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Gender Gap
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…
Can Free Phones Close the Digital Gender Divide?
The gender gap in mobile phone ownership is well-documented. For years now, the financial inclusion…
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…
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…
Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!
Women’s-Global Development and Prosperity Initiative’s digital financial literacy campaign in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.
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…
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…
Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion
Digital financial services have expanded opportunities for millions of women across the globe. More than…
How Gender Impacts Insurance Perceptions
Pula, which provides accessible, scalable insurance solutions for smallholder farmers by bundling insurance with the…
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…
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…
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2020
This third edition of The Mobile Gender Gap Report will consider how women’s mobile access…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019
The GSMA’s Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019 outlines the changes in the gender gap among…
Bridging the mobile gender gap for refugees
This case study by GSMA highlights the experiences of refugee women (compared to men) with…
Exploring the Gender Gap in Identification: Policy Insights from 10 Countries
This 10-country study by the GSMA explores the intersection between cultural, social and policy barriers…
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…
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:…
G20 High-Level Principles for Digital Financial Inclusion
The G20 stands at an unprecedented time when leadership has the potential to drive the…
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…
Reaching Half of the Market: Women and Mobile Money
To reach scale and impact in their operations, mobile money operators cannot ignore women, who…