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Normative Documents
SDC [1.3 MB]

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
Working Aids
SDC [548 kB]

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.
SDC/ E+E [5.8 MB]
This guidance sheet is one of a series of tools written to support SDC staff and partners in designing and implementing projects aimed at financial inclusion. It outlines key issues regarding inclusive agricultural insurance and how to promote this approach within the overall framework of inclusive insurance throughout the design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of cooperation strategies and project interventions.
SDC [1.6 MB]
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 financial education. It provides guidance on how to tackle financial education in the design, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of SDC project interventions.
SDC [2.5 MB]

This Manual for Strategic and Operational Project Cycle Management (PCM) aims at improving Accountability for Results in SDC Financial Sector Development cooperation projects. The manual provides practice-oriented guidance to development professionals dealing with FSD projects. The manual focuses on planning, monitoring, evaluating and steering FSD initiatives. Its main audience is SDC programme management staff and partner representatives with whom projects are planned, monitored and evaluated.

Featured Items

Village Capital [3.6 MB]

Village Capital with the support of its partners at the Impact-Linked Finance Fund, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the Austrian Development Agency have launched the Catalyzing Financial Inclusion: Gender-Inclusive Fintech Solutions for Migrants report. This report shares insight on the financial inclusion obstacles disenfranchised migrant populations (especially women migrants) face in Saharan Africa, the Middle East and North Africa, and South and Southeast Asia – and highlights innovative, tech-driven solutions to these challenges. 
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