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"Our Time As Leaders Has Come"
Women leaders in financial inclusion from around the globe answer the question: What message or advice would you give to women in the sector who would like to reach leadership positions in their institutions?
FinDev Interview
Why Do We Need a Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice?
CGAP’s Yasmin Bin-Humam discusses why gender is such a key topic in financial inclusion and what the Women's Financial Inclusion Community of Practice (COP) is up to.
FinDev Guide
Gateway Guide to Women’s Financial Inclusion
A guide to our most recent library resources on digital financial services for women, policies for promoting women’s financial inclusion, reviews of impact evaluations on women’s empowerment initiatives, and more.
FinDev Blog
The Story of Her: Gender Insights from FinScope
FinScope’s layered approach to data collection and analysis allows us to explore women’s empowerment at the individual, household, and community levels.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
FinDev Blog
Women’s Empowerment Indicators
Unlike other data sources, FII data has a dedicated gender module measuring women’s economic empowerment, which aims to assess whether women's access to finance results in empowerment.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
FinDev Blog
Sowing Digital Seeds
Given the rapid expansion of digital financial services (DFS) use cases in agriculture, the burning question now is: How can women benefit from these tools at equal rates as men?
By Shelley Spencer, Strategic Impact Advisors, Rachel Sberro-Kessler, World Bank
FinDev Blog
How to Bring More Women into Mobile Money
To improve the user experience of mobile money smartphone apps and help overcome barriers for women, GRID Impact uses human-centered design - creating solutions with women, not just for women.
By Alexandra Fiorillo, GRID Impact
FinDev Blog
Making the Gender Gap Visible
Parsing through mountains of financial inclusion data to find meaningful patterns to advance women’s financial inclusion is overwhelming. CGAP’s Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice guides you through the data.
By Soham Banerji, CGAP
FinDev Blog
Last Mile Financial Inclusion: What Will It Take to Reach More Rural Women?
Digital services - with their geographic reach, ease of use, and transparency - are driving financial inclusion and alleviating poverty. But are rural women being left behind? Learn more at #SEEP2017.
By Kathleen Colson, Blandina Kilama, Sarah Gammage
FinDev Interview
Can One Billion Women Become Economically Empowered by 2030?
Cindy Drakeman of DoubleXEconomy shares thoughts on women’s economic empowerment and microfinance