Why a Segmentation Strategy Matters for Serving the Women’s Market
This paper explores the needs and preferences of specific women’s market segments as well as tries to understand how a segmentation strategy can support banks to better serve different women segments.
Addressing Gender Norms to Increase Financial Inclusion: Designing for Impact
This guide advocates for funders to use the market system development approach and proactively take gender norms into account when working to increase women’s financial inclusion.
Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
Gender-Smart Investing in MENA
The goal of this Brief is to catalyze discussion and action across gender-smart investing practitioners, Egyptian firms and impact investors.
Towards Responsible Digitization of Merchants in Rural India for COVID-19 Recovery
These 10 recommendations aim to unlock the impact of fintech in merchant digitization, particular for women, and to further India’s progress on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals.
Normative Constraints to Women’s Financial Inclusion: What We Know and What We Need to Know
This paper brings together the evidence of what is known on norms and financial inclusion and uses cases to demonstrate aspects of and approaches to addressing discriminatory norms throughout the financial system.
Understanding Micro- and Small-Growth Entrepreneurs in Vietnam, Pakistan and Peru
This report provides an overview of "the current state of strivers" across these countries with an aim to understand the emerging unmet needs through market assessments.
Women’s Economic Empowerment and Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: Levers to Move Women From Inclusion to Empowerment
Grounded in an analysis of norms governing women’s agency, ability to enact preferences, bargaining power and financial independence, this report provides a conceptual framework to move Indonesian women from financial inclusion to empowerment.
Evidence Review on the Role of Male Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
This review presents four different reports which outline key findings and recommendations based on the most effective methods for integrating men in the process of women's empowerment.