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Topic: Using diaries for flood survivors.
Topic: How Anne Marie Van Swinderen herself is using our product, the FINBIT app, to stay on top of L-IFT’s activities and finances. Topic: The Poverty Stoplight, how we can integrate that into our FINBIT app, and how we can use it to help micro-entrepreneurs. Topic: The hidden advantage of the laborious back-and-forth process of checking data integrity. Topic: SafeSave, an initiative that aims to ensure that its participants save money efficiently and safely. Topic: An innovation that integrates our FINBIT app and agriculture. Topic: Our FINBIT app is not just a data recording tool, but also a problem-solving tool. Topic: Data Emancipation. Topic: The Netherlands: companies are obliged to verify the ESG of their supply chains. Topic: To fully know women’s situation you also need to have data on men. Topic: Using the FINBIT app in tandem with agricultural and educational apps. Topic: L-IFT data debunks financial myths. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about the new job title, “Financial Diarist”. Topic: Diaries in emergency situations. Topic: The fast feedback loop of the diaries research methodology. Topic: Why we were invited to the FinDev Gateway workshop about Using Financial Diaries to Analyze the Women’s Market. Topic: Takeaways from the CGAP FinEquityTools Workshop on using financial diaries for financial product development for women. Topic: School businesses using FINBIT and how that would benefit women and communities as a whole. Topic: Active involvement of partners in the diaries research process is crucial for the assurance of high-quality results. Topic: FINBIT helps small business owners track customer credit. Topic: Misconceptions regarding self-reported data. Topic: Ethics of reporting back to the participants Topic: Data Empowered Employable young People (DEEP) Topic: Youth Conference: How L-IFT can benefit youth organizations. Topic: Problems with data technology, and how FINBIT avoided these problems. Topic: Using artificial intelligence to write summaries of meetings. Topic: Maritime Diaries Topic: FINBIT helps Small and Growing Businesses in impact measurement and enhancing visibility to financial services. Topic: How startups, politicians, freelancers, and small NGOs can benefit from Startup Diaries Interviews. Topic: Using FINBIT to solve Maritime Staffing Challenges. Topic: Our Humanitarian Aid Conference Topic: Technology and digitization being welcomed in complex countries like Somalia. Topic: Our approach to blending diaries and FINBIT in major proposals focusing on Education and Climate Adaptation. Topic: Anne talks about her friend using FINBIT to track her process of changing her house into an energy-efficient household. Topic: Our interactions with the microfinance institutions we approached for collaboration. Topic: Our exciting collaborations with major microfinance umbrellas. They’re embracing FINBIT’s technology advantages, driving progress, and shaping the future of their members. Topic: The remarkable journey of a Congolese refugee who participated in one of our very first FINBIT data collections in Nakivale. Topic: Anne’s inspiring experience at the Aflatoun conference. Topic: The profound implications of the new EU Directive, CSDDD (Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Duty). Topic: About our recent highlight at the European Microfinance Week! Topic: Anne reflects on the collaborative spirit in technology. FINBIT invites fellow apps that need a record-keeping aspect to join hands. Topic: Anne talks about the role that FINBIT can have in addressing climate change. Topic: Anne talks about her conversation with a Dutch trade union supporting low- and middle-income countries’ trade unions. Topic: Anne talks about the rising demand for ‘impact measurement’ from organizations. Topic: Anne talks about the implementation of Staff Diaries among L-IFT staff. Topic: Anne talks about how we have been contacted by two journalists planning to use our Diaries approach to get in-depth insights from people living in hard-to-reach places. Topic: Anne talks about an exciting opportunity for people and organizations working with private service providers (PSPs). Topic: Anne takes us on a journey to Kabwe, Zambia, where she and her colleague Mhlalisi explored the impact of FINBIT on local agribusinesses. Topic: Anne shares her eye-opening journey through South Africa’s IMBE programme. Topic: Anne talks about the resilience and versatility of micro-entrepreneurs. Topic: Anne shares insights on driving engagement with FINBIT, our innovative bookkeeping technology. Topic: Anne shares her eye-opening insights from the Financial Access initiative’s panel discussion led by Tim Ogden on the Small Firm Diaries. Topic: Anne shares insightful perspectives on the selective nature of business development programs. Topic: Anne talks about the evolution and expansion of the FINBIT loan platform. Topic: Anne talks about transforming the traditional meeting culture with ‘peer pairs’. Topic: Anne talks about the success of L-IFT’s business analytics approach. Topic: Anne talks about harnessing the power of the benefit-cost ratio to maximize impact in business development. Topic: Anne talks about scaling impact through business analytics and cost-effective strategies. Topic: Anne talks about the “silver bullet” vs. “steel bullet” approach in development interventions. Topic: Anne talks about L-IFT’s upcoming presentation at the Conference for Microfinance Research, organized by the European Microfinance Platform from June 24th to 26th in Bergamo, Italy. Topic: Anne talks about the recent European elections and the major theme of migration. Topic: Anne talks about an exciting new development at L-IFT. We are exploring the possibility of providing business advice based on detailed Diaries data. Topic: Anne talks about her experience at a recent microfinance research conference organized by Bergamo University and the European Microfinance Platform. Topic: Anne talks about the importance of corporate sustainability reporting and the traceability of value chains. Topic: Anne reveals an exciting shift for L-IFT. Topic: Anne talks about data empowerment for workers. Topic: Anne talks about the steel bullet. Topic: Anne talks about how the book “Undercover” by Journalist Jeroen Bergeijk refreshed her commitment. Topic: Anne talks about staff turnover. Topic: Anne talks about why start-ups or ‘new businesses’ fail. Topic: Anne talks about discussions with universities using existing diaries data sets. Topic: Anne talks about students getting training and knowledge about RCTs. Topic: Anne talks about how in reality the vast majority of micro-businesses and even small businesses, don’t do record keeping. Topic: Anne talks about several discussions L-IFT had with different actors on ‘agents’ or the last mile delivery of services in rural areas. Topic: Anne talks about an anecdote from our previous diaries work. Topic: Anne shares another anecdote from the Colombia Magdalena diaries. Topic: Anne uncovers an interesting anecdote in part three of the Colombia Magdalena diaries. Topic: Anne shares a captivating story in part four of the Colombia Magdalena diaries. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen shares another interesting anecdote in part five of the Colombia Magdalena diaries. Topic: Catch episode six of the Colombia Magdalena Diaries, where Anne Marie Van Swinderen dives into another unique financial story from the field. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen shares interesting anecdote about receiving a lump sum. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about a research with refugees in Nikavale during 2019 to 2022. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about how refugees are very diverse. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about how festive seasons have impact on people’s financial behaviors. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about shares another interesting anecdote about refugees. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about L-IFT having a lot of experience in developing products and services for undeserved clients. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about how FINBIT’s bookkeeping solution integrates various agricultural and value chain technologies. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about the three major pain points SACCOs face. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about how there is a crisis altogether in the development sector as a whole. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about poor loan book quality in SACCOs, where members make erratic loan repayments. Topic: Anne Marie Van Swinderen talks about how L-IFT is helping projects affected by abrupt funding cuts find low-cost, scalable solutions to salvage and expand their results. 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