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Rural Finance and Investment Insights: September
Note from the editor
After the summer heat in August, can you feel a slight change in the air this month? Yet, this breeze has been delayed year by year due to climate change.
Climate change dramatically affects all sectors, including the agriculture and fishery sector, and its impacts result in disruptions to the vitality of rural livelihoods, ecosystems, and biodiversity. It has especially increased the hazardous conditions under which small-scale fishers work, as natural disasters become even more prevalent and destructive. Damage and loss of fishing craft and gear due to accidents and natural disasters threaten the livelihood of small-scale fishing communities.
In this month’s highlight, we prepared a list of publications and events to examine how different financial instruments could mitigate the climate change risks and their impact on rural livelihood.
Highlights of the month
Guidelines for increasing access of small-scale fisheries to insurance services
The webinar will have a discussion on the study of Current Review of Global Fisheries and Aquaculture Insurance, conducted by FAO across all the regions, which provides a framework to offer suitable services by insurance and fisheries stakeholders, to strengthen and increase the capacity of insurance service providers, fisher-folk organizations, NGO’s, and government agencies for providing insurance to small-scale fisheries.
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Lifting the Fog: ATLAS Data for Financial Inclusion
This webinar introduces ATLAS, a data platform which provides an all-in-one approach to data management in financial inclusion, from data reporting to analytics and benchmarking. Launched in 2020, ATLAS centralizes data from financial service providers on pricing, client protection, social and financial performance, providing a solution that helps make the financial inclusion industry accountable.
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Climate finance in the agriculture and land use sector – global and regional trends between 2000 and 2018
This report aims to increase the understanding of the climate finance trends in the agriculture and land-use sector. By looking at the source and geographical destination of resources, climate objectives, and gender sensitivity, the analysis establishes the key trends in the agriculture and land-use sector in the period 2000- 2018.
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Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
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Why transition to deforestation free agriculture?
Library
- Making Elephants Dance – A Case Study on Shared Agent Banking in Uganda
- Integrating Inclusive Green Finance Policies into National Financial Inclusion Strategies
- Scaling up climate finance in the context of Covid-19: Executive summary
- Policy Model for Digital Identity and Electronic Know Your Customer (e-KYC)
- The Opportunity for Digital and E-commerce Payments in the Pacific Region
- Catalyzing Responsible Digital Payments in the North East Region of India
- Digital CVA solutions: Using technology in Cash and Voucher Assistance
- Assessment Of Financial Service Providers – CVA In Yemen
- Policy Model for MSME Finance
- Climate finance in the agriculture and land use sector – global and regional trends between 2000 and 2018
- Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
Learning
Events
- Segmentation of Women Clients: Lessons from Access Bank Nigeria and KIT Royal Tropical Institute
- Segmentation of Women Clients: Lessons from VP Bank Vietnam and CARE Ignite
- Fintech Innovation Challenge
- European Microfinance Network (EMN) Annual Conference 2021
- Lifting the Fog: ATLAS Data for Financial Inclusion
- Guidelines for increasing access of small-scale fisheries to insurance services