Women’s Financial Inclusion: A Catalyst for Sustainable Development
The panel will explore strategies to drive women’s financial inclusion, focusing on policy innovations, digital financial services, savings and loan groups, and public-private partnerships.
Ceniarth Leads $10 M Commitment to Deetken Impact’s Ilu Women’s Empowerment Fund
The investment from Ceniarth together with an aligned donor-advised fund will boost gender lens investing in Latin America & the Caribbean. Photo courtesy of Ilu Fund investee Acceso Financiero El Salvador.
IFC Invests in Asialink to Boost Small-Business Lending in the Philippines
IFC’s investment will help AFC in expanding its financing for MSMEs, with at least 60 percent of loan proceeds earmarked for women-owned or led MSMEs (WMSMEs).
Toronto Centre is Accepting Applications for 2025 International Women's Day Scholarships
Applications close on Friday, 28 February 2025. Winners will be announced on social media on International Women's Day.
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.
Symbiotics and VisionFund Issue $10 Million Bond to Support Livelihoods of Marginalized Women
This partnership enhances financial access for vulnerable populations across more than 25 countries, fostering economic empowerment with a focus on underserved communities worldwide.
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.
RBI’s innovation Arm, IIMA Ventures Launch Startup Program for Women’s Financial Inclusion
The program is currently inviting applications from startups working on gender-inclusive financial solutions, targeting those with a demonstrable minimum viable product and having received pre-seed to pre-Series A funding, or generating revenues or traction.