What?
HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?
What financial inclusion obstacle are we supporting low-income people to navigate? What financial capability are we attempting to enable or develop? What – gives you access to MFO’s select publications organized around the content of a financial education curriculum or training manual. You can also gain access to the full set of Global Financial Education Program materials here.
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Financial Capabilities Index
MFO created this index to help determine the financial capabilities of a given population, based on their own understanding of what it means to be financially capable – to manage money well.
Financial Counselling
Financial counselling is typically provided in one-on-one settings in which a counsellor provides information and advice specific to an individual’s financial situation.
Financial Education
MFO believes that financial education is critical to efforts to improve the financial capabilities of low-income consumers. Financial education targets certain skills and ideas that a person needs to be capable financially, and it provides them with the training they need to master them. To learn more about our work with financial education, click here.
- Assessing the Outcomes of Financial Education
- Can Financial Education Change Behavior Lessons from Bolivia and Sri Lanka
- Savings and Financial Education for Girls in Mongolia: Impact Assessment Study
- Taking Stock: Financial Education Initiatives for the Poor
- Uganda Financial Education Impact Project
Insurance/Risk Management
Low-income consumers are vulnerable to multiple risks. Insurance is one way in which people can manage risk, but it is often hard to convince people to pay for something that does not yield any apparent benefit.
- Risk Management and Insurance: 'Protect Your Family's Future' Content Note
- Risk Management and Insurance: 'Protect Your Family's Future' TOT Manual
- Risk Management and Insurance: 'Protect Your Family's Future' Tool Kit
- Risk Management and Insurance: 'Protect Your Family's Future' Trainer's Guide
- 'Insurance' Video Story
MicroInsurance
Microinsurance is simply a form of insurance that is targeted towards low-income individuals. At MFO, we seek to assist companies in determining and establishing the right types of microinsurance in order to ensure that consumers truly benefit from the services they are offered.
- Can Health Microinsurance Protect the Poor
- Assessment of Health Microinsurance Outcomes in the Northern Areas, Pakistan - Baseline Report
- Weaving Micro and Small enterprises into Values Chains The Case of Guatemalan Textile Handicrafts
- Early Warning Signs: The Role of Geographic and Marketing Challenges in the AKAM Microinsurance Experience
- Managing Risk in the West Bank: A review of Supply and Demand for Microinsurance
