Financial First Responders: COVID-19 Resources for Financial Inclusion

Links to Resources for those Providing Financial Services

Updated 26 April 2020

Covid-finclusion.org – A forum of SPTF, CFI and EMP, including an important 3-part series by Daniel Rozas:

• Part 1: Keeping the Patient Alive
• Part 2: Keeping the Blood Flowing
• How Long can Microfinance Institutions Last

COVID-19: A framework for the Microfinance Sector – Paul DiLeo and Ira Lieberman lay out a plan for rescuing the microfinance sector

SPTF’s Guidelines for Treating Staff Responsibly During a Pandemic

The Best Laid Plans – CGAP’s Response to COVID-19

FSD Kenya:

• COVID-19 Economic Data
• Dilemmas of Distancing
• If the Coronavirus Doesn’t Kill You …
• Our Love Has Grown More …

The Role of DFS Agents During the COVID-19 Crisis by Caribou Digital

Finding Hope in a Global Pandemic from Making Cents

Next Billion’s Coronavirus Resources for the Social Impact Sector

ADA COVID-19 Crisis Publications List

• ADA La Crise du COVID19 (FR)
• ADA La Crisis del COVID-19 (ESP)
• ADA Covid-19 Crisis (EN)

How Are People Living in Poverty Dealing with the Early Economic Impacts of COVID-19 by Fundacion Capital

IDB’s Latin American and Caribbean Innovators Map

Test of a Lifetime: COVID-19 and Financial Inclusion Series from the Center for Finacnial Inclusion

Financial Access Initiative Resources on COVID and Microfinance

CARE’s Guidelines for Savings Groups

CGAP’s COVID-19 Discussion Forum

BRACs Coronavirus Resources

SEEP’s Savings Groups and COVID-19

SEEP’s Minimum Economic Recovery Standards Guidance for COVID-19

SEEP’s Minimum Economic Recovery Standards

Rural Bank Association of the Philippine’s Disaster Response Resources

Stuart Rutherford’s Coronavirus Updates (Financial Diaries from Bangladesh)

How Financial Inclusion Can Help in a Pandemic: FSDKenya

BFA Global’s COVID-19 Response Page

ACCION’s COVID-19 Guide for Financial Service Providers

Soul of Finance – Financial First Responder Series

• Group-Based Financial Services and the Coronavirus
• Financial First Responders
• VisionFund Mexico
• An Update from CARD MRI Philippines
• When “Stay at Home” Means “Starve at Home”: An Interview with Marin Burt
• Illiquid Contagion

If you have resources you want to add to this list, please send a message to larry@souloffinance.com or post a link in the comments section below.