Guide to Upcoming Events on Women's Financial Inclusion

This event will highlight key trends in the field of gender-smart investing, such as the amount of capital deployed across sectors and regions, and areas of focus for investors. Speakers will share approaches undertaken across the World Bank Group to channel more investment capital towards efforts that remove barriers to women’s ownership of and control of assets, such as housing and financial services.

Watch Women's World Banking's expert panel discuss the real-life barriers slowing down gender diverse leadership and tangible examples on how to successfully engage men in finance, the current majority of decision-holders, to support progress, especially for women.

This webinar will feature female leaders who champion financial resilience towards climate disasters and other shocks in Africa. The event will serve as a platform for female risk financing champions to discuss the challenges, opportunities and successes they have experienced in advancing the financial resilience agenda in their countries.

Join Caribou Digital on International Women’s Day for a dialogue on their on-going research on women and platform work, in partnership with Mastercard Foundation.

During this webinar, a panel of experts will explore the question of how the impact of external shocks on women entrepreneurs and the institutions that serve them can be reduced.

Join this panel of guest experts to deep dive into how algorithmic bias affects women and people of color, particularly in financial services. The panel will also talk about what businesses and data scientists can do to mitigate the harm, and what governments and regulators might need to do in the future.

This panel will discuss how financial inclusion helps combat bias and break the barriers to gender equality, and the role of financial authorities in supporting positive change.

This virtual forum will be filled with presenters and discussions dedicated to advancing women's economic empowerment and financial resilience.

Learn from inspiring women in the financial sector who are committed to sensitizing staff at all managerial levels towards gender issues and equity. Discuss how to successfully boost gender lens finance in support of women’s financial inclusion. 

This webinar will explore the opportunities, potential pitfalls and future innovations on the horizon that may address the digital gender gap. The panel of experts will discuss deep-rooted gender biases, affordability and the lack of trust and education for digital solutions that hinders access for women.

The European Microfinance Award 2022 "Financial Inclusion that Works for Women" highlights organizations working in financial inclusion that aim to understand and meet women's challenges and aspirations in order to go beyond traditional gender outreach strategies. During this application guidance session (in English) the e-MFP team will go over the Award process and reply to any questions that potential applicants may have.

This session will outline the challenges facing women regarding access to digital financial services in West Africa as well as the potential impact of a regional approach to overcoming these barriers.

Join FinEquityALC in celebrating Women's Month in this event with the regulator in Mexico. CNBV will share disaggregated gender data collected among financial institutions and discuss changes in the regulation that allows women in Mexico to have access to finance at lower interest rates.

This webinar, organized by the French Development Agency (AFD), focuses on the link between gender and climate. This event will highlight the challenges, current issues, and existing solutions from development organizations, with a focus on the agricultural and rural sectors.

This high-level event will feature ministers from across the Middle East and North Africa and will highlight the nature and extent of human capital losses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and stress the need for countries to invest both in recovering as well as reimagining human capital.