European Microfinance Platform
Over one billion people globally live with a disability — and in the Global South, people with disabilities face disproportionately high rates of poverty and unemployment. Yet their potential as en...
The Luxembourg Award For Inclusive Finance 2026, formerly known as the European Microfinance Award, ‘Unlocking Youth-Inclusive Finance' is open until 12 April and is inviting applications from orga...
Lanzamiento del Premio de Luxemburgo para las Finanzas Inclusivas 2026, anteriormente conocido como el Premio Europeo de las Microfinanzas, “Impulsando las Finanzas Inclusivas para la Juventud”, di...
The e-MFP and Aqua for All-led WASH Action Group (WASH AG) is advancing critical work to unlock finance for water, sanitation, and hygiene by building the evidence base needed to attract investment...
Case studies and best Practices for Financial Services Providers
Persons with disabilities represent 16% of the global population, yet remain among the most financially excluded, with women with d...
Gender equality and climate resilience are key impact priorities for financial inclusion. Only recently have we begun to fully grasp how closely these two objectives are linked. This panel will exp...
Welcome: Christoph Pausch, Executive Secretary e-MFP
Opening Remarks: Thomas Barbancey, Deputy Director for Development Cooperation and Humanitarian Affairs, Luxembourg Ministry of Foreign and Eu...
Climate change is fundamentally reshaping the inclusive finance landscape. Extreme weather events—floods, droughts, cyclones— threaten to reverse decades of progress in financial inclusion. Low-inc...
Mobile technology has been used in microinsurance for many years, with varying results. Recently, a renewed appetite has emerged among the mobile money industry to provide insurance as part of a su...
2024 marked a pivotal moment for advancing financial inclusion for refugees and other forcibly displaced persons (FDPs). Through the European Microfinance Award and several sessions at EMW 2024, re...
2025 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Cooperatives. It is the only business model to be honored with such a distinction—not once, but twice—under the theme “Co...
In the context of climate change, issues of food security for farmers have taken on added urgency. Small farmers feed close to 80% of the total population in Asia and SSA, support the livelihoods o...
AI seems to be everywhere these days. Legacy providers have embedded “co-pilots” to supercharge their existing products, and every start-up touts its approach to “GenAI for [...]”. The same is true...
Presented in the IF25 session 'Leveraging Data Insights to Scale WASH Investment: Findings from the Latest WASH AG Research Project'
While credit, savings and other services play important roles in building people’s resilience, inclusive insurance at genuine scale and with real impact remains a holy grail. How can the financial ...
Inclusive Finance 25 (IF25), the new name for e-MFP’s annual event, is on the horizon! Join us in Luxembourg 12-14 November.
The rebrand marks the next chapter in the evolution of one of the worl...
e-MFP is proud to announce that its flagship annual event, long known as European Microfinance Week (EMW), has been renamed Inclusive Finance 25 (IF25). The rebrand marks the next chapter in the ev...
Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) are not just basic needs – they are fundamental to health, dignity, and sustainable development. Yet in 2025, billions of people worldwide still lack safe drink...