Tag: Resources
watch: Advancing Green Microfinance – Entering Green Finance Space by MFIs
Entry into green finance sector brings new opportunities and potential benefits but is not without challenges. It is a new line of business for most microfinance institutions which
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MFC Member: Banca Etica – Impact Report 2020
Read the new Impact Report by Banca Etica, an MFC Memeber! "2019 marked Banca Etica’s twentieth year of activity. It was a year filled with new initiatives and goo
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Good Read for Leaders in Times of Pandemic: Leonard Marcus and Eric McNulty – You’re It. Crisis, Change, and How to Lead When It Matters Most
By Piotr Koryński, for MFC CEO FORUM "It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about the serious problems afflicting the world and I tell myself; ‘I must tal
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Work from Home – Good Tips
By Kinga Dąbrowska How to Work From Home Effectively [1] Work from home (WFH) requires a high level of self-organization and self-motivation skills from each one of us. For
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SME Financial Health Scorecard Summary
The paper presents the concept of financial health for small businesses and describes the MFC’s approach to constructing a comprehensive measure of financial health. First, the p
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Financial Inclusion Compass 2018: e-MFP Survey of Financial Inclusion Trends
The European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) has launched the Financial Inclusion Compass 2018 – its new paper on emerging short, medium and long-term trends in the financial inc
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The Universal Standards for Social Performance Management – Where do we go from here?
[divider] The Microfinace Centre, the CERISE and the SPTF in cooperation with e-MFP Making Microfinance Responsible (MIR) Action Group have published brief "The Un
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Financial Inclusion in the Digital Age
Many households and small businesses in emerging markets have no or very limited access to formal financial services. Even in developed countries, they only have access to a limite
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Current State of the Microfinance Sector in Kazakhstan: 149 organizations are operating
[divider] [divider] According to the register of microfinance organizations (MFIs) of the National Bank of the Republic of Kazakhstan (NB RK) on January 1, 2018 149 organiz
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Social Performance Management in Microfinance: Infographic Report
[divider] Social performance management (SPM) refers to the systems that organizations use to achieve their stated social mission. As a part of Microfinance Centres’ ongoing eff
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Watch and listen again to recent Webinars!
[divider] Microfinance & Business start-ups: Review of the current practice in Europe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT8iJWZGxZE [divider] Mikfrofinans Norge m
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Case studies
[divider] Supporting “generation start-up”: Opportunities for Montenegro This case note presents our research findings and analysis on the start-up enterprise landsca
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Research results
[divider] Microfinance in Europe. Social Performance Management Report The Report presents current state of social performance practices of European microfinance se
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Policy Papers 2009-2016
MFC Policy Paper No.5: Demystifying the role of microfinance in job creation The paper discusses the role of microfinance in job creation through self-employment and
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Edukacja Finansowa w Polsce
[divider] [divider] Od 2003 r., w MFC zrealizowaliśmy ponad 50 projektów w 22 krajach. Projekty realizowane w Polsce są naszym laboratorium - ich wynikami dzielimy
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Useful resources
[divider] Good Return: Short Introduction to Universal Standards for SPM [embed]https://youtu.be/CZJhAakx-4Q[/embed] Watch this video in French and Spanish! [toggle tit
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Tools for MFIs
[divider] Social Performance Management in Microfinance: Guidelines 2005 Social Performance Management in Microfinance: Guidelines 2005 [in Russian] Entering New Mark
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