On Our Radar: October 2023

FinEquity TAC member and CEO and president of Women's World Banking Mary Ellen Iskendarian argues that women with access to financial services are better equipped to deal with the shocks related to climate risks and to build their own resilience. 

These Guidelines include step-by-step guidance to formulate qualitative and quantitative indicators of gender transformative change to help gender experts and food security, agriculture and nutrition programme specialists in their efforts to design, implement, monitor and evaluate gender transformative interventions. These indicators should be distinctive from and a complement to other reach, benefit and empower indicators intended to contribute to gender equality outcomes in food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture.

Business Ready (B-READY) is the World Bank’s new flagship report benchmarking the business environment and investment climate in most economies worldwide. The report assesses the regulatory framework and public services directed at firms, and the efficiency with which regulatory framework and public services are combined in practice. 

This blog from the World Bank discusses the importance of an inclusive transition that reduces gender inequality, and  finance tools for driving climate impact and greater gender parity.  

The assessment by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) looks at the MSME landscape in Fiji, including the barriers faced by women entrepreneurs, and the business case for financial institutions in addressing these barriers. It offers several recommendations for the financial inclusion of women entrepreneurs.