Category: External Publications

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 [...]

ERSTE Group – Social Banking Impact Report 2023

Erste Group’s Social Banking reaches milestone of EUR 600 million in loans granted. Last year, Erste Group provided 125.5 million [...]

The role of Artificial Intelligence in Social Finance – Research Paper

This research paper was developed as part of a workshop that took place on April 28, 2023 on ‘New Developments on [...]

Equity Capital in the Social & Solidarity Economy

Barbara Scheck and Clémentine Blazy, from FEBEA member ECSOCFIN have written this Research Paper together with the collaboration of FEBEA. The [...]

Financial Inclusion Compass 2023

e-MFP’s Financial Inclusion Compass 2023 is the sixth annual survey of financial inclusion stakeholders to better understand perspectives on current trends, [...]

Setting up financial instruments supporting migrant integration.

Practical guide part 1 This fi-compass practical guide aims to assist Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund (AMIF) Managing Authorities and [...]

The Missing Entrepreneurs 2023

Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Self-Employment The Missing Entrepreneurs 2023 is the seventh edition in a series of biennial reports [...]

Green Index 3.0: case studies for each Essential Practice

Read the case studies which illustrate how the Green Index framework can be useful to the institutions looking for learning [...]

Technical Needs Assessment Among Entrepreneurial Households and Micro-/Smallholder Farmers in the Agricultural Production and Processing Sector in Armenia

The German Sparkassenstiftung (German Savings Banks Foundation for International Cooperation, DSIK) was commissioned by the German Government to implement a [...]

Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Systems: A Microfinance Perspective

This Working Paper is the first paper resulting from a research project on “Strengthening Financial Inclusion through Digitalization: (SFIDE). The [...]

BUILDING A BRIDGE BETWEEN FINANCIAL EDUCATION AND FINANCIAL HEALTH

A publication of the [...]

Financial Inclusion that Works for Women: Lessons and best practices from the European Microfinance Award 2022

Financial Inclusion that Works for Women opens with a tour of a complex and emerging landscape of gender mainstreaming – a [...]

Green Inclusive Finance: A Framework for Understanding How Financial Services Can Help Low-Income and Vulnerable People Respond to Climate Change

As climate change-induced events increase in frequency, unpredictability, and severity, the people most impacted by such events are those least [...]

Igniting SDG Progress Through Digital Financial Inclusion (2023 edition)

Digital financial services offer real hope to help the world get back on track from the severe negative impacts from [...]

The Promise of Fintech for Micro and Small Enterprises

Nearly 500 million micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are estimated to be operating around the world. Access to credit and [...]

Financial Inclusion Compass 2022

The Financial Inclusion Compass 2022 is the fifth in a series to collate sector opinions on emerging short, medium, and [...]

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