Communications
CGAP’s communications efforts make full use of a broad range of multimedia and other communications tools to advance knowledge and solutions that promote responsible, sustainable, and inclusive financial markets.
This targeted communications work helps shape the financial inclusion landscape in general and influences policy makers and others through consistent, clear messaging across CGAP’s Initiatives.
The updated Microfinance Gateway website is a unique, multilingual portal where a community of users share knowledge and resources in Arabic, English, French, and Spanish. Building on the foundation of the Microfinance Gateway, significant progress was made in FY2015 on the new Gateway Academy. The Gateway Academy is an innovative learning project that will build capacity through offering both online and blended courses and will cultivate communities of practice focused on financial inclusion in sub-Saharan Africa. The Gateway Academy is designed to create a transformative impact on financial inclusion by increasing the reach of high-quality training content.
Throughout the year, cgap.org continued to feature high-quality and relevant videos, infographics, photo compositions, and other multimedia components to get our messaging across in a compelling way.
Microfinance Gateway
The Microfinance Gateway website is a unique portal to share knowledge and bring together a community of Arabic, English, French, and Spanish users.
Learn MorePublications (FY 2015)
- Briefs
- Focus Notes
- Forum
- Technical Guides
- Working Papers
- Multimedia
Briefs
- February 2015 Digital Financial Inclusion
- February 2015 From Cash to Digital Transfers in India: The Story So Far
- February 2015 Promoting Competition in Mobile Payments: The Role of USSD
Focus Notes
- January 2015 The Potential of Digital Data
- October 2014 Getting Smart about Financial Inclusion
- September 2014 Facilitating the Market for Capacity Building Services
- September 2014 AML/CFT and Financial Inclusion
- July 2014 The Business Case for Youth Savings: A Framework
Forum
- April 2015 How M-Shwari Works
Technical Guides
- July 2014 SmartAid
Working Papers
Multimedia
CGAP Photo Contest
Over the past decade, the annual CGAP Photo Contest has documented—through incredible imagery—the remarkable ways that access to formal financial services can improve poor people’s lives. In 2015, the CGAP Photo Contest received 3,300 entries from photographers in 77 countries. The winning photos depicted digital financial services, women’s use of financial services, microfinance for small business enterprises, and smallholder farmers and their families.
Learn MoreAbove images are the top three winners of the 2015 CGAP Photo Contest. From left to right: “Paddy Cultivation,” by Sujan Sarkar, “Fishing with a Net,” by Liming Cao, “Hands for Freedom,” by Pranab Basak.