Financial inclusion is becoming more and more digital. To accelerate this journey to digitization, and not let…
women’s empowerment
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.…
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…
Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!
Women’s-Global Development and Prosperity Initiative’s digital financial literacy campaign in Ghana, Malawi and Uganda.
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Digital Finance (WEE-DiFine)
The White Paper focuses on developing a conceptual framework to explore the pathways linking WEE…
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,…
Case Study: Women’s Empowerment through Financial Inclusion Technology
This case study from FINCA speaks directly to the promotion of financial inclusion for women…
How to Measure the Gender Impact of Investments
Within the field of impact investing, the emergence of Gender-Smart Investing (GSI) carries major significance.…
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,…
Experiences in Gender-Sensitive Solutions to Collateral Constraints
A common theme that arises in agricultural lending is the topic of collateral. There is…
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…
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,…
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, 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…
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…
The Goalkeepers Report 2019: Examining inequality and how geography and gender stack the deck for (or against) you
Goalkeepers is the annual report from the Gates Foundation on the world’s progress toward the…
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…
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…
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…
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…
State of Practice: Savings Groups and the Role of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa
Savings Groups are community-based financial service providers that deliver basic financial services to millions of…
Fiscal Policies and Gender Equality
Historically, women around the world have had fewer opportunities than men in education, employment, health…
Theory of change (SF 2018-21)
This document outlines the theory of change underlying the results chain of the Strategic Framework,…
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…