Financial Inclusion

Ranked across 18 different indicators, these MFIs scored the highest on 60 Decibels' 2022 Microfinance Index.

Since its founding, VisionFund has focused on serving women borrowers to uplift children out of poverty. Between September 2021 and September 2022, 60 Decibels interviewed 2,500+ clients, supporting 10,000+ children, across Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Mongolia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Guatemala, Mexico, and Rwanda.

60 Decibels surveyed around 4,000 emerging consumers across eight emerging markets to build LeapFrog's Emerging Wealth and Health Index, a fascinating survey of the world's impact investing needs in two key sectors.

What we learned from the people ONI's entrepreneurs serve.

A social performance report of 72 MFI organizations, collected through the voices of 17,956 clients.

A recent study of microfinance borrowers shows that, on the whole, their loans led to improvements in their standard of living. But the impact also depended on the region and country those people inhabit.

We surveyed vaccinators who participated in the polio campaigns in Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia, and Republic of the Congo.

By Lindsay Smalling

More than 25 Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) came together during the pandemic to build recovery programs that expanded access to credit for un- and under-banked small businesses.