The Microfinance Index is a groundbreaking financial inclusion initiative that provides high-quality, comparable impact data for the microfinance industry, driven entirely by client voices. This annual initiative has expanded to collect more than 1 million unique global data points in 2023.

In partnership with Good Energies, the Inclusive Energy Opportunity is back in 2024 to provide support and insights for 10 energy start-ups.

The 60 Decibels Research Operations (RO) team is the backbone of our data collection process. Our network of 1,200+ local Research Assistants speak more than 195 languages and have conducted phone surveys in 82 countries to date.

As of June 24, 2021, this dashboard presents what we heard from over 6,100 Kenyan farmers, roughly 500 each month from June 2020 through May 2021.

In 2020 we spoke to 50,712 people in 32 countries (Brazil, Cote d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Myanmar, Nigeria, Paraguay, the Philippines, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, United States and Zambia) about how COVID-19 has affected their lives.