FSD Main Topics and Resources
You can access the most relevant documents, tools and links in SDC's focus topics in Financial Sector Development here:
- Rural Finance
- Microfinance
- Small Enterprise Finance
- Microinsurance and Agricultural Insurance
- Social Performance Mainstreaming
- Links
The most important guiding documents are provided here:
| Policy for Financial Sector Development - update 2007 November 2006 Author: Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation SDC SDC's financial sector policy describes the strategic orientation, operational prinicples and instruments of SDC's activities in financial sector development. A must for everybody working in an SDC financial sector project! | |
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| Good Practice Guidelines for Funders of Microfinance September 2006 Author: CGAP These guidelines summarise over thirty years of lessons learned, translated into operational advice. | |
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| Building Inclusive Financial Sectors for Development April 2006 Author: UNDP The "blue book" describes all aspects of financial sector development: policy and legal framework, regulation and supervision, access to financial markets of MFIs and describes different policy options for donors and practitioners. | |
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Another key publication is the results summary of the CGAP SmartAid for Microfinance Index for SDC that can be downloaded here:
| SmartAid for Microfinance Index - SDC Results November 2008 Author: CGAP The CGAP SmartAid for Microfinance Index measures and rates the way microfinance funders work. Its indicators assess five areas: strategic clarity, staff capacity, accountability for results, knowledge management, and appropriate instruments. An independent, external assessment, the Index highlights strengths and areas for improvement; it does not, however, evaluate the quality of programs on-the-ground. Ten funders—AECID, AFD, AfDB, EC, GTZ, IFAD, ILO, MIF, SDC, and UNCDF—participated in SmartAid 2009. These are the results of the assessment of SDC. More information on http://www.cgap.org/p/site/c/template.rc/1.11.7956/ | |
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SDC's management response to the SmartAid Index
A few years earlier, in 2003, SDC agreed to have a Donor Peer Review which you can download here. The document includes the appreciation of the Review by the Directorate of SDC and the resulting outline of the action plan based on the Review.
Do you have any resources that you find of importance and relevance to this network, so please let us know at: isabelle.dauner@helvetas.org
