Announcements and Updates

  Join L-IFT’s Humanitarian Aid Virtual Conference about Leveraging FINBIT for Humanitarian Aid   We are excited to invite you to an online conference designed to introduce humanitarian aid organizations to L-IFT and our innovative technology system, FINBIT. This event … Continued

Three innovative projects are about to start. This newsletter only presents to you one of them, the other two will be disclosed in the next newsletter.   Measuring whether the process of financial diaries has an impact on micro-entrepreneurs: The … Continued

The Corner Shop project records how small retail businesses are doing across the Covid-19 crisis. L-IFT collaborates with MSC in this project, where MSC funds India and Indonesia fieldwork, while L-IFT funds Bangladesh, Senegal, Mali, Zimbabwe, Uganda and Nigeria. MSC … Continued

Marcienne Umubyeyi, our long-term L-IFT team member has just completed the field-work with a large team in the eastern part of Congo, on behalf of Cordaid. The three-month diaries study tracked almost 400 respondents from greater Goma and greater Bukavu. … Continued

As L-IFT, we have decided to focus more on communicating our findings and experiences through LinkedIn and Twitter.  Although we will not delete our  Facebook page, it will just be used to refer people to other channels. We hereby warmly … Continued

The Small Firm Diaries (SFD) project, led by Financial Access Initiative of New York University, is fully underway with L-IFT and MFO supporting methodology development, implementing the field operations, and taking care of the data process. The project is currently … Continued

There have been some significant developments for our FINBIT. FINBIT has been perfected further, with some great new features and further trialling and testing to meet many clients’ needs. The app is now widely used, across three continents, in five … Continued