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Drawing on a new ILO database, this report provides an up-to-date and realistic assessment of the global contribution of self-employment and micro- and small enterprises to employment – both in the formal and the informal economy.

Find resources here from February’s seminar, including the webinar recording and presenters’ slides.

Check out presenters' key takeaways, download presentation slides, and other post-event products from this Microlinks Seminar.

NATCCO (Philippines) used its SP Start-up Fund work to improve its own SPM processes, as well as that of its members. From the start, it deliberately sought to institutionalize an SPM focus in the work of the network.

CMF (Nepal) promotes and supports SPM in spite of a difficult political environment, coupled with the challenge of members’ poor organizational infrastructure, including weak information systems.

This toolkit for facilitators of support to small forest enterprises was designed in response to needs expressed by in-country partners of the Forest Connect alliance.

The Swayam Shikshan Prayog (SSP) project in India has found that the use of outpatient services by clients is associated with increased renewals. As an added benefit of its cashless inpatient health insurance product, SSP offers clients a discount of approximately 50 percent on consultation fees from a network of local physicians and a 40 to 70 percent discount on the retail price of drugs. This Emerging Insight highlights the project's observations around client behavior related to outpatient services.

This video was captured during the microinsurance training event organised by the Gordon Institute of Business Science and supported by the Microinsurance Innovation Facility, in October 2010. Janice Angove and Nashelo Tande, from the actuarial consultancy Quindiem, present the business case for microinsurance. Drawing on Quindiem’s research into insurance and the low-income market, Angove and Tande discuss how microinsurance can contribute to a company’s sustainability, the keys to success within this market and how insurers must balance innovation with good business practice.

The TYM Fund is a Grameen replication project by the Vietnam Women’s Union to promote the welfare of Vietnamese women.

This study covers two microinsurance schemes that operate through local organizations managing all fieldwork.