Resources on social finance

  1. Publication

    Just Transition Finance - Pathways for banking and insurance

    03 December 2023

    Promoting a just transition is essential to achieve broad-based support for ambitious climate action. In this collective effort, financial institutions play a major enabling role. This publication highlights crucial elements, emerging practices and examples of the banking and underwriting activities in promoting a just transition and serves as a guide for banks and insurance companies.

  2. Document

    Enterprises Monthly Newsletter

    01 December 2023

  3. Learnings from case studies from Guatemala and Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Developing an impact monitoring system for Sida’s guarantee instrument

    30 November 2023

    Credit guarantees can be a powerful instrument to achieve positive development results. This paper summarises findings from case studies, conducted in Guatemala and in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and illustrates their contribution to our work co-designing an impact monitoring system for Sweden’s guarantee instrument.

  4. Event

    Webinar: Inclusive property insurance: bridging the gap to financial security

    On 6 December 2023, the ILO's Social Finance Programme, with support from the Swiss Capacity Building Facility and Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter and in partnership with Britam, will organize a webinar on inclusive property insurance. The webinar will shed light on strategies, innovations and best practices that can make property insurance more inclusive and will bridge the gap to financial security.

  5. Event

    Webinar: How can fast-paced digitalization be sustainable in the financial sector?

    On 5 December 2023, the ILO's Social Finance Programme and Sectoral Policies Department will organize a webinar to reveal the results of a global study on the impact of digitalization on working conditions, skills development, safe and healthy work environment, as well as diversity in the financial services.

  6. News

    ILO at COP28: Events on sustainable enterprises, financing and just transition

    24 November 2023

  7. Spotlight Interviews with Co-operators

    Interview with Ekaterina Dimitrova, Project Manager, Monnaie Léman, Geneva, Switzerland

    20 November 2023

    “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 soli-darity economy (SSE). On this occasion, the ILO interviewed Ekaterina Dimitrova, Project Manager, Monnaie Léman, Geneva, Switzerland.