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Library     Jobs     Training & Events      Announcements     Countries     Topics   EXCHANGE Your global resource on financial inclusion | 7 Feb 2017 Sign up for our bulletins with unique regional content in: French Spanish Arabic Dear Naveen Chand Kanyamarala, Welcome to the second issue of the Gateway Exchange!   The Microfinance Gateway's biweekly bulletin fosters the exchange of ideas, lessons, and resources among our global community of financial inclusion professionals. In this edition, you will find: Editor's Pick: How to Succeed in Your Digital Journey: A Series of Toolkits for Financial Services Providers; Gateway Highlight:Five InsureTech Trends and What They Mean for Microinsurance; Gateway Quiz: How Much Do You Know about Mobile Money? Events, jobs, announcements, and recent library publications on financial education, digital payments, linkage banking, and more.  Also, don't miss today's live chat hosted by CGAP, "Innovative Financial Solutions to Reach Low-Income Customers", which starts soon at 9:30 am ET (US). We hope you'll find these resources useful and invite you to join the Exchange!  Create an account and submit content today. Sincerely, Microfinance Gateway Team EDITOR'S PICK  How to Succeed in Your Digital Journey: A Series of Toolkits for Financial Services Providers   PHB Development, United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF), The MasterCard Foundation, Dec 2016    This toolkit is the first in a series of six practical toolkits aimed at supporting financial service providers (FSPs) to launch digital financial services. Each toolkit is accompanied by a case study and includes an action plan, a budget template, a risk mapping exercise, and more.  The first toolkit focuses on "Using Mobile as a Tool" and it guides FSPs on how to: 1) use mobile devices to facilitate daily operations; 2) provide new services through mobile devices; and 3) use mobile agencies instead of physical branches.  Stay tuned for the remaining toolkits in this series coming soon! Read More > GATEWAY HIGHLIGHT Five InsureTech Trends and What They Mean for Microinsurance Contributed by Tyler Tappendorf of Inclusivity Solutions How emerging technologies will help insure emerging consumers Read More > GATEWAY QUIZ How Much Do You Know about Mobile Money? Do you think you know everything about mobile money? Take our quiz to find out. All answers are anonymous. See how your results compare with those of your peers.   Take our Quiz LATEST FROM THE LIBRARY Beyond the Classroom: Evidence on New Directions in Financial Education  Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA), Jan 2017 | Can ways of designing and targeting financial education promote financial behavior?   Read More Modelo Peru: Unique Model, Unique Challenges, Bright Future  Institute of International Finance, Center for Financial Inclusion at Accion, Jan 2017 | Helping traditional banks better reach underserved populations   Read More Focus on Enterprise: Demystifying the Role of Microfinance in Job Creation  Microfinance Centre (MFC), Dec 2016 | Redefining expectations for MFIs' limited role in reducing unemployment    Read More Linkage Banking in the Pacific Foundation for Development Cooperation, Nov 2016 | Examples of partnerships, and insights on increasing access to financial services Read More View all Library resources > EVENTS Making Digital Payments Safe for All: Eight Practices to Protect People from Risk  Better Than Cash Alliance 7 Feb 2017 | Online      Read More Series of Live Chats on Innovative Financial Solutions to Reach Low-Income Clients CGAP 7-9 Feb 2017 | Online    Read More 13th Annual Global Microfinance Forum  Uniglobal 16-17 Mar 2017 | Prague, Czech Republic      Read More Cracking the Nut 2017: Reinforcing Food Systems to Meet Urban Demand Connexus 27-28 Mar 2017 | Bangkok, Thailand   Read More View all Events > ANNOUNCEMENTS Save the Date: European Microfinance Week 2017! European Microfinance Platform (E-MFP) 6 Feb 2017      Read More Major Agricultural Lenders Adopt Shared Social and Environmental Principles Council on Smallholder Agricultural Finance (CSAF) 6 Feb 2017   Read More View all Announcements > JOBS Director, Policy  Omidyar Network - Washington, DC - United States  Deadline: 4 Mar 2017  Read More Activity Based Costing for Bulk Payments  United Nations Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)- Kampala, Uganda Deadline: 16 Feb 2017   Read More View all Jobs > MICROFINANCE GATEWAY 1825 I St NW, Washington, DC 20006 ©CGAP 2017 All Rights Reserved

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