Grameen Foundation’s Community Knowledge Worker Initiative is based on the belief that a distributed network of intermediaries, or Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs), can use mobile devices to collect and disseminate information to improve the livelihoods of smallholder farmers.
Community Knowledge Worker Pilot Report
The Growth Guarantees Program: A Promise Delivered
Grameen Foundation's Growth Guarantees program was launched in 2005 to increase microfinance clients’ access to loans by guaranteeing local funding for the microfinance institutions (MFIs) that serve them. It has since become one of the industry’s largest financing efforts dedicated to ensuring that socially-focused MFIs get funding in their local currencies, thereby minimizing their exposure to foreign exchange risk. A Promise Delivered chronicles the program's growth and impact in its first five years.
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No Footsteps to Follow: The talent gap in the development finance sector in India
Co-published by Grameen Foundation, the Center for Creative Leadership, Continuum and ShoreCap Exchange (February 2010)
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Climate Change and Microfinance
Asif Dowla
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"Elevated Food Prices Impact on Microfinance Clients Practitioners"
Zaved Ahmed and Camilla Nestor, Grameen Foundation. Article in Microbanking Bulletin (Spring 2009)