Financial Diaries Projects

Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

China Financial Diaries

To better understand the financial services needs of the demand side, which includes both households and smallholders/enterprises, the World...

Key Partners: Chinese Academy of Financial Inclusion, World Bank
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

India Financial Diaries

As part of the GAFIS project, BFA Global collected Financial Diaries of a small sample of savings account holders...

Key Partners: Gateway Financial Innovations for Savings (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and...
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Kenya Financial Diaries

BFA Global, funded by FSD Kenya, undertook a comprehensive financial diaries study in Kenya. Over the course of one...

Key Partners: FSD Kenya, Digital Divide Data
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Mexico Financial Diaries

Mexico Financial Diaries set out to obtain granular, long-term, provider-side data about the financial lives of low-income Mexicans. This...

Key Partners: Gateway Financial Innovations for Savings (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and...
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Mozambique Smallholder Financial Diaries

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) contracted BFA Global to implement the year-long Financial Diaries with Smallholder...

Key Partners: CGAP
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Pakistan Smallholder Financial Diaries

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) contracted BFA Global to implement the year-long Financial Diaries with Smallholder...

Key Partners: CGAP
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Rwanda Financial Diaries

FinScope 2012 provided Rwanda’s financial sector with a broad map of financial access and usage trends across the country’s...

Key Partners: Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) and VISA
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

South Africa Financial Diaries

GAFIS South Africa Financial Diaries The South African Financial Diaries tracked the financial behavior of 67 households over the...

Key Partners: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

Tanzania Smallholder Financial Diaries

The Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) contracted BFA Global to implement the year-long Financial Diaries with Smallholder...

Key Partners: CGAP
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise, Refugee Finance

The Financial Inclusion for Refugees Project in Uganda (FI4R)

Financial Diaries with Forcibly Displaced People in Uganda In August 2019, we launched the Financial Inclusion for Refugees Project...

Key Partners: FSD Uganda, FSD Africa
Digital Financial Services, Livelihoods and Microenterprise

U.S. Financial Diaries

The Financial Diaries methodology has been used by researchers in other countries and by institutions wishing to better understand...

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We harness applied research, data science, financial analyses, artificial intelligence, human-centered design, strategy planning and lean product development to help our partners and clients design high-impact solutions.

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