Linking refugees to formal financial services
Financial services are an important avenue for refugees to save money, access loans, and manage life shocks. However, many...
Living on Little: Navigating financial scarcity in modern Kenya
Living on very little money doesn’t just mean that you worry about how to feed your family and pay...
Finance bends; will it break?
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, November 11, 2020 On average, families in the Kenya Financial Diaries started...
Press Release: Announcing the $4.3M Catalyst Fund Inclusive Digital Commerce Accelerator in Ghana to improve the financial resilience of informal MSEs
ACCRA, Ghana, 19th October, 2020 – Catalyst Fund, managed by BFA Global, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation and...
Debts in distress: how ordinary people are finding the liquidity they need to survive COVID
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, September 6, 2020 “Things are getting bad,” Vanessa told us. When we...
Webinar: Rebuilding livelihoods in displacement in the wake of COVID-19
When: Wednesday, August 26th at 3.00 – 4.30 pm EAT Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Uganda and FSD Africa – in collaboration with BFA Global will...
Grit, Skills and Luck: Examining the financial lives of refugees in Uganda
This report commissioned by FSD Uganda and FSD Africa provides an in-depth analysis of a quantitative survey undertaken in...
Imagining Post-COVID recovery
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, July 10, 2020 How Financial Diaries families imagine reconstructing their income streams...
Meet Mango Life, enabling Mexicans to easily purchase affordable life and health insurance
En Español Insurance penetration in Mexico is extremely low, only 15% of Mexicans have private life insurance, and...
Corona Case Studies: Running out of options
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, June 12, 2020 After three months of Covid-19 restrictions, Jennifer’s economic options...