Around the world, 2 billion people remain unbanked and women lag behind men in terms of access to formal accounts, credit, and savings products. FinEquity, a community of practice to empower women through financial inclusion, is convened by CGAP. It provides facilitated platforms to share experiences, identify key challenges, document and discuss emerging good practices, and solve common problems associated with increasing equitable access to and use of a broad range of financial services. Learn More
This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.
A joint FinEquity Africa/DFI working group has been discussing how gender-intentional product design in Africa is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for closing the gender gap in financial inclusion. In this blog, FinEquity Africa's Regional Facilitator, Tariro Nyimo, shares some insights from the working group, drawing on examples such as Tyme Bank's community-focused approach and the partnership between Advans and CARE in Côte d'Ivoire.
This webinar introduced the concept of economic abuse against women and girls, discussed a working definition, and provided insights from work by Grameen Foundation, Surviving Economic Abuse UK, and IFC in this sector.
Seven of FinEquity's WEE Co-Lab partners tested a draft WEE measurement questionnaire, based on a background paper published last year. This webinar shared experiences from the the Co-Lab participants, the final set of indicators as well as guidance on how to incorporate the indicators into your organization's measurement of WEE.
Hosted by FinEquity and the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP), this webinar provided a comprehensive understanding into the concept of Gender Lens Investing, exploring the expected outcomes and potential challenges for financial inclusion players engaged in this field.
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This study explores the role of informal savings mechanisms, such as the group-based savings system called Ajo or Esusu in the south-west of Nigeria, in promoting financial inclusion in Nigeria, and particularly among women.
This Brief is part of a series of case studies documenting work done by FinEquity community members to increase women’s climate resilience.
This Brief is part of a series of case studies documenting work done by community members to increase women’s climate resilience, with the hope to inspire financial service providers and other stakeholders to start addressing the specific financial service needs of women in the face of climate change.