COVID-19 Resources

We’ve shared many covid-19 related resources and blogs via our League of Digital Finance Professionals group on LinkedIn and also included some papers and case studies in our cultivated knowledge bank. We thought we’d collate some of the popular sites, hubs and portals of information about covid-19 in this blog post to help you keep updated.

Digital finance and financial inclusion related resources are:

• Next Billion have several pages to visit for resources: Enterprise in the time of coronavirus, Corona virus archives and Covid-19 resources for the business and development sector
• FinDev Gateway has a corona virus hub of information in both English and French, and also a hub relating specifically to women’s financial resiliency.
• AFI have a COVID-19 Policy Response tracker which follows the latest interventions by AFI member institutions that include central banks, fiscal authorities, and organizations aimed at restoring financial stability
• CGAP have a hub of resources for COVID-19 and insights for inclusive finance
• UNCDF have their response on COVID-19 and links to blogs and documents
• Centre for Financial Inclusion have a series of blogs on COVID-19 and financial inclusion
• ACCION have a page focused on economic response and resilience
• Cenfri have published research, blogs and held webinar on responses to COVID-19
• GSMA have industry updates and guidance and a page on the role of mobile technology
• BFA Global have a page focused on impact and solutions for emerging markets
• Caribou Digital have a page with their COVID-19 research and responses page
• MicroSave Consulting have a page on their response, including research and blog posts
• Cash Learning Partnership have a CVA and COVID-19 page featuring resources, guidance, events and questions
• SEEP have compiled COVID-19 resources from across SEEP’s five thematic areas: Agriculture and Food Security, Resilient Markets, Responsible Finance, Savings Groups, and Women’s Economic Empowerment
• Centre of Global Development have clustered resources relating to response and recovery finance and social and economic consequences
• DFI have run some webinars on COVID 19

Looking more generally at the economic impact and assisting with recovery:

• The Economist has a hub sharing insights around responding to the economic and business impacts of COVID-19
• Bank of International Settlements (BIS) have a page gathering research and implications for central banks and international financial institutions
• The World Bank have a page sharing latest news and information on COVID-19
• International Monetary Fund (IMF) are sharing their response and how they are helping countries
• International Finance Corporation (IFC) shares the four areas they are financing to mitigate the crisis
• Mastercard Foundation are funding a recovery and resilience program

 

If you have more pages or hubs of information to add, please do email me: sarah@digitalfrontiers.org