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Boosting Women’s Climate Resilience: 3 Areas to Support FSPs
This blog explains and explores three key areas (1) data analysis and evidence, (2) capacity building, and (3) adequate funding, in which FSPs can be supported to provide solutions that strengthen low-income women’s climate adaptation and resilience through inclusive finance.
2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit Reflection
FinEquity Africa Facilitator Tariro Nyimo shares her insights and reflections on the 2024 Pathway-to-17 Summit which focused on gender equality and included impactful discussions, innovative solutions, and a collaborative energy that made the event a powerful platform for advancing women’s economic empowerment through financial inclusion in Africa.
Breaking Silos for Women's Climate Resilience through financial services: What’s the FinEquity Community of Practice up to?
This blog explores how FinEquity members’ strategies are responding to the cross-sectoral implications of climate risks, especially when it comes to looking at the way financial services can enable the adaption and resilience-building efforts of women and girls. It reveals several insights on relevant shifts in donor and NGO priorities that prioritize cross-sectoral strategic approaches.
Why Financial Inclusion Is the Cornerstone of Climate Resilience
This blog by Women's World Banking, explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.
Six Cross-Cutting Truths: Climate Shock-Proofing Women’s Financial Inclusion
This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?
How SEWA is Building Collective Agency and Mitigating Risk for 3 Million Women in India
Climate insurance is crucial for building resilience and providing financial protection against climate shocks, but it cannot effectively function in isolation. This blog analyzes how the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India works with low-income communities using a comprehensive approcach in integrating insurance with complementary financial and non-financial services.
Member Spotlight: Joanna Romero
FinEquity member and Women's Finance Exchange's Lead Gender Finance Expert, Joanna Romero, sat down with us to tell us about her work and how her organization has been helping to promote alternative data to assess creditworthiness for female entrepreneurs.
Building Women’s Climate Resilience: What Can Financial Service Providers Do?
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.
Cracking the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code
In October 2023, World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) became a proud signatory of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE Finance Code), committing to an annual collection of gender-disaggregated financing indicators from its 100+ member financial institutions. In this blog, WSBI's Senior Program Manager, Céline Stevens shares challenges, innovative solutions, and lessons learned in implementing the WE Finance Code.
On Our Radar: December 2024
An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts.