Financial Inclusion Unlocked
The podcast meeting innovators and sector leaders who are unlocking the potential of financial inclusion as an enabler of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Through a mix of in-depth conversations and documentary-style storytelling, the podcast highlights the people and projects driving meaningful change, while also exploring the big questions the sector needs to confront to move forward.
Produced by SIJ Media
Financial Inclusion Unlocked
Latest Episodes
S3 EP3 - The Story of Fundación Génesis Empresarial with Edgardo Perez, CEO
Fundación Génesis Empresarial in Guatemala is one of the largest microfinance institutions in Latin America, and its approach to measuring success is built around a framework it calls the Ruta del Desarrollo, or the development pathway, sketche...
S3 EP2 - Building the Resilience of Micro and Small Businesses with Anindita Chakraborty, Centre for Financial Inclusion
The financial inclusion sector has made significant progress on access. More people than ever hold accounts, use digital payments, and can access credit. But access alone doesn't protect a small business owner in Lagos when floods shut her stre...
S3 EP1 - What's The True Cost of Digital Finance with Willie Blackmon (IPA) and Francis Annan (UC Berkeley)
Digital financial services have been one of the most significant development stories of the last two decades. Across sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, DFS has extended financial access to hundreds of millions of people, enabling remittances, savin...
S2 EP10 - Human Wildlife Conflict Insurance and Closing the Protection Gap in Africa
The global insurance industry has spent centuries developing tools to manage risk, yet the people most exposed to climate shocks, from smallholder farmers to displaced communities, have historically been the least able to access them. Humanity ...
S2 EP9 - Navigating Consumer Rights in the Mobile Money Era with Kennedy Kipkemboi, GSMA
Consumer protection is fast becoming one of the defining challenges of the mobile money era. From fraud and impersonation scams to opaque fees and inadequate recourse, the risks facing digital financial services users are growing, and as mobile...