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John Magnay and Simona Haiduc engaged in a discussion on Opportunity International's rural finance model, impact assessment results, and strategy for reaching more of Africa’s smallholder farmers.

USAID is working to identify and mitigate the implicit and explicit barriers to entry to economic enterprise, including those related to persons with disabilities.

This guide provides an overview of issues to be taken into account when researching child time use with PRA methodology, along with a sample tool.

Grounded in an overview of CARE’s approach to resilience, this session features evidence and lessons learned from some of CARE’s most successful market engagement initiatives.

The Tanzania Staples Value Chain Project – NAFAKA, implemented by ACDI/VOCA, is one of the 10 active Feed the Future projects in Tanzania. Chief of Party Lee Rosner discusses NAFAKA’s market-driven, value chain approach to addressing food security concerns in the country, sharing both the challenges and successes encountered during the project’s first year of implementation.

"Money on the Move: Payments and Transfer of Money Behavior of African Households" offers an in-depth look at the payment behavior of Sub-Saharan Africans, based on survey results from 11 African nations.

Dr. Vivian Afi Abui Dzokoto and Dr. Edwin "Cliff" Mensah discuss their IMTFI-funded research on the barriers to uptake of MFS within a Ghanaian field-based context.

This guide, developed by USAID's Rural SPEED project in Uganda, provides a step-by-step process for understanding effective product design.

The related resources below are products of the "Financing Value Chains" session of USAID's Meeting the Challenges of Value Chain Development: A Learning Event. Session Description:

The purpose of this study was to identify and refine indicators that can be used to assess the impact of microinsurance on the poor.

Census information related to State-Owned Retail Banks across the globe conducted in 2004.