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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
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 11 days
Average audio length:
35 minutes
Guest interviews
Has sponsors
English
United Kingdom
26 episodes
since March 15, 2025
episodic
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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, sketched out on a napkin nearly four decades ago.
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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 street for three weeks, or a street vendor in Delhi wh…
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, savings, small business payments, and emergency transfers in…
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 Insured is an industry backed charity working to close …
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 money scales across Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, an…
Climate shocks are intensifying, and inclusive financial institutions are caught in the crossfire. As extreme weather events grow more frequent and severe, MFIs and inclusive banks face a dual challenge: protecting portfolio quality while continuing to support the clients who need them most.
This e…
Stories stick where statistics don't. In this episode, we head to Central Asia to explore what happens when financial literacy stops being a classroom exercise and starts becoming entertainment.
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Buazhar Abdykadyrova is a master trainer at the National Bank of the Kyrgyz Republic. …
In this episode, Jack met Gayatri Murthy, Gender Lead at CGAP to explore the next chapter of women's financial inclusion.
Women’s financial inclusion has made undeniable progress, but access alone has not delivered empowerment.
Drawing on global research and country experience, we unpack the …
In this episode, we sit down with Rahma Seif, Producer at Mediae, to go behind the scenes of one of East Africa's most successful edutainment initiatives. Edutainment (education through entertainment) is moving from experimental to essential in the financial inclusion sector, with evidence sh…
In Episode 4 of the series, we meet Solène Podevin Favre, Global Director of Insurance at VisionFund International. Solène shares VFI's experience designing and scaling inclusive insurance across Africa, Asia, and Latin America — covering what they've learned about co-creating trusted pro…
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