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Stories of Change

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• COVID-19: Mohd Shahbuddin
• COVID-19: Elena Nayran
• COVID-19: Cristie Gravanza
• COVID-19: India's day laborers
• COVID-19: Rajiya Devi
• COVID-19: Dionicon
• COVID-19: Kristine Boniba
• COVID-19: India's rural handicraft workers
• COVID-19: India's migrant workers
• COVID-19: Dhaneshwar Mistri
• COVID:19: Nita Pachejo
• Comfort’s Story
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Blog

• Healthy, wealthy, and wise kids: Mitigating the risk of child labor through health financing.
• Grameen Mittras: Fostering financial independence, one woman at a time.
• Reducing gender-based violence for women entrepreneurs in northern Ghana.
• Dear Big Tech leaders: Instead of harvesting our data and launching yourselves into space, how about making life better on Earth?
• 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

• Cultural Marketing of the Coconut Oil Collective
• Farmer to Farmer (F2F) Philippines and Gender and Social Inclusion (GSI)
• Notes from the Field: Jay Ahuja
• F2F COCOS: Matthew Buonopane
• Farmer-to-Farmer: The advantages of remote volunteering.
• How can we encourage coconut growers to increase the scale of their enterprises?
• 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

• Grameen Foundation launches blockchain-enabled cash support and training program to help 800 Filipino workers hit hardest by COVID-19
• 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

• WomenLink Phase II Final Report
• Understanding female and male empowerment in Burkina Faso using the project‑level Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture Index (pro‑WEAI): a longitudinal study
• 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