Impact investment and finance
Millions of people and businesses worldwide don’t benefit from financial products and access to capital. For development to be sustainable, businesses need investment to catalyse growth in the economy and people need access to financial services to build resilience and fund life goals, such as education or establishing businesses.
Development finance institutions and private investors are increasingly providing finance to businesses operating in developing and emerging markets to generate both development impact and financial returns. In addition, low-income populations are still underserved by formal financial providers and many still do not have access to informal savings and lending mechanisms, such as savings groups.
We provide evidence on what works in financial inclusion and impact investing, assessing whether investments are additional to the market, mobilisation of finance and development impact and generating learning on what works in supporting poor people to access and use savings and lending mechanisms.
Project
Evaluation of the Dutch Development Finance Institution – FMO
Development Finance Institutions (DFIs) are government-backed institutions that invest returnable capital into the private...
Project
Learning Partner for the Financial Sector Deepening Trust, Tanzania
The Financial Sector Deepening Trust in Tanzania (FSDT) adopts a market development approach towards addressing systemic...
Project
Evaluation of the development impact of CDC’s infrastructure portfolio
In developing and emerging markets, investments in infrastructure, such as renewable energy, roads, ports and telecoms, can...
Project
Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab
The Savings Learning Lab support learning among the Foundation’s savings sector portfolio programmes and the wider sector...
Publications
Report
Leveraging high-performing agents to deliver customer value
Throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, innovation is transforming how people conduct financial transactions and live their lives.
Report
Savings evidence map synthesis report summary: 2020 update
Itad has developed the evidence map presented in this document as part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab.
Report
Savings evidence map synthesis report: 2020 update
Itad has developed the evidence map presented in this document as part of the Mastercard Foundation Savings Learning Lab.
Report
Expanding Financial Inclusion in Africa
This brief describes the findings of an ex-post evaluation of the Mastercard Foundation-funded Expanding Financial Inclusion...
Blogs and news
Blog
SEEP 2020 Conference: What I learnt about digital Savings Groups
SEEP 2020 was my first virtual conference. While I participated in countless webinars and online discussions, this five-day...
Blog
Maintaining a critical link to last-mile customers: Challenges and opportunities facing financial service agents during COVID-19
Agents are a critical last-mile link to financial services for lower-income households and micro- and small enterprises,...
News
Itad at SEEP 2020: Disruptive collaboration
Join us for the SEEP Annual Conference, which will be taking place entirely online this year. The 2020 conference theme is...
News
Webinar to share insights on savings and retail banking in Africa
An upcoming webinar, taking place on 11 August and hosted by the SEEP Network and the Mastercard Savings Learning Lab, will...