Taking steps to address financial abuse offers an opportunity to better serve women. By applying a financial abuse lens, FSPs can better identify barriers that prevent women from fully utilizing financial services. This understanding paves the way for developing gender-responsive products that not only protect women from harm, but also expand access to underserved segments. In this blog, FinEquity's Swati Mehta Dhawan, shares how addressing this issue presents an opportunity for FSPs to reduce risks and create safer and more inclusive financial systems. 

VisionFund has been exploring how formal loans to savings groups can help overcome capital constraints and improve members’ resilience.

This guide shares resources from an in-depth literature review focused on women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in three countries: India, Kenya, and Uganda.

Early results from a BRAC International pilot show how financial literacy training can enhance the impact of financial inclusion.

Greta Bull of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares their latest thinking on achieving impact and building an inclusive credit ecosystem.

Claire Lossiané of YIKRI, winner of the 2023 European Microfinance Award, reflects on the MFI’s programs to combat malnutrition.

Eveline Tall, ambassador for AFAWA (Affirmative Finance Action for Women in Africa), shares why this initiative is necessary and how they are working to reduce the regional gender gap in financing.

To mark International Women's Day 2024, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.

This guide points readers to relevant resources that shed light on rural women’s exposure to climate change and emerging solutions that help them adapt and build their resilience.

While the spread of agent networks throughout rural India has helped bring banking to many people’s doorsteps, this type of service was inaccessible for informal groups until the recent spread of a new technical solution called Dual Authentication.