Botswana Data Resources
2024 FinScope Botswana Consumer Pocket Guide
Explore key findings from Botswana's FinScope Consumer Survey 2024, covering financial inclusion levels, savings, credit, insurance, and mobile money usage, with insights and policy recommendations for 1.54 million adults across the country.
2024 FinScope Botswana MSME Pocket Guide
Explore key findings from Botswana’s FinScope MSME Survey, covering the size and scope of the sector, financial inclusion levels, business challenges, and policy recommendations for over 124,800 business owners across the country.
2024 FinScope Botswana MSME Survey Report
Botswana's MSME sector employs 175,000 people across 138,000+ businesses, but barriers like limited financing, gender inequality, and low business sophistication are holding it back. Read the full report below
2024 FinScope Botswana Consumer Survey Report
Botswana has made significant strides in financial inclusion, with access increasing from 69% in 2009 to 94% in 2024, driven by mobile money, digital banking, and policy interventions that promote economic and social development.
When more is more: why financial inclusion demand-side surveys are essential for access to financial services
FinScope consumer surveys offer insights into people's financial needs, preferences, and behaviour. It does not attempt to replicate the work of censuses or other annual surveys.
Botswana MSME Pulse Pocket guide
Early in 2021 FinMark Trust, with support from the FCDO, set out to understand the effects of the pandemic on Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises in Botswana with a telephonic Business Pulse survey and qualitative interviews.
FinScope Botswana 2020 Consumer Survey Report
The objectives of FinScope Botswana 2020 were to understand the adult population in terms of, Livelihoods and how they generate their income, financial needs and demands, financial perceptions, demographic and geographic distribution.
The Great Reset – rethinking the data and measurement framework
The Great Reset has happened. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the inflection point with systemic effects that affect how people live their lives
Botswana MAP Diagnostic 2015 report
This report summarises the findings of the MAP Botswana diagnostic, a comprehensive study of the scope for financial inclusion in Botswana
Botswana Programmes Resources
2026 SADC Financial Inclusion Forum - Day 1
Commemorating 10 Years of Regional Financial Inclusion, The 2026 SADC Forum marks a decade of regional financial inclusion progress, bringing together policymakers, regulators, and financial sector leaders from across Southern Africa.
2026 SADC Financial Inclusion Forum - Day 2
Day 2 of the 2026 SADC Financial Inclusion Forum continues the conversation on advancing financial inclusion across the SADC region. View the recording below.
South Africa to the rest of SADC Remittances Market Assessment 2024
This report offers a comprehensive analysis of South Africa–SADC remittance markets, exploring pricing, regulation, technology, and market dynamics to identify opportunities to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and promote financial inclusion.
SADC Gender and Financial Inclusion Factsheet
UN Women has published an analysis of the current status of financial inclusion in SADC countries, with inputs from the SADC Secretariat and FinMark Trust. Read the factsheet.
Status of Financial Inclusion in SADC Member States
The UN Women report titled “Her Finance, Her Future – Building Stronger Economies One Woman at a Time” explores the status of financial inclusion in SADC, focusing on women's access to and use of financial services.
UN Women SADC Financial Inclusion Statistical Report
FinMark Trust is proud to have contributed to this comprehensive report. Download the Financial Inclusion and Gender in SADC Sub-region Status Report for the statistical findings.
Using a Multi-faceted Approach to Combatting Financial Inequality
Formal financial and economic inclusion remains pivotal in addressing the rampant inequality in many African economies today.
Family Remittances: A Vital Source for Livelihoods in SADC
Families' access to financial resources is crucial for building thriving communities and fostering economic growth. Remittances, as a vital source of income, provide millions of people with the means to meet their basic needs.
Remittances Market Assessment 2021 - Pocket guide
This pocket guide highlights key findings from the market assessment of remittance flows into and out of South Africa using SARB data and a mystery shopping exercise looking at the costs of remitting via various channels, from South Africa.
National Surveys
The National Surveys methodology is a credible and globally accepted process of collecting and analysing financial inclusion data. National Surveys methodology uses a sampling procedure that ensures minimum acceptable levels for national, urban/rural and regional reliable estimates with acceptable margins of error. A multi-stage sampling methodology is applied, which entails selection of enumeration areas (EAs) – from recent census or population estimates using probability proportional to size, followed by the selection of households and the selection of one adult in the selected household using a Kish Grid.