For those in development, 2025 has been a bit of a wild ride and many organisations have been doing some introspection.

The team at Cenfri has been thinking about how we can continue to pursue evidence-driven impact, financial independence and sustainability with an inspired, capable and purpose-driven team (our enduring strategic objectives).

We are resisting pivots in hasty response to external influence and have chosen to be deliberate about evolving some of the areas of work where we are seeing traction and using that momentum to step into new territory.

As always, it is a learning journey about:

1. what impacts on development,
2. what donors can do about it and
3. what Cenfri can do.

We’ll continue to deliver good work in financial sector development but will deliberately be leaning into our data and digital transformation portfolio and deepening our consumer outcomes work next year.

Read some of our highlights from 2025, as well as some of the work we are looking forward to getting stuck into during 2026.