Financial Inclusion Archives

What Borrowers’ Voices Reveal About the Child Impact of Financial Inclusion

New research explores how a child lens can reveal differences in how households experience financial services — from resilience and savings to education and wellbeing outcomes.

How Education Financing Is Changing Student Outcomes

We partnered with ErudiFi to hear directly from 301 borrowers in Indonesia and the Philippines about how education financing shapes their lives.

Webinar: Lo que nos dicen los clientes – Perspectivas del Índice de Microfinanzas 2025

Acompáñanos en una conversación sobre los hallazgos más recientes del Índice de Microfinanzas 2025, el mayor referente global de inclusión financiera basado en la voz de los clientes. Exploramos lo nuevo en esta edición y presentamos a los ganadores de los Premios de Impacto Social 2025.

Webinar: From Data to Impact – New Insights from the 2025 Microfinance Index

Join us for a deep dive into the latest findings from the 2025 MFI Index. We explore what’s new in this year’s report, highlight our 2025 Social Impact Awardees, and feature perspectives from participating FSPs and clients whose voices helped shape the Index.

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.

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What Borrowers’ Voices Reveal About the Child Impact of Financial Inclusion

How Education Financing Is Changing Student Outcomes

Webinar: Lo que nos dicen los clientes – Perspectivas del Índice de Microfinanzas 2025

Webinar: From Data to Impact – New Insights from the 2025 Microfinance Index

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)

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