Thanks to everyone who joined our faivLive webinar on Global Pandemic Meets Microfinance: Impact on Poor Households and What the Industry Needs to Do Now, on Friday April 10. Below you’ll find a list of resources shared by panelists and attendees during the call.
If you missed the webinar you can still watch it here.
Resources Shared
Hrishipara Daily Diaries Coronavirus Updates, Stuart Rutherford
Corona Case Studies, FSD Kenya
How Should FSPs Respond to the COVID-19 Pandemic?, Center for Financial Inclusion (CFI)
Does One Size Fit All? Realistic Alternatives for COVID-19 Response in Low-Income Countries, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Flatten the Curve without Flattening the Economy: How to Stop COVID-19 from Causing Another Catastrophe for Health in Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Masks and Handwashing vs. Physical Distancing: Do We Really Have Evidence-based Answers for Policymakers in Resource-limited Settings?, Center for Global Development (CGD)
Social distancing unlikely to hold up in Africa without a safety net for microentrepreneurs, Brookings Institution
For Spanish speakers: Webinar: Reactivación de las MPYMEs en tiempos de crisis - Lecciones aprendidas, Andares
Financial Inclusion and Resilience: How BRAC’s Microfinance Program Recovered from the West Africa Ebola Crisis, FinDev Gateway, CGAP
Saving Money, Saving Lives: A Case Study on the Benefits of Digitizing Payments to Ebola Response Workers in Sierra Leone, Better than Cash Alliance
Savings Groups and COVID-19, The Mango Tree/ SEEP Network
About the Webinar
This edition of faiVLive brings together expert practitioners and researchers to discuss how we should be thinking about the impact of COVID-19 and pandemic control policies on poor households in developing countries, what policy interventions are plausible and possible, what role does microfinance have to play, and what needs to happen to enable the global microfinance industry to be useful now and six months from now.
Featuring
Shameran Abed, Senior Director of BRAC’s microfinance and ultrapoor graduation schemes
Greta Bull, CEO of CGAP and a director at the World Bank Group
Deborah Burand, Professor of Clinical Law at NYU and the Co-Director of the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship
Neville Crawley, CEO at Kiva
Jonathan Morduch, Professor of Public Policy and Economics at NYU-Wagner, and a founder and Executive Director of the Financial Access Initiative
Stuart Rutherford, Leader of the Hrishipara Financial Diaries; founder and Chairman of Bangladeshi financial services co-operative SafeSave
Moderator
Timothy Ogden, Managing Director of the NYU Financial Access Initiative
Support
This faiVLive is part of the Household Financial Security Insight Community, supported by the Mastercard Impact fund, and in collaboration with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth.