2019 Data
International funders committed approximately US$52 billion to financial inclusion in 2019, a 12 percent increase from the US$46 billion reported in 2018.
The Funding Explorer is a set of highly interactive analytical dashboards. This tool uses data from the CGAP Funder Survey complemented by publicly available contextual indicators
Data snapshots are available at the global and regional levels. The 2019 CGAP Funder Survey reports funding commitments from 54 international funders, both public and private, as of the end of 2019.
For more than a decade, the CGAP Annual Cross-Border Funder Survey has tracked and reported on international funding commitments for financial inclusion. Each year’s data reveals specific themes worthy of further analysis and emerging priorities for the sector. The posts in this
2018 Data
International funding increased by 12 percent in 2018 to approximately US$47 billion, a trend that has been consistent over the past five years. A third of international funders have been purposefully aligning their financial inclusion efforts to the achievement of SDGs.
An interactive analytical dashboard where users can create specific queries from that data. The explorer uses CGAP Funder Survey data complemented by publicly available contextual indicators.
Data snapshots are available at the global and regional levels and represent funding commitments from 23 international public and private funders.
2017 Data
One of the key takeaways from the latest CGAP Funder Survey is that international funders committed US$42 billion to financial inclusion in 2017—a double-digit percentage increase from the prior year. For the first time in five years, public funding has grown faster than private funding.
The data snapshots generated here come from the 2017 CGAP Funder Survey. Data snapshots are available at the global and regional levels. The 2017 CGAP Funder Survey reports funding commitments from 54 international funders, both public and private, as of the end of 2017.
Funding for financial inclusion quadrupled between 2007 and 2017. However, greater coordination is needed to ensure funders focus on filling gaps in the sector without duplicating efforts and they build interventions based on their comparative advantage.
Funding for women's financial inclusion is on the rise, but just 10 percent of financial inclusion programs are identified as having a gender component, according to the CGAP Funders Survey.
Funding for regulatory reform constitutes a small but crucial part of funder support for financial inclusion worldwide. Is it having the intended impact?
2016 Data
The CGAP Cross-Border Funder Survey shows that funder commitments to financial inclusion reached a historic high of US$37 billion in 2016.
The survey covering the year 2016 collected data from 23 funders and outlines financial instruments used, purpose of funding, type of funding (e.g., public, private), geographic allocation, and more.
What areas of financial inclusion are funders focusing on? Which countries are receiving the most funding? Are funders’ interventions making a difference? In this blog series, we look at data on international funding for financial inclusion and explore some answers to these
2015 Data
This Brief highlights findings from CGAP’s annual Cross-Border Funder Survey. New commitments in 2015 increased total funding for financial inclusion to $34 billion. Between 2013 and 2015, about one-third of funders decreased their portfolios, while the remainder maintained or increased their commitments.
What is the current landscape of financial inclusion funding, and what can we learn from the global trends? This blog series explores the data from the 2015 CGAP Funders Survey, completed in partnership with MIX.
2014 Data
After steadily increasing in previous years, international funding of financial inclusion is estimated to have plateaued at $31 billion in 2014.
Twenty-three funders participated in the 2015 survey, accounting for 66 percent of this year’s global estimate. Among the 21 funders who have reported annually, commitments grew by 3 percent in 2013 U.S. dollars, but marked a small decline in current exchange rates due to a weaker euro at the end of 2014.