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Dear RFILC members,
Our October’s insight issue will start by focusing on the latest publication from the Rural Finance Best Practices Project (RuFBeP) by the Asia-Pacific Rural and Agricultural Credit Association (APRACA) and IFAD on how information and communication technology (ITC) networks in China and India make the agricultural value chain significantly more efficient. This document spotlights how Nxin Internet Technology Co. Ltd. and Ant Financial have developed ICT interventions to the Chinese agricultural value chains. It also highlights the role of technological platform SourceTrace and National Collateral Management Services Ltd. (NCML), a collateral management company in India in supporting smallholder farmers to improve their participation in value chain development.
Secondly, the 6th World Congress on Rural and Agricultural Finance (12-13 November 2019, New Delhi, India) will also be able to provide pathways to all stakeholders for extending improved and efficient financial services to rural and agricultural sectors. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the congress will aim to address the opportunities, gaps and priority actions for developing sustainable and viable financial services and investments with actionable insights on rural financial services as a viable business strategy and as a meaningful contribution to the inclusive growth across the globe.
Additional guidance is also available from the Centre for Financial Inclusion at Accion (CFI) and DLA Piper/New Perimeter, which produced a “Handbook on Consumer Protection for Inclusive Finance.” The publication is a practical resource for regulators and policymakers on effective legal and regulatory frameworks to protect low-income consumers. It expands upon a previous document, the “Client Protection Principles: Model Law and Commentary for Financial Consumer Protection (Model Legal Framework),” to reflect updated digital credit standards from the Smart Campaign. It also reflects on new and emerging guidance from international organizations and collaborative working groups, and consultations with a broad range of experts regarding the unique characteristics of digital finance services (DFS), with an emphasis on digital credit.
Lastly, with a view to enhancing financial service providers’ institutional policies and performance, we would like to share with you a UNCDF-led “Gender Self-Assessment Toolkit for Financial Service Providers.” The toolkit aims to increase targeted outreach to women clients through gender-sensitive products and services, as well as promoting workforce gender diversity in management and leadership.
With best regards,
The RFILC Editorial Team

- West Africa Capital Market Conference (WACMAC)
- Impact Insurance Forum 2019
- 15th International Conference on Inclusive Insurance – Coping with climate risk
- FOROMIC 2019
- Webinar: What Makes a Fintech Inclusive
- What’s Next for MIX Market: The Foundational Dataset Moves to the World Bank’s Data Catalog

- The moment of truth: Claims management in inclusive insurance (Uganda)
- The moment of truth: Claims management in inclusive insurance (Rwanda)
- Savings Groups Digitization and Financial Linkages
- International Program on Inclusive Banking & Finance
- Back to Boulder: Enhancing Strategic Relevance in Microfinance (B2B)
- Strategic Management for Microfinance Practitioners
- Certificate in Law and Regulation of Inclusive Finance

- Digital Financial Services Measurement Framework
- The Future of G2P Payments: Expanding Customer Choice
- Moving Proximity From Critical Issue to Addressable Challenge
- Report of the Expert Workshop on Guidelines for Micro-finance, Credit and Insurance for Small-scale Fisheries in Asia
- Handbook on Consumer Protection for Inclusive Finance
- State of the Digital Financial Services Market in Zambia, 2018
- Enabling Policy and Regulation: Leaving No One Behind in the Digital Era
- Testing the Model of Agency Banking with Ecobank in Benin
- Gender Self-Assessment Toolkit for Financial Service Providers
- Building Cross-Sector Partnerships to Amplify Impact
- Deposit Insurance Treatment of E-Money
- Risk-Based Customer Due Diligence: Regulatory Approaches
- Strengthening Capacity through an Internal Financial Inclusion CoP
- Mainstreaming Financial Inclusion through Demonstration Projects
- Engaging with Country Offices to Embed Digital Finance
- Small and Medium Enterprises Guidebook
- Blended Concessional Finance: The Rise of Returnable Capital Contributions
- Fintech, Inclusive Growth and Cyber Risks: A Focus on the MENAP and CCA Regions
- Climate change as a source of financial risk
- Expanding Rural Finance Project – Mexico
- Research Series Issue 40: Local-economy impacts of cash crop promotion
- Promoting Small and Medium-sized Enterprise (SME) Competitiveness in Africa: Data for de-risking investment
- Case Brief: CIF Vie

- New International Finance Corporation Loan to Help Homeowners and Micro Enterprises in Tajikistan
- Leveraging National Statistics Agencies and Country-Owned Surveys for Financial Inclusion Measurement: The Case of Ethiopia
- Eswatini and IFAD partner to boost inclusive financial services for smallholder farmers
- Pathways for rural youth to financial inclusion
- Small credits foster rural entrepreneurship in Guinea
- Responsible Lending: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Microfinance