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Globally, women are 18 percent less likely than men to own a smartphone. This statistic illustrates— particularly in low-income, rural households— the ‘gender digital divide’ where women are less likely to be connected to the Internet and have access to important tools that could improve their lives.

By Erin Magee, Regional Advisor, Latin America & the Caribbean, USAID/Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance For Diana Arismendy Schroeder, establishing a community-centered approach is critical when working in fragile and conflict-affected settings.

By Clare Clingain and Emily Sloane, International Rescue Committee (IRC) If you want to understand something, you probably need to measure it – and measure it well. Chances are, someone has already tried to measure what you want to examine, but if that’s not the case, it’s important to design a tool that’s fit for the intended purpose and to test it out in multiple contexts.

This post explores how global development organizations can mitigate food and agricultural systems during the COVID-19 crisis, using a market systems approach.

This blog post explores how one USAID initiative got banks on board to provide $1 billion in services in rural Colombia and how this approach can be applied in different contexts.

Under the landmark peace agreement, the Government of Colombia has committed to addressing land issues by formalizing property rights across the country, organizing the national registry, and recovering lands that belong to the state.

What happened when low-income teens in Colombia, Ghana, Kenya and Nepal got their own savings accounts? Read the latest findings from the YouthSave project.

At the SEEP 2014 conference, a panel on the ‘Big Data’ Revolution discussed ways to use new sources of information to adapt service delivery and improve approaches to inclusive market development.

By promoting competitive processes that inject funds directly into the hands of small entrepreneurs, IFAD’s Rural Microenterprise Assets Programme is funding innovation, peace and sustainable development in the Colombian countryside.

This blog was originally posted on the CGAP Microfinance Blog as part of a blog series looking at the role public funders can play in branchless banking. How can governments effectively support mobile financial services (MFS) expansion? Over the past ten years, the U.S. government (USG) has provided both direct and indirect support for MFS program development. Here are some examples of how the USG has acted as an indirect catalyst to support program development and implementation.