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The 2026 MFI Index

The 2026 Microfinance Index is built on interviews with 18,709 clients from 35 countries, representing approximately 22 million global microfinance borrowers.

60dB Microfinance Awards

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

Webinar: De los datos a la acción, ¿Qué sucede después de un estudio de impacto?

Darice Dee Gubbins Bryson (Credicorp) y Emiliano Mroue (Fibrazo), se unen a Carla Grados Villamar, para conversar sobre cómo convertir los resultados de un estudio de impacto en decisiones y acciones concretas.

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.

Origin: What 298 Women Told Us About Pelvic Floor Therapy

Pelvic floor physical therapy works — but too many women wait years to find it. We surveyed 298 Origin patients to understand the road to care, what changes when they get it, and what still stands in the way.

Babban Gona: Insights on Digital Payments for Nigerian Maize Farmers

Babban Gona, a social enterprise supporting smallholder farmers in Nigeria, pays farmers through company-issued prepaid cards held within farmer Trust Groups. We conducted phone surveys with 296 maize farmers receiving these payments. Here's what we found.

60dB Impact Ecosystem Map

Explore our free Impact Ecosystem Map to see who’s investing in whom across funds and portfolio companies. Identify co-investors, thematic clusters, and capital flows across the impact landscape in one interactive view.

Webinar: What Child Lens Investing Reveals About Financial Inclusion

Join 60 Decibels, UNICEF USA, Global Partnerships, VisionFund, and Accion for new research on what a child lens reveals about financial inclusion.

What If We’ve Been Measuring Supply Chain Risk All Wrong?

Three coffee traders, typically competitors, came together to answer one question: what is really happening to the farmers behind their beans?

Impact due diligence is the blind spot in impact investing (Pioneers Post)

If impact investment is about improving people’s lives, why are the voices of those people often absent from investment committee decisions? An article by Tom Adams and Louis Tran Van Lieu.

Bayer Crop Science: Better Life Farming India Impact Report

Bayer Crop Science's Better Life Farming programme is improving yields, incomes, and livelihoods for tomato farmers in India. But farmer feedback also points to where more support is needed — from field visits to soil testing. Here's what 275 farmers had to say.

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60dB Microfinance Awards

Webinar: De los datos a la acción, ¿Qué sucede después de un estudio de impacto?

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

Strive Women: Insights on Cybersecurity and Digital Risk

Origin: What 298 Women Told Us About Pelvic Floor Therapy

Babban Gona: Insights on Digital Payments for Nigerian Maize Farmers

60dB Impact Ecosystem Map

Webinar: What Child Lens Investing Reveals About Financial Inclusion

What If We’ve Been Measuring Supply Chain Risk All Wrong?

Impact due diligence is the blind spot in impact investing (Pioneers Post)

Bayer Crop Science: Better Life Farming India Impact Report

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