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⛱️Our July 2024 Newsletter is now out with all the latest #financialinclusion news from e-MFP: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eq7n3rJP ☀️ Highlights from 8th European Research Conference on Microfinance, Bergamo ☀️ Findings from the ‘Financial Inclusion Compass 2024’ – in EN, FR & ES with FinDev Gateway joint webinar ☀️ Guest blogs on ‘Advancing Financial Inclusion for Refugees & Forcibly Displaced People’. ☀️ ‘Implementing Financial Health: Creating Mutual Success for Financial Service Providers and Clients’ ☀️ Climate Change & WASH webinars – latest sessions ☀️ Breaking Barriers: Harnessing Gender Lens Investments for Sustainable Impact and Inclusive Finance- blog & FinEquity webinar ☀️ Best Graduate Paper Award at ERCM ☀️ Welcome to our 5 new members! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eq7n3rJP Thanks to all our contributors! Davide Castellani, Università degli Studi di Bergamo; Sam Mendelson, Deborah Foy, Opportunity International; Philippe Guichandut, Grameen Credit Agricole Foundation ; ASONGO ABRAHAM IORKAA, PhD., Standard Microfinance Bank; Lene M.P. Hansen; Micol Pistelli, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency; Laura Cordero; Swati Mehta Dhawan, PhD; Max Nino-Zarazua; Aurélie Larquemin; Owais Shafiq, Aqua for All; Jack Lambert Strosser; Joana Silva Afonso, Gabriela Erice García; Nisha Singh; FinDev Gateway; Christina (CJ) Juhasz, Women's World Banking; Veronika Giusti Keller, BlueOrchard Finance Ltd; Patrick Murhula Cubaka; Armande MAHABI NABAMI; GOGLA; ICFA - International Climate Finance Accelerator; Kiva; PPI - People Power Inclusion; Tameo #microfinance #financialinclusion #responsible #investing #refugees #water #sanitation #gender #financialhealth #womensempowerment

Gracias Portal FinDev - Inclusión Financiera Microfinanzas por incluir 'El Financial Inclusion Compass 2024 - Resumen ejecutivo' 👉 https://lnkd.in/eH2UveYj

Merci Portail FinDev d'avoir inclus le 'Financial Inclusion Compass 2024 - résumé éxecutif' ! 👉 https://lnkd.in/eCStR-yN

📢 BLOG: Effective Public-Private Partnerships to Advance Financial Inclusion and Financial Well-Being of Forcibly Displaced Persons and their Hosts – Aligning the Business Cases 👉 https://lnkd.in/eSM_x4RJ In the fifth of e-MFP's annual series of guest blogs on the topic of the European Microfinance Award - 'Advancing Financial Inclusion for Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People’ - Lene M.P. Hansen and Micol Pistelli from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency discuss the role of public-private partnerships between humanitarian actors, development agencies, host governments and the private sector, and the factors that underpin their effectiveness. #refugees #displaced #financialinclusion #inclusivefinance #publicprivate Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, #LuxAid, Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg InFiNe.lu, FinDev Gateway,

Además de ser Aliado Estratégico, nos complace anunciar que Juana Ramirez Ramírez, consultora de l' e-MFP, formará parte del panel de expertos del próximo Foro Regional "Evolución de las Finanzas Inclusivas hacia la Sostenibilidad", organizado por #REDCAMIF y #REDOMIF 👉https://bit.ly/456hmkP Este panel tendrá por objetivo fortalecer las capacidades de medición y gestión de impacto de las Instituciones Financieras, mediante los procesos de recopilación y análisis de datos. Se presentarán herramientas e iniciativas que han ayudado a las Instituciones Financieras a comprender mejor su base de clientes, atraer inversionistas e informar sobre el impacto en las poblaciones vulnerables.  📌Punta Cana, del 17 al 19 de julio de 2024 👉Información y registro aquí https://bit.ly/456hmkP ¡CUPOS LIMITADOS!   #REDCAMIF #Sostenibilidad #InversióndeImpacto #enfoquedegénero #REDOMIF #EvoluciónFinanciera #finanzasinclusivas #microfinanzas CENTRAL AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN MICROFINANCE NETWORK (REDCAMIF)

🤔Have you registered yet? TOMORROW, 2 JULY, WEBINAR: Mobilising climate finance for WASH - Practitioners’ takeaways 👉https://lnkd.in/gEzcw6wg The e-MFP WASH Action Group is excited to continue its Climate Change and WASH webinar series on 2nd July. Despite increasing interest in WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) from potential investors partially due to the significant focus on water and WASH at COP 28, mobilising climate finance for the sector remains a tall order. Yet we know that WASH is an incredibly impactful sector, one which can absorb climate finance like no other. With this in mind, we have invited various institutions to discuss how they have mobilised climate finance towards WASH projects, and share their challenges, and successes. Join us! Panelists: Owais Shafiq, Aqua for All; Carlos Aguilar @Azure; JohnPatrick K. Kimani, Sidian Bank #WASH #water #Sanitation #financialinclusion #microfinance #climatefinance FinDev Gateway, Blanca Méndez, Jack Lambert Strosser, NextBillion.net

🌟We are thrilled to partner with The LHoFT - Luxembourg House of Financial Technology for the inaugural edition of Catapult South East Asia! It is a privilege to share our expertise with the fintechs selected for the second week of the accelerator program in Luxembourg. e-MFP's Gabriela Erice García joined the team of mentors advising the 10 fintechs, and Joana Silva Afonso, Chiara Pescatori (Luxembourg Microfinance and Development Fund), Sahana Arun Kumar & Pascal SIMON (Amarante Consulting) and Gabriela Erice García also conducted individual sessions with the entrepreneurs focusing on outcomes and impact management. We are truly grateful to Annabelle Albert-Fonteneau & Alex Panican for inviting us to participate in the programme once again. Special thanks to Chiara, Sahana, and Pascal, our esteemed members, for dedicating their time and sharing their invaluable knowledge. We also extend our gratitude to the entrepreneurs; we learned so much from you and wish you the best of luck in today's final pitch and the future of your businesses! AIForesee, Christian Limawan; BlueDuck, Earnest Wong; Ekko, Mads Werner; Farmvocacy, Vincent Roy P. Mendoza; Fina Fintech, Souphaphone Souannavong; Global CreditPros, Ronica Pineda-Jones; GoodTech Information Systems Inc., Jove Tapiador; InvestEd, Carmina Bayombong; Noburo Wealth-Being, Thisana Thitisakdiskul; Wahine Capital, Rejina Rahim. Louis de Muyser, Paul Weber, Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade, Cerise+SPTF, ADA asbl

REMINDER! 💧WEBINAR: Mobilising climate finance for WASH - Practitioners’ takeaways Date: 2 July 2024, 15:00 - 16:00 CEST 👉https://lnkd.in/eNNhqfBV The e-MFP WASH Action Group is excited to continue its Climate Change and WASH webinar series on 2nd July. Despite increasing interest in WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene) from potential investors partially due to the significant focus on water and WASH at COP 28, mobilising climate finance for the sector remains a tall order. Yet we know that WASH is an incredibly impactful sector, one which can absorb climate finance like no other. With this in mind, we have invited various institutions to discuss how they have mobilised climate finance towards WASH projects, and share their challenges, and successes. Join us! Panelists: Owais Shafiq, Aqua for All; Carlos Aguilar , @Azure; JohnPatrick K. Kimani, Sidian Bank #WASH #water #Sanitation #financialinclusion #microfinance #climatefinance FinDev Gateway, Blanca Méndez, Jack Lambert Strosser

📢 BLOG: A Displaced Nation: How Colombia Has Supported the Financial Inclusion of its Forcibly Displaced Populations 👉 https://lnkd.in/gbrnqTbA In the fourth of e-MFP's annual series of guest blogs on the topic of the European Microfinance Award - 'Advancing Financial Inclusion for Refugees and Forcibly Displaced People’ - Laura Cordero presents the history of displacement within and to #Colombia, and how that country has put public processes in place and mobilised its financial inclusion actors to address this challenge - with valuable lessons for others. #microfinance #financialinclusion #refugees Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, Defence, Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade; Inclusive Finance Network Luxembourg InFiNe.lu; UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, International Rescue Committee.

🏆And the winners of the ‘Best Graduate Research Paper Award’ at ERCM in #Bergamo are: 🥇1st Place: Patrick Murhula Cubaka from the University of Mons for his paper ‘Does size really matter? Membership and Performance of Financial Cooperatives’. 🏅2nd place: Armande MAHABI NABAMI from the University of Agder (UiA) for her paper ‘Rotation and gender diversity in the supervision: Does this matter for women-only informal financial institutions?’ which was co-authored with her supervisors Bert D'Espallier & Roy Mersland. Presented by e-MFP's Joana Silva Afonso - Congratulations to both Armande and Patrick! The Best Graduate Research Paper Award, established by e-MFP in 2017, aims to encourage young and early career researchers engage with microfinance and financial inclusion. It provides an opportunity to receive feedback from experienced researchers and also gain visibility within the academic community. The author of the winning paper receives 1000€, while the second place gets 500€. Both are invited to the European Microfinance Week in Luxembourg, e-MFP’s annual conference on 13-15 November 2024. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/eE-F3n2P #research #knowledgesharing #exchange #microfinance #financialinclusion Università degli Studi di Bergamo, Davide Castellani