All news: social finance

Sri Lankan women improve their livelihoods through cooperatives in the groundnut value chain

Two women producers supported by the ILO LEED+ project share their stories on how they increased their income through cooperatives in the groundnut value chain.

The SSE Momentum: Finance for Inclusion and the Future of Work

The international conference brought together around 100 participants to discuss the role of the social and solidarity economy (SSE) and supporting financial mechanisms in promoting decent work and sustainable development.

Soft skills and financial education: benefits for job seekers

Civil society in Tunisia is constantly changing. Because of this, the public employment service needs to meet the needs of job seekers and of enterprises with concrete actions.

Emerging Insight: Overcoming health care and geographical challenges in Indonesia through a digital solution

Emerging Insight: Using PACE to improve products

Emerging Insight: Client personas can help to organize your data and serve real people

The ILO Entrepreneurship Trainers Academy: launch of the new financial education track

Social Finance started working on financial education in 2006 with a small activity promoting financial literacy in Cambodia. Today, our financial education team aims to help people make informed financial choices and ultimately change their...

Financial education through radio in Zimbabwe

Shalom Govero is a business development manager and financial education trainer at Mustard Seed Advisory, a development finance consulting firm in Zimbabwe. She is an ILO financial education trainer who is very passionate about the topic. In this...

ApexFinCoop - Strengthening the apex organization of financial cooperatives in Nepal

The ILO, the ITC-ILO and the FAO jointly organized a training workshop for the Nepal Federation of Savings and Credit Unions (NEFSCUN) towards promoting financial inclusion and inclusive economic development.

Five insights to developing a Social Economy Policy in South Africa

Social Economy

Social Finance celebrates the ILO centenary!

The International Labour Organization turns 100 this year, and Social Finance joins in on the celebrations!

Emerging Insight: Developing partnerships with governments to offer agriculture insurance

Emerging Insight: Digitization of renewal processes

Emerging Insight: The potential of innovation labs for inclusive insurance

Emerging Insight: A decade of Impact Insurance

Emerging Insight: The future of impact insurance

Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

CLIMBS: Extending mutual protection and building resilience in the Philippines

“Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this...

Emerging Insight: Insights from Britam’s 10-year journey

Social protection

Countries urged to act on universal social protection

To end poverty, ensure social protection for all and make good on international commitments made in 2015, countries around the world have been urged at a ministerial-level conference at the International Labour Organization to take five actions...

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High Level Conference - Together to achieve Universal Social Protection by 2030