Green Inclusive Finance: A Framework for Understanding How Financial Services Can Help Low-Income and Vulnerable People Respond to Climate Change
This publication identifies the different financial products and services that can help mitigate adverse impacts on the environment, strengthen resilience against climate-related shocks, and support adaptation to climate change and transition to new livelihoods. It reviews their effectiveness in reaching these objectives, using key results from different impact studies.
Guidelines
EU Taxonomy
The EU Taxonomy establishes the technical screening criteria for determining the conditions under which an economic activity qualifies as contributing substantially to climate change mitigation or climate change adaptation and for determining whether that economic activity causes no significant harm to any of the other environmental objectives.
Guidelines
A Guide to Digitalization: Steps to Launch Digital Financial Services with a Client-Centric Approach
Guide details a client-centric approach to digitalization based on the experiences of a group of Ecuadorian providers.
Case studies & Field examples
Case Study: Fundación Espoir Bringing ‘Espoir’ (hope) to Ecuadorian Women Microentrepreneurs During COVID-19
This case study details the outcomes of gender-focused COVID-19 market research and an internal gender assessment carried out by Value for Women with Fundación Espoir in Ecuador.
Guidelines
Universal Standards Manual in English - February 2022
The complete manual of the Universal Standards for Social and Environmental Performance Management, as of February 2022.
Guidelines
Analyze Internal Factors to Inform your Growth Policy
Table provides recommendations for internal factors that should be assessed to ensure adequate capacity to support targeted growth.