offering them convenience, transparency, and a wide range of products.Financial Services Amid Crisis: Resilience and Reconstruction in Gaza and West Bank
FSPs in the West Bank & Gaza face unprecedented challenges amid the ongoing crisis, with Gaza's situation changing daily. Eventual stability will bring a flow of aid, making it crucial to support & rebuild the financial sector for future development.Salome W. Kimani
Salome joined CGAP in October 2023 and is currently engaged with CGAP’s work on scaling innovative finance for micro and small enterprises (MSE). Salome has worked extensively on the financial sustainability of microfinance institutions, and the financial and digital inclusivity of MSMEs, migrants, women, youth and refugees in Africa.
Richard Leslie Wright
In 2023, Richard set up as an independent consultant after 26 years as Unilever’s leading behavioral scientist. During his time with the multinational, he set up and led programs across the world, specializing in those that help consumers become more sustainable. In 2015 he co-designed the £90M TRANSFORM collaboration with the UK Government and EY.
Influence Stories
These stories highlight examples of CGAP’s influence in the financial sector over the years, from the Graduation Program that started in 2006 to some of our more recent work on open application programming interfaces (APIs), regulatory sandboxes, and pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar financing.
Cultivating Change: Empowering Rural Women through ABERA
Rural women play crucial roles in families, farms, and businesses, but their unique financial aspirations, constraints, and risks – including to climate shocks and stresses – are overlooked and underserved. CGAP and IDH are on a mission to change that. Accelerating Business to Empower Rural women in Agriculture (ABERA) is a cohort of financial service providers, agribusinesses, and agtechs convened by CGAP and IDH to build their business performance as well as meet specific gender and climate goals. This first blog series from ABERA shares snippets and initial findings from these path-breaking
Influence Stories
These stories highlight examples of CGAP’s influence in the financial sector over the years, from the Graduation Program that started in 2006 to some of our more recent work on open application programming interfaces (APIs), regulatory sandboxes, and pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar financing.