The SDC guidance for Financial Sector Development provides the rationale  and strategic orientation of SDC’s approach to FSD. 

It offers guidance to SDC’ s programme staff and decision-makers in the cooperation offices and at the head office, executing Swiss, international and national agencies, and to consultants so as to ensure coherent and effective FSD projects.

Interested to see the presentation of the launch event of the FSD guidance?  >> here

This guidance sheet is part of a series of tools developed to support SDC staff and partners in designing and implementing projects aiming at financial inclusion.

This specific guidance sheet introduces the concept and key aspects of responsible credit. It provides guidance on how to design, prepare, implement, and monitor SDC projects effectively.

To support the uptake of the SDC Guidance on Results Indicators, the IED has elaborated supporting working aids for FSD, PSD and VSD projects. 

This working aid aims to provide information on good practice approaches to ensure credible measurement and reporting of results indicators for SDC’s FSD and PSD programmes. It supports the selection of relevant indicators for programmes, but does not include detailed information on how to measure each indicator.

Watch this very short video explaining the rational of the working aid.

Working aid on the use of result indicators in VSD programmes.

This guidance sheet is part of a series of tools developed to support SDC staff and partners in designing and implementing projects targeting the promotion of financial inclusion. This specific guidance sheet introduces the concept and key aspects of the financial inclusion of migrants (FIM). It provides guidance on the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of SDC project interventions improving FIM.

This study is about one of 22 technical assistance supports for investees and their end clients to deepen the impact of investments funds under a public-private development partnership between SDC and responsAbility Investments AG from 2010 to mid of 2019. It forms part of a series of thematic case studies of SDC’s Employment + Income Network.

This study is based on the experience of the PROFIN Foundation in the field of financial innovation and development of agricultural microinsurance products. It forms part of a series of thematic case studies of SDC’s Employment + Income Network.

This study is based on the experience of the public-private development partnership for independent media, a joint initiative between the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the Media Development Loan Fund, responsAbility Social Investments AG and Bank Vontobel. It forms part of a series of thematic case studies of SDC’s Employment + Income Network.