Financial Inclusion Archives

The MFI Index

Explore four years of global microfinance insights. Each edition of the Index offers a look at client outcomes, trends in financial inclusion, and how financial service providers are evolving to better serve their clients — all grounded in direct feedback from tens of thousands of borrowers globally.

60dB Microfinance Awards

Introducing the Social Impact Award winners of the Microfinance Indexes, the world’s largest financial inclusion study grounded in customer voice.

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.

From Credit to Confidence: How Financial Institutions Are Strengthening Client Resilience

As climate shocks and economic volatility increase, 60 Decibels is helping partners measure how their services are building client resilience.

UNICEF and partners bring child-lens investing to the forefront of global financial inclusion (OCHA)

UNICEF USA and 60 Decibels, in collaboration with VisionFund and Global Partnerships, have developed a child-lens impact assessment approach designed to measure the impact that investments have on children.

VisionFund FAST Aggregate Results

Discover how VisionFund's Finance Accelerating Savings Group Transformation (FAST) programme—a savings group lending initiative—is contributing to stronger financial resilience in Sub-Saharan Africa.

From Payday to Any Day: How Earned Wage Access is Reshaping Financial Habits

We conducted research with four earned wage access (EWA) providers to explore how employees engage with EWA, its effects on financial well-being, and its implications for employers.

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

Lindsay Smalling (60dB) and Erin Egan (UNICFEF USA's Impact Fund for Children) explore where impact on children is already apparent in three major sectors: off-grid energy, agriculture, and microfinance.

Webinar: Inclusión financiera en Latinoamérica

Acompáñanos para explorar los resultados globales del Índice de Microfinanzas 2024, un estudio indispensable para quienes trabajan en inclusión financiera.

¿Cómo las microfinanzas están transformando vidas?

Descubre los hallazgos del Índice Global de Microfinanzas 2024.

Webinar: Insights from the 2024 Microfinance Index Top Performers

A unique opportunity to hear from a selection of our Social Impact Award winners from this year's Microfinance Index, who shared an inside look at the factors that have contributed to their top performance in their region.

Webinar: Exploring Insights from the 2024 Microfinance Index

Join us for an inside look at the key findings from 60 Decibels' 2024 MFI Index Report, including new data on Client Protection, Group Lending, Gender, Climate Resilience, and more.

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The MFI Index

60dB Microfinance Awards

The 2025 MFI Index

From Credit to Confidence: How Financial Institutions Are Strengthening Client Resilience

UNICEF and partners bring child-lens investing to the forefront of global financial inclusion (OCHA)

VisionFund FAST Aggregate Results

From Payday to Any Day: How Earned Wage Access is Reshaping Financial Habits

Investors find child-lens impact through interviews with customers (ImpactAlpha)

Webinar: Inclusión financiera en Latinoamérica

¿Cómo las microfinanzas están transformando vidas?

Webinar: Insights from the 2024 Microfinance Index Top Performers

Webinar: Exploring Insights from the 2024 Microfinance Index

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