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Social Finance Trends 2024

Read the summary of key trends in microfinance and social finance sector of 2024. Public sector engagement, ESG for social [...]

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 [...]

Supporting micro and small entrepreneurs and vulnerable households for a fair green transition

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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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Read our latest publication. “Microfinance in Europe: Survey Report (2023 edition)” is out!

The 2023 edition of the EMN-MFC Microfinance Survey in Europe offers a snapshot of the microfinance sector from 2022. The study covered 169 institutions from 29 [...]

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 [...]

Capacity building needs of social finance providers

MFC aims at building capacity of members and partners for mission driven, sustainable microfinance, concerned with climate protection issues, fostering [...]

Social Finance Mapping

Early 2022, MFC has kicked off the work around mapping of the key international and national stakeholders, that are engaged [...]

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