Resources on social finance

  1. News

    12th Academy on Social and Solidarity Economy - Elective 6: SSE, Local Economic Development and social innovation

    10 January 2022

  2. Event

    Impact evaluation in Indonesia: Evaluation of bundled financial and non-financial services

    The Social Finance Programme organized a special event at the ILO headquarters, where we presented the results of the impact evaluation of the bundled financial and non-financial services provision in Indonesia.

  3. Document

    Innovative finance

    14 December 2018

    In a challenging financial context where traditional forms of development aid are under pressure, innovative finance has emerged as a complementary approach to generate sustainable sources of finance to help reach development goals.

  4. Publication

    Social Finance Working Paper #75: Innovative finance - putting your money to (decent) work

    14 December 2018

    Social Finance has been working since late 2017 towards exploring further potential to engage with innovative finance stakeholders with the goal to achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and, in particular, the goal of decent work and economic growth. This paper introduces the concept of innovative finance and outlines some initial thoughts on the potential role and contribution of the ILO.

  5. Event

    Webinar – Innovative finance: Why should we care?

    Throughout October 2018, the Social Finance Programme, the ILO’s Enterprises Department and the ILO’s Partnerships Department organized a series of webinars on innovative finance. In these internal webinars, we looked at how other UN agencies are using innovative finance to achieve their institutions’ missions and we discussed how the ILO could increase engaging with innovative finance stakeholders to further promote Decent Work.

  6. Publication

    Impact Insurance Working Paper #42: Learning from others' mistakes

    06 July 2015

    The microinsurance sector has grown to 500 million in 2012 due to the successes of many schemes. However, for every scheme that has succeeded, many more have struggled to reach scale, become viable or provide client value, and some have failed altogether. Research paper #42, titled “Learning from others’ mistakes” identifies the most common challenges that are likely to cause a scheme to fail using the experience of 12 cases.