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Transforming Lives with Financial Inclusion
When disaster strikes, the difference between a shock and a crisis is preparedness.
As El Niño-driven droughts and intensifying hurricane seasons push millions into crisis, one question is reshaping disaster finance: what if communities built financial resilience before the storm hits?
In this episode of Inclusive Finance Frontiers, we explore two pioneering models—from Barbados and the Horn of Africa—proving that preparation can mean the difference between a shock and a crisis.
Listen to the full episode: https://cgap.pub/4hkRedZ
Aggregate data can hide how customer groups access, use, and benefit from financial services.
Our new guide helps authorities improve customer visibility, identify risks, and act + the accompanying CGAP LENS turns the framework into practice with 230+ indicators.
More: https://cgap.pub/4rF6wO8
09/28/2026
Mobilizing more adaptation finance is only part of the challenge. The harder question is how do we ensure it reaches frontline communities?
CGAP and The Adaptation Fund answer five frequently asked questions about financing locally led adaptation and explain how inclusive finance could help channel more climate finance to the people who need it most.
Watch: https://youtu.be/1p4Ggh8uiYA
We answer five questions about locally led climate adaptation As global temperatures rise and climate-related shocks and stresses...
What if one of the biggest risks to carbon project integrity isn't technical—but social?
Women are often overlooked despite playing a critical role in delivering mitigation outcomes. CGAP's Max Mattern explains why at .
Read more: https://cgap.pub/4pjraC9
09/23/2026
What does it take to move from access to outcomes?
Over 3 years, our Financial Inclusion 2.0 initiative built evidence, tools & practical guidance to answer that question.
Explore the collection: https://cgap.pub/4rroZh6
For carbon project developers, buyers, and funders: inclusive finance is an untapped tool.
New testimonials from Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) & Value Network Ventures (VNV) pioneering carbon project in show why it must be built in from the start.
Read the story here: https://cgap.pub/4ycRxxs
09/21/2026
Despite years of research, big questions remain about how microfinance impacts borrowers across different contexts. To help answer them, CGAP introduced the CHIPS Data Set (Credit’s Heterogeneous Impact Pathways Study) along with Innovations for Poverty Action and Northwestern University's Global Poverty Research Lab (GPRL).
By combining and re-analyzing randomized control trial data, CHIPS allows researchers and decision-makers to:
➡ Look beyond average impacts to see who benefits most (and who doesn’t)
➡ Explore the underlying mechanisms and pathways driving financial
➡ Inform smarter, more targeted financial inclusion strategies
This is a major resource for evidence-based decision-making in financial inclusion, development economics, or impact investing.
Read the blog: https://cgap.pub/4h0Upav
09/17/2026
When more people gain access to financial services, are they becoming more financially secure?
Financial health is about being able to manage everyday expenses, cope with unexpected shocks, pursue goals, and feel confident about your finances. These are outcomes that financial services and policies should help support.
Measuring them helps financial sector authorities identify which groups are struggling and where policy or supervisory attention may be needed.
Two new CGAP publications offer practical guidance:
✅ Measuring Financial Health: A Framework sets out six areas of measurement and 17 indicators, with guidance on using surveys and regulatory data.
✅ The accompanying high-level note draws on the framework to explain its policy relevance and practical starting points for senior decision-makers.
The note makes the case for action; the working paper provides the detail needed to implement it.
Swipe through the carousel for the main points, then explore the publications: https://cgap.pub/4gYaT3e
CGAP's podcast, Inclusive Finance Frontiers, is back. 🎙
Agentic AI, stablecoins, inclusive insurance, pensions for informal workers—and the questions they raise for vulnerable communities.
New limited series, new episodes every two weeks.
Listen: https://cgap.pub/podcast
"1.3 billion adults remain financially excluded, typically because they lack money, identification, trust, or a combination of all three. When looking at stablecoins, we need to ask if they are really addressing these barriers, and how."
CGAP's Ivo Jeník explains what is needed to build a financial system that is more inclusive than the current one.
And for more on how Local Currency Stablecoins could add value to financial inclusion efforts, check out our blog post: https://cgap.pub/4xgJlvA
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