FinEquity Monitor

This publication by the Toronto Centre explores how the authorities in Kenya, Zambia, Colombia, and Peru collect, analyze, and use sex-disaggregated data. It considers how that data relates to regulatory mandates and activities, and to the wider national effort to enhance the financial inclusion of women.

This publication by the Center for Financial Inclusion explores what algorithms can say about who is creditworthy in emerging markets, the risks for those it leaves out, and what it all might mean for inclusive finance.

This working paper published by the Bank for International Settlements looks at a novel survey of over 27,000 adults from 28 major economies to investigate gender differences in the adoption of new financial technology, allowing for a systematic assessment of gender differences in the use of fintech and potential drivers at the individual and country level.

This brief is a FinEquity community effort and it is meant to help the financial inclusion community understand digital financial literacy and better address this component of the digital financial services gender gap. The synthesis is organized by enablers (literacy, numeracy, access, awareness, and design) and their associated challenges, and highlights the cross-cutting constraint (social norms).

This report by Women’s World Banking focuses on building the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary for customers to engage with digital financial services – and with that, goes beyond the work to date on financial literacy, financial capability, and digital literacy. It also offers practical tools to develop digital financial capability initiatives that promote women’s active engagement in digital financial services and their economic empowerment.

This Guideline Note by the Alliance for Financial Inclusion presents key considerations for regulators and policymakers to understand, develop, facilitate policies, and design interventions at advancing digital financial literacy.

This brief by the Evidence Consortium on Women’s Groups presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts— with a deep dive into Nigeria and Uganda—on how COVID-19 has affected savings groups and how these groups have helped mitigate the pandemic’s negative consequences in sub-Saharan Africa.

This review by the Resilience Evaluation, Analysis and Learning (REAL) consortium indicates that Self-help groups (SHGs), and women’s groups more broadly, can have substantial consequences for a range of women’s psychosocial factors. The evidence strongly indicates that psychosocial factors such as social capital and women’s empowerment are important sources of resilience.

The toolkit by GIZ provides an overview of women’s financial inclusion, its importance, and benefits, then delves into project scoping, design, implementation, and measurement. It gathers tools, guidance, and project ideas and contains seven detailed case studies from various countries with different challenges, target groups, and activities.