SPECIAL REPORT: COVID-19 Edition of Financial Inclusion Compass Survey Launches - Looking at Challenges and Priorities of a Sector Under Threat - An Invitation to Participate

From the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP): e-MFP has launched the third e-MFP survey of financial inclusion trends, but as a special edition focused solely on the challenges and priorities facing the sector as a result of the COVID-19 public health and economic crisis. Several months into this global crisis, with its critical threat to vulnerable populations, financial inclusion providers and the entire ecosystem that supports them, the scale of the challenges ahead is becoming increasingly clear, and stakeholders can think not just about the immediate effects, but their priorities in the medium term as the sector recovers from this and puts in place measures to prepare for the future.

In this sense, this special edition Compass survey will share some of the mixed-methodology of the previous two Compass publications – but equally standalone as a snapshot of perceptions within a sector facing new and complex threats. It still will look to capture the “pulse” of the sector and ask its stakeholders the direction in which it is heading, but rather than focusing on the direction of the longer-term “normal” trends, it asks respondents to assess the current challenges, look six to 12 months down the track to think about what different actors’ priorities must be, and think about how COVID-19 may transform the sector in the long term. Respondents can choose for their comments to be attributed or anonymous.

The survey (which takes about 10 to 20 minutes, depending on optional questions and comments) launched on June 9 in English, Spanish and French and will remain open until June 23, with the Compass report published in July in all three languages. We ask all our members and friends across the sector to take the time to contribute to what will be the first major mixed-methodology look at how things have changed in these difficult weeks and months – and what is coming down the track.

This content is sponsored by e-MFP, a Luxembourg-based network with approximately 130 members.

Sources and Additional Resources

Compass Survey
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/ZH7XL9N

About the Compass
http://www.e-mfp.eu/financial-inclusion-compass