Resources on social finance

  1. World Microfinance Forum in Geneva

    International Symposium on Building Fair Financial Markets for All - Profitable Investment Opportunities in Micro and Small Businesses

    Leading researchers, microfinance investors, investment intermediaries and microfinance providers will share insights and develop guidelines for the private sector to unleash the potential of microfinance. Among keynote speakers, Mr Somavia and the Nobel Prize winner, Muhammad Yunus, will adress the forum.

  2. Publication

    Facts and figures on Microfinance

    24 September 2008

    Microfinance makes a powerful contribution to decent work by providing opportunities for small investments in productive employment and job creation; and, through emergency loans, micro-savings and micro-insurance, it provides the means for people to manage risks.

  3. Video

    Empowering Ghanaian people in business

    25 May 2008

    ILO TV reports for CNN World Report from the coast of Ghana, where an ILO project is helping informal businesses to become more formal and give workers access to social protection.

  4. Video

    Banking for women in Sri Lanka

    11 May 2008

    Rupa Manel Silva is tackling poverty in Sri Lanka with a bank for women. ILO TV reports for CNN World Report.

  5. Video

    Press Conference Highlights: Global Employment Trends for Women 2008

    07 March 2008

    "We've seen that over a ten year period 200 million new jobs have been created," says Dorothea Schmidt. "That's a big, big increase and that's very good news, but the problem is the type of job that was created. And we see that over half of the jobs that women have are what we call vulnerable." Dorothea Schmidt, co-author of the report "Global Employment Trends for Women 2008" and Evy Messel, Director of the ILO's Bureau for Gender Equality speak at the GET Women press conference in Geneva, Switzerland.

  6. Video

    A Banker for Sri Lankan Women: Rupa Manel Silva

    06 March 2008

    A new report from the International Labour Organization shows that economic empowerment for women is vital for equal participation of women and men in the labour market and equal access to obtaining decent work. In Sri Lanka, Rupa Manel Silva is leading the way with a bank run by women for women.

  7. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #52: Formalisation through microfinance

    03 March 2008

    An empirical study in Egypt