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Emerging Insight: Blended finance: When to use which instrument?

Emerging Insight: Equipping and enticing cooperatives to offer insurance

The ILO shares its knowledge on financing the social and solidarity economy (SSE) with its Constituents in Iran

The ILO COOP manager sent a video message for the 4th edition of the international webinar on cooperative experiences organized by the Ministry of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare on March 8, 2022.

Paving the road to financial inclusion for rural workers in Nepal

In remote areas of Nepal, rural communities, and especially the most disadvantaged and marginalized groups, do not have access to formal financial services. However, the Strengthening National Rural Transport Programme took up the challenge of...

Social Finance Podcast - Episode 5 - Jane Portas on 6 Moments That Matter & Insuring Women’s Futures

Transcript for the Social Finance Podcast episode "Jane Portas on 6 Moments That Matter & Insuring Women’s Futures".

Digitally and financially empowered MSMEs in Uruguay – Lesson learnt from a successful collaboration with ANDE during the COVID-19 pandemic

Micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) are the main sources of employment worldwide. However, access to adequate financial services is a key challenge to their development. The ILO believes that financial education is one path to support MSMEs....

Emerging Insight: Shifting staff mind-sets around loan repayments

ILO builds capacities of financial service providers to expand the scope and market of their services to forcibly displaced and host...

With the support of the Government of the Netherlands, the initiative seeks to contribute to devising durable solutions for forcibly displaced and host communities in Iraq through improving their financial inclusion and opportunities for more and...

Emerging Insight: The best of 2021

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Plenary Session 4: Financial mechanisms for innovative SSE ecosystems

12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 6: SSE, Local Economic Development and social innovation

Social Finance Podcast - Episode 4 - Pushing the frontier: impact investing for decent work

Transcript for the Social Finance Podcast episode "Pushing the frontier: impact investing for decent work".

Social Finance Podcast - Episode 3 - Going digital with inclusive insurance

Transcript for the Social Finance Podcast episode "Going digital with inclusive insurance".

Agence Française de Développement Group and the ILO join hands to provide access to inclusive insurance for the most vulnerable

Agence Française de Développement (AFD) and its subsidiary Proparco have recently signed two new projects in partnership with the ILO, which is recognized for its expertise in inclusive insurance.

COVID-19 and agricultural investments in Africa: the year 2020 in review

The ILO’s Social Finance Programme has collaborated with the Africa Agriculture and Trade Investment Fund (AATIF) since 2012, developing knowledge to improve the social impact of agricultural investments. In this article, we reflect on the last 12...

Emerging Insight: Exploring digital solutions in Mexico

Emerging Insight: Using the right risk management tools for agri-SMEs to address COVID-19 and future resilience

Convention 190 in action: preventing harassment of workers in Japanese banks

Labour banks (“Rokin Banks”) in Japan have been promoting workers’ access to finance for many years. They have also been in the vanguard when it comes to adopting international standards around workplace violence and harassment. Rokin Banks modelled...

The ILO and the Agence Française de Développement launch partnership to implement risk management solutions for small enterprises and...

The International Labour Organization is launching a partnership with the Agence Française de Développement to implement risk management solutions for small enterprises and low-income households in Africa. The project will explore the potential for...

Emerging Insight: Making the right tweaks to provide effective emergency loans