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Webinar: From Insight to Action — Inside Estímulo’s Customer-Led Approach to MSE Lending in Brazil

We partnered with Estímulo to interview over 400 MSE borrowers and non-borrowers across Brazil. Lucas Conrado joins Carla Grados Villamar for a conversation on what the data revealed, and the concrete changes they made in response.

Strive Women: Insights on Cybersecurity and Digital Risk

What 1,017 women entrepreneurs in Pakistan, Peru, and Vietnam told us about digital scams and fraud, from protective habits to recovery and financial resilience.

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders (NextBillion)

60 Decibels interviewed over 400 Estímulo loan applicants — both borrowers and non-borrowers. The findings highlight the impact of Estímulo’s model, but also reveal gaps that the organisation is now working to address.

Beyond the Finish Line: Long-Term Impact of TechnoServe’s ITE and EMERGE Programs

Explore this in-depth look at how TechnoServe entrepreneurship programs in Latin America impacted business survival, revenue, and job creation–years after they ended.

A missing middle for impact measurement?

Meeting the $106B ag-SME financing gap has the potential to positively impact millions of smallholder farmers. But, much like the financing itself, measuring impact in the missing middle is challenging.

Striving to Thrive: The State of Indonesian MSEs in 2026

60 Decibels spoke with owners, senior executives, directors, or managers of 832 micro and small enterprises in Indonesia. The businesses that participated are dispersed across location, size, sector, tenure, and gender of business owners.

Striving to Thrive: Czech MSEs in 2025

In partnership with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth program - Strive Czechia – we've explored technology, gender, MSEs perceptions, access, and more.

How Unilever’s Distributive Trade Digitization is Transforming Small-Scale Retail Businesses

Distributive Trade Digitization (DTD) provides access to business-to-business (B2B) apps for small-scale retailers in Unilever’s retail value chain to order their products at a time and any place that is convenient for them.

Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur Program Is Moving in the Right Direction – with Room to Get Better

Syngenta Foundation's Agri-Entrepreneur program now serves more than a million Indian smallholders. That sounds impressive, but what do these farmers think of the services provided? How is the program improving their lives? We recently asked 455 of them.

With data-driven insights, 60 Decibels is helping Unilever advance its livelihood-development programs with SMEs

The data collected through the Lean Data surveys help shape the strategy to drive social impact in Unilever’s value chain.

CARE International Aggregate Lean Data Report

This specialized lean impact study across Vietnam, Pakistan, and Peru measures core business themes and captures the impact of the CARE Women’s Entrepreneurship program.

How successful were CDFIs in helping California businesses rebound from COVID?

The California Rebuilding Fund loans served as a critical capital injection for many small businesses in the wake of the pandemic. In a report from 60 Decibels, over three quarters of surveyed owners said their stress levels related to finances have decreased because the support from CDFIs.

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Webinar: From Insight to Action — Inside Estímulo’s Customer-Led Approach to MSE Lending in Brazil

Strive Women: Insights on Cybersecurity and Digital Risk

Entrepreneur-Friendly Inclusive Finance: A Survey of Brazilian MSMEs Highlights Key Lessons for Lenders (NextBillion)

Beyond the Finish Line: Long-Term Impact of TechnoServe’s ITE and EMERGE Programs

A missing middle for impact measurement?

Striving to Thrive: The State of Indonesian MSEs in 2026

Striving to Thrive: Czech MSEs in 2025

How Unilever’s Distributive Trade Digitization is Transforming Small-Scale Retail Businesses

Syngenta Foundation’s Agri-Entrepreneur Program Is Moving in the Right Direction – with Room to Get Better

With data-driven insights, 60 Decibels is helping Unilever advance its livelihood-development programs with SMEs

CARE International Aggregate Lean Data Report

How successful were CDFIs in helping California businesses rebound from COVID?

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