Women’s Vital Role in the Off-Grid Energy Sector
New findings on the impact of off-grid energy on women featured in Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024.
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The 2025 MFI Index
The 2025 Microfinance Index is built on
interviews with 24,450 clients from
39 countries, representing
approximately 25 million global
microfinance borrowers.
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2024 Off-Grid Energy Social Impact Awards
Ranked across 3 areas in the Energy Impact Index, these energy organizations are the Social Impact Award winners featured in Why Off-Grid Energy Matters 2024.
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Transforming Nutrition Practices Among Smallholder Farmers in Africa
On behalf of IGNITE, 60dB conducted three studies to understand the effectiveness of nutrition training among the SAA farming communities.
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Sistema.bio India increases their customer satisfaction by almost 40 percent
60 Decibels conducted two Lean Data studies with Sistema.bio India in 2021 and 2023, and the results speak for themselves: the changes Sistema.bio made to both the product and customer service operations increased their impact and business performance.
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Exploring Earned Wage Access with Vui App
We worked with Vui App to collect data from end-users across six dimensions of financial inclusion to better understand their reach and impact.
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Rethinking Financial Inclusion: Amplifying the Voices of Savings Account Clients
As we prepare for the launch of the 2024 Microfinance Index, we're committed to further amplifying the voices of savings account clients.
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Boosting Dairy Farmer Resilience Through Digitization in Tunisia
By digitizing dairy farmers, MooMe improves access to and use of data throughout the value chain, improving advisory services, access to finance, and compliance risk management.
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Africa Enterprise Challenge Fund (AECF) Lean Data Insights
We've partnered with AECF since 2021 to gain a deeper understanding of how increased access to energy and adaptation technologies affects households’ quality of life, SMEs’ productivity, and creates new opportunities in rural economies.
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60dB’s 2023 Year in Review
2023 was 60 Decibels’ biggest year on record! To take a breath and reflect on all that was achieved, we’ve collated our top insights and findings of the year into our 2023 review.
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Why this Latin American venture fund is listening to customers to drive impact and returns
Throughout the last five years, while investing their first Fund, ALIVE has demonstrated that a deeper impact measurement strategy is not only attainable, but highly beneficial to all stakeholders.
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Insights from three top-performing financial service providers
60 Decibels' Microfinance Index Top Impact Awards are a recognition of top performance in delivering financial services and making a positive impact on the lives of their clients, relative to their peers. We asked 3 of our 2023 awardees to share insights into how their business operations have contributed to achieving top scores across multiple indicators – here's what they had to say!
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Listening to those in crisis: understanding perspectives on anticipatory action in Ethiopia
This blog presents findings from an assessment by 60 Decibels of UN OCHA's anticipatory actions, focused on how the assistance provided by FAO, UNFPA and UNICEF affected the target populations.
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