Resources on social finance

  1. Social finance

    Digital Wages for Decent Work in the Philippines: Fact sheet

    22 May 2023

    The project fact sheet provides an overview of about the ILO's Global Centre on Digital Wages for Decent Work initiative in partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to accelerate the responsible transition from cash to digital wage payments.

  2. Article

    Emerging Insight: Selecting a digital payment platform

    10 January 2023

  3. Instructional material

    Financial education for micro, small and informal businesses in the Philippines – Trainee’s booklet

    19 December 2022

    This trainee's booklet on financial education targets primarily micro, small and informal business owners of the Philippines who wish to improve their digital money management. The booklet introduces basic knowledge, skills and tools related to earning, spending, budgeting and using financial services such as savings, credit, money transfers and insurance. The trainee's booklet was produced under the “Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 crisis in the Philippines” project, with the generous financial support of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

  4. Publication

    Social Finance Brief: KMBI's digitalization journey

    08 December 2022

    This brief features the microfinance NGO KMBI in the Philippines and a digital finance pilot for integrated risk management solutions. The brief includes lessons learned that can help other microfinance institutions.

  5. Event

    Human resource development in the financial inclusion sector: Supporting managers in their HRD role

    The e-MFP Human Resources Action Group and the ILO’s Social Finance Programme organized a webinar series on human resource development (HRD) in the financial inclusion sector in 2022. Throughout the series we shared the results of the Action Group’s 2021 survey on HRD practices and discussed different topics with microfinance practitioners: aligning HRD and business strategy, supporting managers in their HRD role and equal opportunities for women.

  6. Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs)

    Bringing Back Jobs Safely under the COVID-19 Crisis in the Philippines: Rebooting Small and Informal Businesses Safely and Digitally

    15 June 2021

    The ILO and the Government of Japan have partnered to help micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) operate safely under the prolonged community quarantine and adapt to the New Normal business environment with improved workplace safety and health practices and better equipped to take advantage of the available digital tools and the expanding digital economy opportunities.

  7. Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

    Liz Green, Executive Vice President, ICMIF

    13 May 2021

    “Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators” is a series of interviews with co-operators from around the world with whom ILO officials have crossed paths during the course of their work on cooperatives and the wider social and solidarity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Liz Green, Executive Vice President at ICMIF.