Today more than ever, organisations across the world recognise that empowering women as employees, suppliers,…
Gender
Women Entrepreneurs: Surviving the Pandemic and Beyond
The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women has released its 2020 annual audit of research on…
Digital Sub-Wallets for Increased Financial Empowerment of Women
There are few, if any, mobile platforms designed around women’s financial habits and needs. However,…
Empowering Women on a Journey Towards Digital Financial Capability
Financial inclusion is becoming more and more digital. To accelerate this journey to digitization, and not let…
What Drives the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap for Young Women?
There are stubborn differences in the rates at which men and women access, use and…
A 10-point action plan for governments and businesses to rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion
Drawing on decades of experience, research and in-field activity, the following 10-point action plan to…
New research by Caribou Digital and the DFS Lab predicts implementation of the Level One Principles will benefit women and help close the gender gap
This new body of research—funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation—explores this phenomenon from…
Report: Algorithmic Bias, Financial Inclusion, and Gender: A primer on opening up new credit to women in emerging economies
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are changing financial services offerings to customers across the globe.…
Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region
Despite progress over the past few years, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region…
The Case for a Gender-Intelligent Approach: An Opportunity for Inclusive Fintechs
For low-income women, digital financial inclusion offers an opportunity to upend entrenched gender inequalities by…
Social Norms and Financial Decision-Making in Zambia
To generate insights into the normative environment within which spouses in Eastern Province, Zambia, make…
A Policy Framework for Women-led MSME Access to Finance
Access to finance for women-led-MSMEs can lead to an increase in productive assets, productivity, and…
How Social Norms for Men Restrict Women’s Financial Inclusion
The financial inclusion community has learned a lot in recent years about the role that social…
Bridging the Gap: Emerging Private Sector Response and Recovery Measures for Gender Equality amid COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has worsened existing gender inequalities, exposed fundamental flaws in economic and social…
Non-Financial Services – The Key to Unlocking the Growth Potential of Women-led SMEs for Banks
This study examines the benefits to banks of integrating NFS into lending. These services can…
How Fintechs can Profit from the Multi-Trillion-Dollar Female Economy
The female economy is large, fast-growing and underserved—and fintechs are well-positioned to tap into it.…
But How Do You Change Behavior?
Women are not a single market segment – they are heterogenous and approach financial products…
Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!
Women’s-Global Development and Prosperity Initiative’s digital financial literacy campaign in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.
Challenging the Myths around Women’s Financial Inclusion
A webinar looking at some of the most common myths around women’s digital financial inclusion…
The Role of Gender in Agent Banking : Evidence from the Democratic Republic of Congo
This paper uses a unique data set with 1.1 million customer transactions from a microfinance…
What Does It Take To Nudge Low- and Moderate-Income Population Segments to Adopt DFS?
Digital Financial Services (DFS) offer a wide variety of benefits, especially for the low- and…
Gender: The Blind Spot of the COVID-19 Response in Low- and Middle-income Countries
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for governments and citizens around the world, straining…
From Insights to Action: Gender Equality in the Wake of COVID-19
This publication summarizes data, research, and policy work by UN Women’s Policy and Programme Division…
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance (WEE-DiFine)
The White Paper focuses on developing a conceptual framework to explore the pathways linking WEE…
Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion
Digital financial services have expanded opportunities for millions of women across the globe. More than…
Four Guiding Principles for User Research with Low-Income Women in Emerging Markets
Women’s World Banking have developed four principles to frame their user research with women in…
Digital Initiatives by Shakti Foundation for Disadvantaged Women: A Lesson for Progressive MFIs in Bangladesh
MicroSave Consulting has issued two case studies concerning Shakti Foundation’s digital initiatives for women. The…
Why the Economic Response to COVID-19 Needs to be Financially Inclusive and Gender Sensitive
The Special Report highlights key gender-related issues facing society during the COVID-19 pandemic and some…
Green Delta, Bangladesh – The Case for Insuring Women for a Better Tomorrow
Green Delta Insurance Company (GDIC), a private non-life insurer in Bangladesh, was founded as a…
Digital Cash Transfers in Times of COVID-19: Opportunities and Considerations for Women’s Inclusion and Empowerment
Women’s economic empowerment will be essential for a global economic recovery. Given pre-existing gender gaps,…
Global Microscope 2019: The Enabling Environment for Financial Inclusion
The Global Microscope for Financial Inclusion, now in its 12th year, is a benchmarking index…
Delivering on the Potential of Digitized G2P: Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion and Empowerment Through Indonesia’s Program Keluarga Harapan
Financial institutions and governments have been working for years to leverage digitized G2P for women’s financial inclusion and…
AXA Mansard, Nigeria – The Case for Insuring Women for a Better Tomorrow
In 2016, AXA Mansard—one of Nigeria’s largest insurance companies—began differentiating itself in an increasingly competitive…
Case Study: Women’s Empowerment through Financial Inclusion Technology
This case study from FINCA speaks directly to the promotion of financial inclusion for women…
1st For Women South Africa, The Case for Insuring Women for a Better Tomorrow
IFC has generated a case study on 1st for Women Insurance (1st for Women), which…
How to Measure the Gender Impact of Investments
Within the field of impact investing, the emergence of Gender-Smart Investing (GSI) carries major significance.…
Webinar on Demand: Top 10 Recommendations for Reaching Women with Mobile Across Low- and Middle-income Countries
This GSMA hosted webinar, considers real-life examples of what mobile operators are doing to reach…
Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion
Digital financial services have expanded opportunities for millions of women across the globe. More than…
COVID-19 and the Insurance Industry: Why a Gender-Sensitive Response Matters
Women play key roles in their homes, communities, and businesses. If insurers develop targeted approaches and…
Gender and Financial Misconduct: A Field Experiment on Mobile Money
The findings of this study on SSRN raise important issues at the intersection of economics…
Innovative Financial Products and Services for Women in Asia and the Pacific
This paper from Asian Development Bank examines digital financial services and products—powered by financial technology—as…
Making Digital Finance Work for Women in the MENA Region: Eight Lessons from the Field
This brief from Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund highlights two regional case studies: the female agents,…
Understanding Women’s Rural Transition and Service Needs – Opportunities for Financial Service Providers
In this webinar recording FinEquity’s Social Norms lead , Nisha Singh facilitated a conversation with…
Changing Mindsets to Empower Women
This blog post and video interview on Next Billion features Roshaneh Zafar discusing how Kashf…
Customer-Centric Guide
The CGAP Customer-Centric Guide is a collection of hands-on toolkits and experiments that help with…
The Real Story of Women’s Financial Inclusion in India
This research report from Microsave Consulting explores the real problems restricting women’s access to, and…
Do No Harm Framework
This Do No Harm framework is meant to guide project/product/service design, implementation, monitoring and project…
Leveraging Digital Finance for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
This working paper from UN Women is based on initial discussions with and between Task…
Financial Technologies as a Factor of Financial Inclusion of Women
The purpose of this paper is to study the use of financial technologies by women…
Mobile money: A product of choice for women to send and receive remittances
Women constitute the majority of remittance recipients globally and remittances have an impact on both…
PoWER assessment of Women’s Economic Empowerment in The Gambia
This document from UNCDF presents the final analysis of data collected through desk research, interviews,…
Designing Products and Developing Institutions to Serve Low-income Women”
Major takeaways from this publication from Women’s World Banking include: How to develop a successful…
Leveraging Digital Finance for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment
For women and girls, the digital revolution represents one of the biggest opportunities and threats…
Women and Money
IDEO.org is a two-year initiative to surface the complex realities that keep women excluded from…
Women, Business and the Law
Gender equality is a critical component of economic growth. Women are half of the world’s…
Social Commerce Entrepreneurship and New Opportunities for Women’s Financial Inclusion in India and Indonesia
With support from Standard Chartered and the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Women’s…
Capabilities in Digital Financial Services – Calming the Fears of Myanmar’s Unbanked
This paper from ONOW Myanmar covers the results from a six-month pilot which was conducted…
10 Lessons Learnt: Closing the Gender Gap in Internet Access and Use
The internet has made communication quicker and easier, information more easily available, businesses more efficient,…
Blockchain 101: What Is It and How Can It Empower Women? – Webinar
The promise — and potential — of blockchain to drive social impact is massive. From…
Mitigating Women’s Safety Concerns with Mobile: A Case Study of Vodafone Idea’s Sakhi service
In October 2018, Vodafone Idea Ltd launched Sakhi, a service to address key barriers women face…
Integrating Gender in Research Planning
Research can open doors for more gender equitable futures. Gender analysis is built on an…
Data Driving Action for Women Dialogue Series
During the 63rd United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, BNY Mellon and Data2X’s Women’s Financial Inclusion…
Policy framework for women’s financial inclusion using digital financial services
This framework from afi provides guidance to regulators and policymakers of the AFI network and…
Gender Self-Assessment Toolkit for Financial Service Providers
With support from the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), UNCDF has been…
Profiting from Parity : Unlocking the Potential of Women’s Business in Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa has the highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world, with approximately 42 percent…
Reach, Benefit and Empower Women with Financial Services
This paper, showcases the importance of appropriate financial services for women to increase female entrepreneurship…
REPOA: Mobile Phone Ownership and DFS in Tanzania
While mobile phone access is a strong influencer of digital financial services amongst women, barriers to usage…
A Gender-Inclusive Southeast Asia through Entrepreneurship
This report, commissioned by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF), and developed by Dalberg Advisors, looks at…
Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa
This report prepared at the request of the G7 French Presidency, is a blueprint for…
Five Principles for Building Women’s Capacity for Digital Financial Services
The digitalisation of G2P payments could financially include millions more women, however, many women do…
Sex-Disaggregated Data Toolkit: How to Leverage Sex-Disaggregated Financial Inclusion Data to Accelerate Women’s Financial Inclusion
This AFI Financial Inclusion Data (FID) Working Group Guideline Note outlines steps to using supply and…
Can Social Norms Theory Provide a Roadmap for Women’s Financial Inclusion?
With one in every three women still being financially excluded, there is increased recognition of…
Women’s Empowerment and Savings Groups: What do we know?
The SEEP Network examined the pathways between Savings Groups and women’s empowerment and how how women’s…
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019
The GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 outlines the changes in the gender gap among…
Labour Pains: Discovering the Financial Lives of Zambian Mothers
Zambian women are still largely excluded from formal financial services, and gender barriers are high…
How Digital Solutions Can Bolster Women’s Financial Inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa
This note from World Bank Group explores the many ways that women in Sub-Saharan Africa…
Women, Work, and Economic Growth : Leveling the Playing Field
Despite progress, wide gender gaps remain: women have fewer economic opportunities than men, more men than…
Women on the Move Annual Report 2018
Women on the Move is a CARE regional strategy to mobilise savings groups in West…
Financial Inclusion for Women: A Way Forward
Despite the general progress made in terms of financial inclusion worldwide (there has been a…
Women in Finance: A Case for Closing Gaps
Women are underrepresented at all levels of the global financial system, from depositors and borrowers…
Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality
Historically, women around the world have had fewer opportunities than men in education, employment, health…
Mainstreaming Gender and Targeting Women in Inclusive Insurance: Perspectives and Emerging Lessons
This collection of notes and case studies, Mainstreaming Gender and Targeting Women in Inclusive Insurance:…
Revisiting What Works: Women, Economic Empowerment and Smart Design
Expanding women’s economic opportunities benefits both women and society. While these benefits are increasingly well…
Promoting Women’s Financial Inclusion- a toolkit
Financial inclusion benefits individuals and households, and well-functioning financial systems benefit whole countries. However, access…
mWomen Marketing Handbook
This handbook is part of a portfolio of tools available to help mobile network operators…
Reaching Half of the Market: Women and Mobile Money
To reach scale and impact in their operations, mobile money operators cannot ignore women, who…