 | e-MFP Activity Report 2023 2023 was certainly the busiest and most productive year in e-MFP’s history. Whether in terms of sector engagement, events, publications, member engagement, communications, the European Microfinance Award and Week or Action Groups - the platform continues to grow in reach and breadth of its work. This annual activity report provides a summary to our members and the financial inclusion community of what we have been doing this year.
Read here |
 | Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition: Lessons and Best Practices from the European Microfinance Award 2023 'Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition' condenses the themes, pulls together the outstanding cases, profiles the 10 semi-finalists (and among them the 3 finalists) of the European Microfinance Award 2023 and concludes with the 'Factors for Success' that have emerged. What distinguishes the ten exceptional initiatives and how can other organisations replicate their success?
Read here |
 | The Financial Inclusion Compass 2023 - the e-MFP Survey of Financial Inclusion Trends The Financial Inclusion Compass 2023, is the sixth annual survey of financial inclusion stakeholders to better understand perspectives on current trends, future priority areas, challenges, opportunities and beyond. A record number of respondents participated – this is what we believe makes the Compass unique and special. It is the only publication that gives FSPs, funders, TA providers, researchers, and everyone else the space to think and respond across a wide range of topics.
Read here |
 | e-MFP Members' Spotlight 2023 on Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition
e-MFP is a member-led platform, and we always want to hear what our members are doing in different fields, to increase linkages and knowledge sharing both across the platform and with other stakeholders. Over 2023, e-MFP reached out with some questions to its members to see who was doing what in the area of this year’s European Microfinance Award theme – Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition.
Read here |
 | State of the Art of Green Inclusive Finance 2011-2019 The report is based on extensive data collection conducted by partners and members of the e-MFP Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group and presents an analysis of Green Inclusive Finance trends over the past decade. Leveraging the framework of the Green Index, and built on data from over 1,130 environmental assessments conducted across 866 diverse Financial Service Providers (FSPs), this publication aims to establish a benchmark for ongoing data collection and sector analysis.
Read here |
 | The Green Index 3.0 - The Essential Practices Case Studies As part of the Green Map project, with the dual objective of sharing good practices and illustrating how the Green Index framework can be useful to guide institutions in the definition and implementation of their green strategy, 15 case studies were developed. These are available in 3 languages and explore the experience of different financial service providers across the world in relation to a specific Green Index Essential Practice.
Read here |
 | Building a Bridge Between Financial Education and Financial Health This Second Research Digest is a publication of the ‘From Research to Practice and Back Again’ Action Group aiming to explore research needs of practitioners by compiling and translating research conducted in the sector into practitioner-friendly language. This report focuses on understanding the relationship between financial education (FE) and financial health (FH). During the second half of 2022, a team of researchers delved into the concepts/definitions, dimensions, and indicators related to FE and FH, and collected insights on practice from relevant stakeholders to shed light on the relationships between FE and FH, and how these can ultimately contribute to improve the lives of low-income populations.
Read here |
 | WASH and Financial Inclusion: A Set of Indicators to Guide the Activities of Impact Investors in the WASH Sector Through this working document, e-MFP and Aqua for All share the result of an e-MFP WASH Action Group (AG) project aiming to identify a set of priority indicators to be used by impact investors when evaluating their potential and existing WASH investments. The framework presented is intended to be a starting point that can be gradually expanded as more investors become engaged in the sector and increasingly aware of the benefits of aligning data collection and analysis efforts.
Read here |
 | 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance conference report The report of the 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance provides an overview of the academic sessions and social events and a summary of the main ideas and messages conveyed during the three days of the conference held in June 2022 in Glasgow, UK. The conference was organised by the Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health, Glasgow Caledonian University in collaboration with CERMi and supported by e-MFP.
Read here |
 | European Microfinance Week 2022 Conference Recordings
Delve into the recordings of the EMW2022 hybrid sessions covering key topics such as climate and green finance, social performance, digital financial inclusion, women's financial inclusion, WASH, refugee finance, client protection and more…
Read here |
 | Financial Inclusion that Works for Women: Lessons and Best Practices from the European Microfinance Award 2022 In addition to the English edition, the 2022 Award publication ‘Financial Inclusion that Works for Women’ is available in Spanish and French to widen outreach to the French and Spanish communities. The publication pulls together the innovations and factors for success of the 2022 top-ten remarkable initiatives that others can use to learn from and replicate.
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e-MFP has had a busy and productive 2023 and this is especially true for publications. A big thank you to all those involved and in case some passed you by, see the complete list:
e-MFP Activity Report 2023
2023 was certainly the busiest and most productive year in e-MFP’s history. Whether in terms of sector engagement, events, publications, member engagement, communications, the European Microfinance Award and Week or Action Groups - the platform continues to grow in reach and breadth of its work. This annual activity report provides a summary to our members and the financial inclusion community of what we have been doing this year.
Read here
Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition: Lessons and Best Practices from the European Microfinance Award 2023
'Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition' condenses the themes, pulls together the outstanding cases, profiles the 10 semi-finalists (and among them the 3 finalists) of the European Microfinance Award 2023 and concludes with the 'Factors for Success' that have emerged. What distinguishes the ten exceptional initiatives and how can other organisations replicate their success?
Read here
The Financial Inclusion Compass 2023 - the e-MFP Survey of Financial Inclusion Trends
The Financial Inclusion Compass 2023, is the sixth annual survey of financial inclusion stakeholders to better understand perspectives on current trends, future priority areas, challenges, opportunities and beyond. A record number of respondents participated – this is what we believe makes the Compass unique and special. It is the only publication that gives FSPs, funders, TA providers, researchers, and everyone else the space to think and respond across a wide range of topics.
Read here
e-MFP Members' Spotlight 2023 on Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition
e-MFP is a member-led platform, and we always want to hear what our members are doing in different fields, to increase linkages and knowledge sharing both across the platform and with other stakeholders. Over 2023, e-MFP reached out with some questions to its members to see who was doing what in the area of this year’s European Microfinance Award theme – Inclusive Finance for Food Security & Nutrition.
Read here
State of the Art of Green Inclusive Finance 2011-2019
The report is based on extensive data collection conducted by partners and members of the e-MFP Green Inclusive and Climate Smart Finance Action Group and presents an analysis of Green Inclusive Finance trends over the past decade. Leveraging the framework of the Green Index, and built on data from over 1,130 environmental assessments conducted across 866 diverse Financial Service Providers (FSPs), this publication aims to establish a benchmark for ongoing data collection and sector analysis.
Read here
The Green Index 3.0 - The Essential Practices Case Studies
As part of the Green Map project, with the dual objective of sharing good practices and illustrating how the Green Index framework can be useful to guide institutions in the definition and implementation of their green strategy, 15 case studies were developed. These are available in 3 languages and explore the experience of different financial service providers across the world in relation to a specific Green Index Essential Practice.
Read here
Building a Bridge Between Financial Education and Financial Health
This Second Research Digest is a publication of the ‘From Research to Practice and Back Again’ Action Group aiming to explore research needs of practitioners by compiling and translating research conducted in the sector into practitioner-friendly language. This report focuses on understanding the relationship between financial education (FE) and financial health (FH). During the second half of 2022, a team of researchers delved into the concepts/definitions, dimensions, and indicators related to FE and FH, and collected insights on practice from relevant stakeholders to shed light on the relationships between FE and FH, and how these can ultimately contribute to improve the lives of low-income populations.
Read here
WASH and Financial Inclusion: A Set of Indicators to Guide the Activities of Impact Investors in the WASH Sector
Through this working document, e-MFP and Aqua for All share the result of an e-MFP WASH Action Group (AG) project aiming to identify a set of priority indicators to be used by impact investors when evaluating their potential and existing WASH investments. The framework presented is intended to be a starting point that can be gradually expanded as more investors become engaged in the sector and increasingly aware of the benefits of aligning data collection and analysis efforts.
Read here
7th European Research Conference on Microfinance conference report
The report of the 7th European Research Conference on Microfinance provides an overview of the academic sessions and social events and a summary of the main ideas and messages conveyed during the three days of the conference held in June 2022 in Glasgow, UK. The conference was organised by the Yunus Centre for Social Business & Health, Glasgow Caledonian University in collaboration with CERMi and supported by e-MFP.
Read here
European Microfinance Week 2022 Conference Recordings
Delve into the recordings of the EMW2022 hybrid sessions covering key topics such as climate and green finance, social performance, digital financial inclusion, women's financial inclusion, WASH, refugee finance, client protection and more…
Read here
Financial Inclusion that Works for Women: Lessons and Best Practices from the European Microfinance Award 2022
In addition to the English edition, the 2022 Award publication ‘Financial Inclusion that Works for Women’ is available in Spanish and French to widen outreach to the French and Spanish communities. The publication pulls together the innovations and factors for success of the 2022 top-ten remarkable initiatives that others can use to learn from and replicate.
Read in English / Lire en français / Leer en espanol