Social finance

With an emphasis on social justice, the ILO's Social Finance Programme supports efforts to extend financial services to excluded persons by addressing two main goals:
- The promotion of better employment; and
- A reduction in the vulnerability of the working poor.
News
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Document
Enterprises Monthly Newsletter
01 July 2022
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Document
Finance for a Just Transition and the Role of Transition Finance
16 June 2022
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News
Call for consultant: Supply and demand of financial services for agricultural value chains in Sierra Leone
25 April 2022
Highlight
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Financial education
New training material available to upgrade refugees’ and host communities’ financial education skills
The latest ILO Trainee’s booklet in Financial Education for Refugees and Host Communities is finally out! Full of realistic case studies and a series of interactive activities, this new trainee’s booklet is meant to disseminate key financial education messages to refugees and host communities of East Africa, in the framework of the PROSPECTS project. After being thoroughly reviewed after both financial education trainings in Kenya and Ethiopia, this new booklet is available for you to check out!
Latest publications: Financial inclusion
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Integrated enterprise and market systems assessment on the refugee and host community livelihoods in Sudan
20 April 2022
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Social Finance Update
04 February 2022
Latest publications: Impact insurance
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Social Finance Brief: MiCRO
30 May 2022
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Social Finance Brief: Pacífico Seguros
25 April 2022
Latest publications: Sustainable investing
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Social Finance Update
04 February 2022
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Annual Report 2020
24 August 2021
Projects with a social finance component
Global
Project name: Support CFC’s Development of a Social and Environmental Management SystemResponsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#a28xobn
Type of intervention: Innovative financial services
Starts on: 12/4/18
Ends on: 3/31/20
Social Finance theme: Sustainable investing
Global
Project name: Building capacity for social compliance of investments in agriculture in Africa (AATIF)Responsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#ai21hxm
Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building
Starts on: 7/1/12
Ends on: 7/14/21
Social Finance theme: Sustainable investing
Global
Project name: Partnership with Insurance for Rural Resilience & Economic Development (INSURED)Responsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#btj0h1b
Type of intervention: Technical assistance, capacity building
Starts on: 11/8/18
Ends on: 12/31/21
Social Finance theme: Impact insurance
Global
Project name: A Global Action Network to make agriculture insurance work betterResponsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#ado75e2
Type of intervention: Capacity building
Starts on: 10/1/14
Ends on: 12/31/19
Social Finance theme: Impact insurance
Global
Project name: Change Management to achieve impact with insurance - Phase IIResponsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#a2r6p31
Type of intervention: Innovative financial services, capacity building
Starts on: 4/1/16
Ends on: 11/30/19
Social Finance theme: Impact insurance
Global
Project name: Partnership for improving Prospects for host communities and forcibly displaced persons (PROSPECTS)Responsible unit/department: Policy
Web link: https://www.ilo.org/global/programmes-and-projects/prospects/WCMS_725066/lang--en/index.htm
Type of intervention: Capacity building
Starts on: 7/1/19
Ends on: 6/30/23
Social Finance theme: Financial inclusion
Global
Project name: Joining Forces To Promote Impact InsuranceResponsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#a2b2urq
Type of intervention: Innovative financial services, capacity building
Starts on: 6/1/18
Ends on: 5/31/21
Social Finance theme: Impact insurance
Global
Project name: Le rôle de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire dans le développement durable, et l’avenir du travail et de l’emploiResponsible unit/department: Social Finance
Web link: https://ilo.org/DevelopmentCooperationDashboard/#a2sa6ka
Type of intervention: Research
Starts on: 12/2/15
Ends on: 12/31/19
Social Finance theme: Financial inclusion