Tag: Access to Finance
Combining ESF+ financial instruments with grants
This factsheet describes how ESF+ financial instruments can be combined with grants. By combining grants with financial instruments, managing authorities can address market failure
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Microfinance as a Tool to Support Europe’s Missing Entrepreneurs
A new research paper on Microfinance as a Tool to Support Europe’s Missing Entrepreneurs from CEB introduces a simple theoretical framework - the Entrepreneurship Pyramid - to be
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Access to Finance for Forcibly Displaced Person-Led MSMEs
Forced displacement has increased sharply in recent years, with no indication of slowing down in the foreseeable future. Host countries can benefit economically and socially from
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Empowering Women Entrepreneurs: Successful Completion of “The Way to Business” Program
The Way to Business program, launched in February 2023, has successfully enabled female refugees from Ukraine to establish their businesses or re-start their careers in Polan
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Implementing Financial Health: Creating Mutual Success for Financial Service Providers and Clients – Research Digest #3
By Max Niño-Zarazua, Aurélie Larquemin and Davide Castellani in collaboration with the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) ‘From Research to Practice and Back Again’ Actio
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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 services. Through concrete case studies across a large
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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 sector.
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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 services. Through concrete case studies across a large
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Setting up financial instruments supporting migrant integration.
Practical guide part 1This fi-compass practical guide aims to assist Asylum, Migration, and Integration Fund (AMIF) Managing Authorities and other stakeholders as they begin explor
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The Missing Entrepreneurs 2023
Policies for Inclusive Entrepreneurship and Self-EmploymentThe Missing Entrepreneurs 2023 is the seventh edition in a series of biennial reports examining how government policies c
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Transform Together Fund (TTF) – Call for Evaluators
MFC and Cerise+SPTF are launching a call for external experts to evaluate applications submitted under the Social Innovations for Fair Green and Digital Transition project funded b
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The Way to Business. Program for Ukrainian women in Poland
The MFC is delighted to announce the program in Poland on supporting Ukrainian entrepreneurial female displaced by the war in Ukraine. With the support provided by JP Morgan Chase
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#SFV2022 Closing
Closing of the Social Finance Vibe 2022, including: Insights to inspire from Sophie Sirtaine, CGAP CEO Financial services in building resilience The wor
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#SFV2022 Impact Measurement Revisited
Recent years have seen a number of crucial developments in social and environmental performance reporting. Here we examine the key impact measurement frameworks in use today by var
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#SFV2022 Talk with Leaders: Gabriele Giuglietti, Banca Etica, Italy
In this recording, the leader in financing social economy in Italy and Spain: Gabriele Giugglieti from Banca Etica is sharing his expert insights on the ideal conditions for the so
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#SFV2022 EU Funding for Microfinance and the Social Economy
Our experts discussed overview of current opportunities for MFIs and social enterprise finance providers in terms of EU programmes and initiatives such as InvestEU, SIFTA, fi-compa
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#SFV2022 Talk with Leaders: Karolina Witeska-Chmielewska, FDPA, Poland
Within Green Inclusive Finance Recognition, The Foundation for the Development of Polish Agriculture (FDPA) has been recognized as a Leader in sustainable agriculture innovation
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#SFV2022 Talk with Leaders: Katarzyna Duber-Stachurska, TISE, Poland
This is your chance to learn from more than 30 years of experience of the Social and Economic Investment Company TISE SA, established in Poland in 1991 and currently the biggest
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#SFV2022 Talk with Leaders: Oscar Ugarte Gamboa, Andrea Limone, Microeurope, EU
Here you can learn about MicroEurope, an innovative social investment company promoted by eight professionals and three leading European investment companies who all have common
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#SFV2022 Good Practice: Financing EE social economy actors
What is the outlook for the most advanced markets in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of the use of financial instruments for supporting the social economy? During this session,
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