Many investors provide tailored non-financial support, including technical assistance, to companies in order to enhance product development, improve service quality, expand client reach, and build the internal capacity of investees. This brief, Using non-financial support to increase financial inclusion, uncovers how investments providing non-financial support can deliver stronger impact results across three financial inclusion indicators. Findings also reveals opportunities to increase the value-add of non-financial support in financial inclusion.
This brief explores investment-level, annualized impact performance data contributed by investors to the IRIS+ financial inclusion impact performance benchmark. The impact performance benchmark is a new, first-of-its-kind tool that enables investors to analyze their impact performance, and to compare their own impact results relative to their peers across the market and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Find more insights on the impact performance of investments in financial inclusion, sample characteristics, and methodological choices in the financial inclusion impact performance benchmark by signing into IRIS+ here >
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