MICROFINANCE LAW AND REGULATION
Vision:
Financial inclusion is more than an economic process: it can also be described as a legal and regulatory reform process. IDLO Microfinance Department believes that obstacles to financial inclusion can be addressed by innovative legal constructions, and that a country’s legal professionals have a primary role to play advocating for the rights of the microfinance consumers.
Areas of interest:
Activities:
Mapping: we have built a global regulatory database for financial inclusion.
Technical assistance: thanks to our international perspective and a global network, we now offer regulatory impact assessment studies and legal framework implementation consulting for banking supervisory bodies.
Financial inclusion laboratory: we are financing six projects from our alumni across the globe. These initiatives are pilots for innovative legal solutions to financial inclusion issues.
Research and publications: we use the outcome mapping research methodology, and utilize knowledge generation as a tool to convince, to inform, and eventually to influence behavior of key microfinance stakeholders.
Training: we have significant experience in training legal professionals, microfinance practitioners and law and policy makers on legal aspects of financial inclusion.
E-learning: we are developing and publish distance learning courses to increase the outreach of our trainings.
For more information about IDLO’s Microfinance program, contact
the Microfinance Team