Earlier this year, CGAP partnered with Consumers International, the global membership organization of consumer groups, to explore the current and potential status of consumer organizations in engaging in consumer financial protection. Consumers...
Access to electricity can be transformational, but only if people also have access to the appliances and technologies needed for its use. In Sub-Saharan Africa, only 1 in 3 households has a television, 1 in 6 has a refrigerator, and 1 in 9 owns a...
The Better Than Cash Alliance and CGAP are co-hosting a webinar on delivering government-to-person (G2P) payments in a way that expands choice while managing liquidity and cash-out in innovative ways.
How can digital financial services providers build viable cash-in/cash-out agent networks in rural areas? Remote areas pose special challenges for providers, as low population densities often mean low transaction volumes and weak incentives for...
Speakers from AFI, GIZ, and DEVCO shared lessons learned from supporting and facilitating public-private dialogue in a variety of markets and contexts.
On January 15, 2020, as part of CGAP’s global exploration of innovations in asset finance, we hosted a webinar on pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) smartphone financing featuring PayJoy’s Tom Jahnes.
In this webinar, expert panelists discussed key findings from CGAP’s research on rural agent networks, with a focus on emerging lessons for policy makers and regulators.
Speakers covered designing for and monitoring systemic change with the Adopt-Adapt-Expand-Respond (AAER) framework, and examined the systemic approach in action using real examples from Kenya and the Philippines.