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MM4P to Host Lab Session at European Development Days “Questioning Digital Finance’s Ability to Empower Women”

On 6 June, 2018 the Mobile Money for the Poor (MM4P) program of the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF MM4P) will be moderating a Lab Debate session at the European Development Days 2018.

Four experts have been invited to take sides in answering this question: ‘Does digital finance afford empowerment opportunities to women clients, employees, and agents, or is it just a set of false promises?’

During the debate, the pro side will support the case of digital finance helping to create opportunities for women’s economic empowerment. The con side will argue that digital finance has not lived up to their development promises, especially for women, because we are getting distracted from the real problems: women’s role and status in their household and society as well as technological and regulatory challenges that limit women’s full access to and use of digital finance.