Grameen Foundation Launches Initiative to End Financial Abuse: Program SAFE
This comprehensive initiative aims to raise awareness, provide support services, and build a global coalition to safeguard against financial abuse in all its forms.
African Guarantee Fund and Kenya Women Microfinance Bank Ink Deal to Strengthen Women's Access to Finance
African Guarantee Fund (AGF) has signed a Sh725 million ($5.37 million) risk-sharing partnership agreement with the Kenya Women Microfinance Bank (KWFT).
Banking on Women Who Trade Across Borders
Drawing from interviews across Africa and Latin America, this report explores the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs and proposes solutions.
Gender-Disaggregated Data in Financial Institutions: A Pragmatic Perspective
This article proposes a pragmatic approach, with tangible use cases and best practices for collecting, analyzing and using gender-disaggregated data to accelerate women's financial inclusion.
Philippines: Community Bank Champions Women’s Empowerment Through Financial Inclusion
Since adopting the UN Sustainable Development Goals as part of its sustainability framework in 2010, BDO has reported that 66 percent of its micro, small, and medium enterprises clients for BDONB are women-owned as of 2022.
BIGD Releases Two Requests for Research Proposals on Women’s Economic Empowerment
Both WEE-Connect and WEE-DiFine are currently accepting proposals for rigorous research studies based in Sub Saharan Africa, South Asia, and Southeast Asia.
Policy Diagnostic: Women in Leadership
This policy diagnostic presents policymakers with an overview of gender balance in the finance industry and then focuses on key areas for advancing women’s movement into, and active participation in, executive and other leadership roles.
From Collateral to Cashflow: Expanding Access to Finance for Nigeria’s Female Business Owners
This research examines how two commercial banks are developing innovative credit solutions to expand access to finance for women entrepreneurs.