Category: External Publications

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

ESF+ financial instruments. Handbook

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

Fostering Financial Inclusion of FDPs from Ukraine

Access to affordable and suitable financial services is critical for Forcibly Displaced Persons (FDPs) as it helps them to be more resilient, self-reliant, and protected, [...]

A Green Future for All

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

Combining ESF+ financial instruments with grants

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

Microfinance as a Tool to Support Europe’s Missing Entrepreneurs

A new research paper on Microfinance as a Tool to Support Europe’s Missing [...]

Access to Finance for Forcibly Displaced Person-Led MSMEs

This special report examines the current global policy and regulatory approaches to enhancing access to finance for FDP-led MSMEs, providing key considerations for financial [...]

Implementing Financial Health: Creating Mutual Success for Financial Service Providers and Clients – Research Digest #3

The publication prepared by the ‘From Research to Practice and Back Again’ Action Group (AG) at e-MFP builds upon the AG’s work started in 2022 delving deeper into the [...]

The potential for financial instruments supporting migrant integration

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Social Housing and Beyond. Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds for investments in social housing and associated services

This toolkit provides an overview of all the opportunities offered by EU funds in the field of social housing and associated [...]

FINANCIAL INCLUSION COMPASS 2024

The Financial Inclusion Compass 2024 is the seventh in a series to collate sector opinions on emerging short, medium, and long-term trends in the financial inclusion [...]

Social housing: some social finance case studies across Europe

This paper aims at providing an overview of the specific challenges financial ethical institutions are confronted with when supporting social housing sector and how they overcome [...]

Social Housing and Beyond. Operational toolkit on the use of EU funds for investments in social housing and associated services

This toolkit provides an overview of all the opportunities offered by EU funds in the field of social housing and associated [...]

Read the latest publication: FINANCING SOCIAL ECONOMY IN EUROPE – THE NEED FOR A STRONGER INVESTEU PROGRAM

THE SOCIAL ECONOMY EUROPE’S SOCIAL FINANCE WORKING GROUP gathers members representing both the demand and the supply sides of social [...]

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