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Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report (2025 Edition)

This 13th edition of the Survey on Microfinance in Europe, produced by the European Microfinance Network (EMN) and the Microfinance Centre (MFC), draws on data from 198 [...]

Social Finance Mapping 2025

This publication provides a comprehensive overview of key actors and organisations shaping the microfinance and social economy finance sectors across [...]

Capacity Building Needs 2025

This paper presents the key findings from the Microfinance Centre’s assessment of capacity building needs for social finance providers across [...]

Social Finance Trends 2025

This briefing captures the most important developments, challenges and opportunities in the social finance sector at various levels: from the [...]

Green Microfinance Map

The Green Microfinance Map showcases microfinance institutions offering dedicated microloan products that support climate adaptation and mitigation. Microfinance institutions [...]

Enhancing Food Security through Finance-Enabled Food Systems Transformation

This working paper examines how inclusive finance can address today's food security challenges by unlocking targeted investments in high-impact agricultural value chains (AVCs) [...]

Building Resilience through Inclusive Insurance: Insights from the European Microfinance Award 2025

'Building Resilience through Inclusive Insurance'explores how inclusive insurance empowers low-income and vulnerable people to manage risk and seize [...]

Social Impact Measurement Toolkit

Welcome to the new toolkit, an interactive guide to help microfinance professionals achieve more social [...]

Successful Impact Investors Models for Funding Social Economy in Europe: 8 case studies

This document examines the financing options for social economy entities in Europe that are appropriate to the needs, stage of development and legal status of social enterprises. [...]

Unlocking Private Capital for Social Good in Central & Eastern Europe

he report is a comprehensive analysis of the research conducted between 2020 and 2023 in collaboration with key stakeholders and decision-makers in 11 countries of Central and [...]

Catch Up on What Matters: SIFTA Webinars Now Online

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Empowering Inclusion: 9 Social Innovation Cases

Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily [...]

Insurance and Risk Management Tools for Agriculture in the EU

The report takes stocks of the forms of support currently in place for agriculture insurance schemes and other climate adaptation de-risking schemes across EU Member [...]

Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report (2024 edition)

This is the 12th edition of the Survey Report on Microfinance in Europe, produced by the European Microfinance Network and the Microfinance Centre. The study covered 169 [...]

ERSTE Group Social Banking Annual Report 2024

Read the latest ERSTE Group Social Banking Annual report [...]

ERDF renewable energy loans in Pomorskie, Poland

This factsheet describes how ESF+ financial instruments can be combined with grants. [...]

What Can Be Done To Address The Needs Of 93% Of Enterprises In EU?

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ESF+ financial instruments. Handbook

This factsheet describes how ESF+ financial instruments can be combined with grants. [...]

Capacity building needs and solutions for social finance providers in EU 27

This paper presents the work in progress of MFC and its partners in identifying capacity building needs of social finance [...]

Microfinance in the Caucasus and Central Asia. 2024 Edition

The latest study by Microfinance Centre (MFC) reveals that the microfinance sector in the Caucasus and Central Asia region has [...]

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