This new site is intended to be complementary to the other resources available, such as the FinDev COVID-19 hub. What www.covid-finclusion.org seeks to do is provide what the three initial partners think is currently missing – a place where people can submit blog pieces quickly, see responses from other readers, and start discussion threads in the forum.
The Luxembourg-based European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) has announced that it, together with the Center for Financial Inclusion and the Social Performance Task Force, has today launched a new platform, www.covid-finclusion.org, for original essay content and a discussion forum where sector stakeholders can ask questions, initiate discussions and provide details of their own experiences, forecasts and concerns.
The site has launched with a kick-off piece, entitled ‘Keeping the Patient Alive’, the first in an opening series of short papers that will adapt the Hierarchy of Needs (described in this context in a 2010 CFI paper, written by Daniel Rozas, entitled Weathering the Storm) and re-frame it for this new global crisis, extracting lessons from previous crises where relevant, and incorporating the thoughts of e-MFP’s members and friends. This series will be accompanied by other contributions from sector opinion-leaders too.