An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives, and articles to videos and social posts.

New research from the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, in partnership with Intuit, highlights the key experiences, challenges and opportunities from 1,156 women entrepreneurs in low and middle income countries with particular focus on digital, AI, networks, online gender-based violence, gender discrimination and accessing finance. The Foundation’s CEO, Dhivya O’Connor, shares what needs to be done so that women can overcome challenges and access opportunities.

FinEquity’s 2024 Annual Convening provided a space to take stock of work from its community on climate resilience for women. In this blog, FinEquity's Technical Advisory Committee member, Nandini Harihareswara, shares her top three takeaways on what we are learning from our community on how to improve women’s climate resilience.

FinEquityALC's Regional Lead, Mariana Martinez shares her main takeaways from the #FinEquityALC2024 annual convening, on key topics including gender-focused investment, intentional gender regulations and the power of gender-disaggregated data to accelerate women's financial inclusion.

FinEquity member and Desjardins International Development (DID)'s, Luisa Fernanda Villamil, sat down with us to tell us about her work and how DID is building financial resilience among women cocoa farmers in rural Colombia.

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FinEquity member and We-Fi Secretariat's Operations Officer, Farid Tadros, sat down with us to share about his work and We-Fi’s work on climate and how they are empowering women entrepreneurs to tackle climate challenges.

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives, and articles to videos and social posts.

Since 2021, GRID Impact has been working with the Inclusive Financial Systems team at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to examine barriers inhibiting women’s access to and usage of financial services. In this blog, Caroline Morrow discusses the importance of looking at barriers for specific women in specific contexts, shares insights into Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda, and provides reflections from the FinEquity Africa Annual Convening on the way forward. 

Intentionally embedding a gender lens in private investments can help grow women-led MSMEs. As part of the #FinEquity2024 Annual Meeting blog series, we share insights on how integrating a gender lens can yield both financial returns and social progress—with evidence of success from Women’s World Banking Asset Management and Deetken Impact’s Ilu Empowerment Fund.