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Stories of Change
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Blog
- With training and financial access, women refugees achieve a lot with a little.
- Why Grameen Foundation is joining the ILO’s Alliance 8.7 to End Child Labor.
- The continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmers in the Philippines.
- Why do we focus on empowering poor women?
- Preparing community health workers to deploy the COVID-19 vaccine: Five lessons on digital training learned from the Ebola crisis.
- Statement on India and COVID-19
- Can financial service providers help reduce intimate partner violence?
- Maps to the Future: How can soil map data be used by smallholder cocoa farmers?
- Results of Grameen Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief Program
- Help during COVID crisis becomes ladder up to financial inclusion for poor women
- 'On the Basis of Sex'
- From Ebola to COVID-19: Arming frontline workers with truth
- What is $100 amid a global pandemic? ‘The answer to a prayer.’
- Expanding digitization to the poor inspires hope for a glimmer of silver lining amid COVID-19 pandemic.
- COVID-19 in the Philippines: A Q&A with Community Agent Jenny Gramo.
- Grameen Foundation creates “COVID-19 Emergency Relief.”
- A lever for change.
- WomenLink Philippines is catalyzing economic empowerment among poor and low-income women.
- Grameen and Digipay partner to teach financial literacy to empower women.
- Reflections on the latest studies on microcredit.
- Winning the war against Ebola requires a two-front battle.
- Lessons in designing online education to empower women.
- These Ideas must die: Notions impeding financial inclusion progress.
- A Ugandan refugee camp hosts potential for financial inclusion.
- How can we strengthen women’s economic empowerment in Central America? With a $368K matching fund and wrap-around support.
- An entrepreneur by any other name.
- Coffee, cocoa, and the cutting edge.
- This International Women’s Day, let’s use technology to advance #balanceforbetter.
- Making every breakthrough count.
- Sindhu: A woman empowered through financial services.
- End hunger, support women and smallholder farmers.
- Empowering the new data citizens.
- Paving the way for data-driven agriculture: Who's your farmer?
- Are savings groups for vulnerable populations a good idea?
- Delicate, yet resilient: Women’s savings groups weather a drought in Burkina Faso.
- Educating tomorrow’s leaders starts with her financial breakthrough today.
- India’s biometrics payment system shows benefits and challenges in project for women’s financial inclusion.
- Can we end poverty and preserve the planet?
- Africa’s growing agri-tech calls for rapid policy response.
- Big data and smallholder farmers.
- What boosts gender equality in developing countries?
- United in the Fight Against Poverty
Notes From the Field
- Success Story Featuring F2F Volunteer Annette Acosta and Household Multi-Purpose Cooperative
- F2F COCOS: Amy Conard
- F2F COCOS: Annette Acosta
- F2F COCOS persists
- Stanford University student empowers a social development organization in the Philippines amid the Covid-19 pandemic
- Putting my skills to work to help unbanked Kenyan farmers
- Helping the Foundation for Rural & Industrial Equipment for National Development, a FRIEND in need
- Volunteering my skills to improve coconut food safety and quality in the Philippines
- Volunteering to improve the finances of at-risk coconut farmers through Farmer to Farmer COCOs
- Collaborating for Capital to Launch Grameen Impact India
- Four Global Fellows, Four Months, Formidable Impact
Press Releases
- Digital advisory services for smallholder families in Africa and Asia
- More than 3,400 entrepreneurs in the Philippines receive relief and recovery support through Grameen Foundation ‘COVID-19 RELIEF.'
- Grameen Foundation plays important role in development of Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies’ newly approved Ebola vaccine
- Grameen Foundation, J. P. Morgan Deliver COVID-19 RELIEF in the Philippines
- Celo Foundation Announces Alliance for Prosperity to Build Financial Tools for 5.6B Smartphone Owners
- Grameen to lead India Women's Economic Empowerment program
- Grameen Foundation to design mobile financial and business curriculum to empower women entrepreneurs in Latin America
- Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, founder of BRAC, passes away
- In midst of rural poverty, 1.3 million people gain access to financial services through women's networks
- Grameen Foundation Launches Farmer-to-Farmer in Kenya
- Grameen Foundation Launches Farmer-to-Farmer Program in Colombia
- Youth Champions for Digital Finance launches in rural India
- Digital and Satellite Technology Program Launches to Support Ghana’s Smallholder Cocoa Farmers
- Female shop owners catalyzing financial inclusion in the Philippines
- Grameen Foundation to Launch Workplace Protection Project for Women’s Economic Empowerment Initiatives
- Grameen Foundation Delivering Family Planning Education in Bénin
- Accenture Labs and Grameen Foundation India Use Emerging Technologies to Help Increase Adoption of Financial Services Among Low-Income Women
- Grameen Foundation and Partners Launch Global Initiative: Women and Girls Empowered
- Grameen Foundation and Partners bringing satellite technology to benefit smallholder cocoa farmers in Ghana
- Grameen Foundation to launch WomenLink II in India and the Philippines
- As India transforms financial services for low-income communities, new report tackles pervasive problem of low account usage
- Women in rural India register dramatic gains in nutrition, food security
- Digital Toolkit to Give Tanzania Smallholder Farmers Access to Finance, Farm Supplies and Training
- Grameen Foundation and Freedom from Hunger Join Forces to Form a Unified Global Organization
Resources
- Evidence Review on the Role of Male Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
- Leapfrogging with technology: introduction of a monitoring platform to support a large-scale Ebola vaccination program in Rwanda
- Building Resilient Micro-Enterprises: Grameen's COVID-19 RELIEF Program
- Women's Entrepreneurship in Timor-Leste: An Assessment of Opportunities, Barriers, and a Path Forward
- The Continuing Toll of the COVID-19 Pandemic to the F2F COCOS Host Organizations
- WomenLink II: Catalyzing Women's Economic Empowerment through Community Agents and Expansion of Digital Financial Services to Low-Income Women
- Improvements to Female Autonomy and Household Decision-Making Power from an Intervention Targeting Improved Food Security: A Gender-Based Analysis of the Rajasthan Nutrition Project
- Evidence Review on Violence against Women and Girls (VAWG) and its relationship with Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE)
- Map to the Future (M2F): Integrating soil mapping into cocoa farm development plans in Ghana
- Reducing Incidence of Child Labor and Harmful Conditions of Work in Economic Strengthening Initiatives (RICHES) - Philippines (Tagalog)
- Proyecto RICHES para la reducción de la incidencia del trabajo infantil y las condiciones de trabajo inaceptables en las iniciativas de empoderamiento económico
- FarmGrow Midline Survey Report
- Understanding Gender and Empowerment in Cocoa Farming Communities in the Brong Ahafo Region of Ghana: Baseline Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment
- Building Resilience in Burkina Faso: Understanding women’s empowerment through use of the project-level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro-WEAI)
- Mobile Training and Support (MOTS) Service: Umurinzi Campaign Program Post-Test Report
- Grameen "Do No Harm" and Safeguarding Framework
- FarmGrow: Farm Investment Plans for Smallholder Cocoa Farmers in Ghana Midline Assessment
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impact to Farmer-to-Farmer COCOS Host Organizations
- Poor women and usability of mobile financial services
- Women and Usability of Mobile Financial Services in Uganda
- Final Evaluation Report_MOTS Service for Community Health Workers in Bo and Kambia, Sierra Leone
- FINAL REPORT MOTS Costing Exercise
- RICHES Pre-Situational Analysis (PSA) Final Report
- FarmGrow Baseline Report 2.18.2020
- Mobile training and support (MOTS) service, using technology to increase Ebola preparedness of remotely-located community health workers (CHWs) in Sierra Leone
- WomenLink Phase 2: Baseline Report
- WomenLink Phase 2: Empowering Women Through Financial Inclusion in the Philippines
- WAGE Women and Girls Empowered Overview
- Women's Economic Empowerment in Honduras: Barriers, Opportunities, and A Path Forward, October 2019 (Key Findings)
- Women's Economic Empowerment in El Salvador: Barriers, Opportunities, and A Path Forward (Key Findings) October 2019
- Women’s Economic Empowerment in El Salvador: Barriers, Opportunities, and a Path Forward, October 2019 (Full Report)
- Women's Economic Empowerment in Honduras: Barriers, Opportunities, and A Path Forward, October 2019 (Full Report)
- Economic empowerment for women in Honduras
- Developing Next Generation Health Financing Instruments for Households: Drawing on Lessons Learned
- Building Resilience in Burkina Faso: Longitudinal Assessment Results
- Infographic: WomenLink Phase 1 in the Philippines
- Philippines WomenLink report
- Women’s Savings Groups for Better Reproductive Health in Bénin
- Building Resilience of Coconut Smallholder Farmers in the Philippines: Final Evaluation Report of the FarmerLink Program
- Mother and Child Health Program, India (MASS)
- Digital Farmer Profiles: Reimagining Smallholder Agriculture
- Impact: Digital loan for Kenya's Smallholder Farmers
- Use of Dental Health Services in Urban India
- Integrated Health and Microfinance in India, Volume III: Banking on Health
- Usability of Digital Financial Services in the Philippines
- Healthy Savings for Better Reproductive Health in Bénin: Client Outcomes Study Baseline Report
- Impact: Building Resilience in Burkina Faso
- Impact: Savings Groups for Reproductive Health in Bénin
- Impact:Mother and Child Health Project
- Breakthroughs in women’s empowerment: Decision-making power of women in microfinance and financial self-help groups in Jharkhand and West Bengal
- Breakthroughs for Healthy Birth: What “Health Diaries” tell us about financial and medical preparation for giving birth among women in West Bengal and Jharkhand
- Breakthroughs in Affordable Health Care: What ‘Health Diaries’ tell us about managing health care and costs among women in West Bengal and Jharkhand
- Healthy Mothers Make Healthy Communities: Research Brief
- Pro-WEAI Baseline Results from the initiative Building the Resilience of Vulnerable Communities in Burkina Faso (BRB)
- Impact: Rajasthan Nutrition Project
- Building Resilience in Burkina Faso: Impact Study Endline Results
- Data-Driven Agriculture: The future of smallholder farmer data management and use
- Catalyzing Financial Inclusion: The Case of Grameen Foundation’s Community Agent Network Program in the Philippines
- Community Agent Network for Financial Services: An Agent Manager’s Guide to Key Performance Indicators
- Using Digital Technology and Data to Strengthen the Resilience of Coconut Farmers
- Knowledge, Attitude and Practice Survey for Human-Elephant Conflict in Elephant Corridors
- Factors Associated with Food Insecurity among Female Savings Group Participants in Burkina Faso
- Protecting Savings Groups Reached Through High-Tech Channels: Guidance from the New Client Protection Principles for a Digital Savings Product
- Appraisal of the Agro-Tech Smart Extension Model in Ghana, Payment options and Challenges in ICT-enabled extension services delivery
- Understanding Gender Norms in Rural Burkina Faso: A Qualitative Assessment
- Nutrition at the Center: Client Outcomes of the Rajasthan Nutrition Project
- Factors Associated with Accessing Integrated Child Development Services (ICDS) Scheme Among Women in Rural Rajasthan, India
- Who Breastfeeds Among Women Living in Tribal Communities in Rural Rajasthan, India?
- Decoding Bank Account Usage by Low Income Segments: Placing Reality in Digital Ecosystem
- Empowering Her: Freedom from Hunger India Trust Annual Report 2016-17
- Rajasthan Nutrition Project: Integrating Financial, Agricultural, Nutrition Services and Gender: Baseline Report
- Rajasthan Nutrition Project Policy Brief
- Rajasthan Nutrition Project Technical Resource Guide
- Research Brief: Prevent Anemia for Better Health
- Towards Gender Transformative Food Security
- Leveraging Services to Create New Pathways
- Credit with Health Education in Benin
- Factors Associated with Food Insecurity among Women and Children in Rural Rajasthan
- Deconstructing Drop-Out: Uncovering the reasons behind attrition among village-banking microfinance clients
- Kalinga kay Inay: Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies. Program Evaluation
- When Dreamers become Leaders: Understanding a spectrum of needs among women entrepreneurs in Guatemala
- Resilience and Health Shocks: The Potential of Health Savings Accounts and Health Loans
- The Role of Financial Services in Building Household Resilience in Burkina Faso
- How do you know “Resilience” when you see it? Characteristics of Self-perceived Household Resilience among Rural Households in Burkina Faso
- Designing Financial Services to Respond to Household Shocks: A Case Study of RCPB’s Health Savings and Loan Product
- Measuring the Impact of Microfinance: Looking to the Future
- A New World for Agricultural Finance - Roundtable Excerpts
- Systematizing the Integration of Health and Microfinance in Peru
- Going Digital: How microfinance institutions can better serve their clients using mobile technology
- Using Mobile Technology to Strengthen Maternal Newborn and Child Health - Executive Summary
- Using Mobile Technology to Strengthen Maternal Newborn and Child Health
- Growth Guarantees Program, 2005-2015
- Grameen Microcredit to Grameen Kalyan Health Program for the Poor: Reasons for Optimism
- Village Phone Replication Manual
- Transforming Microfinance Institutions
- The Poor Always Pay Back: The Grameen II Story
- More Pathways Out of Poverty
- Compelling Returns: A Practical Guide to Socially Responsible Investing
- The Price of a Dream: The Story of the Grameen Bank
- Banker to the Poor: Microlending and the Battle Against World Poverty
- Small Loans, Big Dreams: How Nobel Prize Winner Muhammad Yunus and Microfinance Are Changing the World
- Tsunami Recovery: Rebuilding Aceh
- Building Social Business
- Grameen Guidelines
- Building Human Capital
- Healthy, Wealthy and Wise: How Microfinance Institutions Can Track the Health of Clients
- I am Saving—Lessons Learned from Implementation of Integrated Savings Services and Financial Education for Two Ecuadorian Credit Unions
- Scaling Digital Financial Services: Go-to-market Lessons
- Development of the Digital Financial Services Platform
- Kilimo Booster: Musoni Launches an Agricultural Loan for Kenya’s Smallholder Farmers
- Hurdling the Health Access Barrier
- Understanding Household Resilience of the Poor in Burkina Faso
- Pilot Project Report: Using Mobile Money to Link Savings Groups to Financial Institutions
- Opportunities for Increasing Access to Digital Finance in Nigeria
- Mobile Money in Nigeria: The User Experience
- Leveraging the Power of Women’s Groups and Financial Services to Improve Knowledge and Behaviors for Improved Child and Maternal Nutrition
- Lessons Learned, 2009-2014: Community Knowledge Worker Uganda Program
- Adding Health to Microfinance in the Andes
- Use of Mobile Financial Services Among Poor Women
- Applying Behavioral Economics to Improve Microsavings Outcomes
- Health and Microfinance Alliance in India
- Building Sustainable Business Models for Providing Financial Services to the Poor
- A Case Study on Channel Innovation
- Easypaisa: Overview of the Operational Model of Mobile Money Service Provision
- Microfinance: A Poverty Lens on Financial Inclusion
- Addressing Dormancy: Insights from the GFI Cashpor BC Project
- Operational Challenges of Business Correspondents
- Insights on Savings Behaviors of Clients
- Microfinance and Health Protection Program Global Overviews
- Best Practices In Mobile Microfinance
- Women, Mobile Phones and Savings Case Study
- Marie Stopes International Case Study
- MOTECH Lessons Learned
- Savings Volatility Analysis Case Study
- Mobile Applications to Deliver Extension to Remote Areas
- Why Not Add Health to Microfinance?!
- Poverty Outreach of Selected MFIs in the Philippines
- Health and Microfinance: Leveraging the Strengths of Two Sectors to Alleviate Poverty
- Information as Power: Data Analytics
- Health financing: A new role for microfinance institutions?
- Double Bottom Line Business Case
- Change Leadership Study
- Fonkoze PPI Mini Case Study
- Costs and Benefits of Microfinance Institutions Offering Health Protection Services to Clients
- Integrating Microfinance and Health Benefits, Challenges and Reflections for Moving Forward
- PT Ruma PPI Mini Case Study
- Leveraging Talent to Reach Strategic Objectives
- Improved Business Understanding Through Data Analytics
- Savings and the MFI Porfolio
- Koota PPI Mini Case Study
- Targeting the Poorest Case Study
- PRISMA PPI Case Study
- Banana Skins Review
- Integrating Microfinance and Health Strategies: Examining the Evidence to Inform Policy and Practice
- CARD PPI Mini Case Study
- Financial Literacy Pilot Report
- Volunteerism: A New Business Model for Scaling Microfinance and Technology for Development
- Grameen Foundation-Growth Guarantees Program
- Measuring the Impact of Microfinance
- Community Knowledge Worker Pilot Report
- Microfinance against malaria: Impact of Freedom from Hunger’s malaria education when delivered by rural banks in Ghana
- Climate Change and Microfinance
- Linking Health to Microfinance to Reduce Poverty
- Oikocredit Case Study
- NWTF PPI Case Study
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