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.

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?

The policy framework mandates that in next five years 70 percent of all new clients onboarded by the NBFMCs shall be women.

This Toronto Centre Note explores how financial supervisors can evaluate business models to prevent prudential and conduct failures and how to engage with boards and senior management on this topic to mitigate risks and ensure long-term resilience.

This policy brief explores a range of regulatory approaches to VAs highlighting the best practices from different jurisdictions to inform the development of comprehensive frameworks that balance financial inclusion with effective risk management.

Supporting financial regulators to develop policies that close the gender gap in financial inclusion; building the women’s leadership pipeline in regulatory organizations.

This report aims to help AFI members understand the barriers and enablers of gender inclusive finance. 

The Gender Inclusive Finance policy model consolidates global knowledge and showcases effective approaches that are advancing women’s financial inclusion and narrowing gender gaps in formal financial services access and usage.

These companion reports analyze the current state of data exchange in four leading markets highlighting their innovative approaches and the practical challenges they face during implementation.

This study analyzes the impact of financial inclusion on various bank risk dimensions, including systemic risk, which has been underexplored.