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The RICHES Toolkit
The RICHES Toolkit includes 13 guides and trainings containing 46 tools. It has been designed for Women’s Economic Empowerment Actors to equip them with practical ideas and tools to integrate and assess child protection and safe business practices throughout their work.
What it Takes: Insights From Women Leaders in Financial Inclusion
This case study research shares the insights of past program participants in order to motivate other aspiring women leaders, provoke conversation, and inspire new career pathways.
Women’s Agent Network—the Missing Link in India’s Financial Inclusion Story: A Supply-Side Perspective
The business correspondent model in India enables the banking system to expand its outreach at a low cost and offer essential financial services in remote and underserved areas. This paper share a supply-side perspective on challenges and opportunities for expanding women agent network in India.
Catalyzing Innovation for Women Entrepreneurs
This research, focusing on 328 women entrepreneurs in Samoa, Cambodia and Fiji, explores the challenges faced by women entrepreneurs in accessing and using financing at different stages of their enterprise journey.
Digital Inclusion and Empowerment of Women Entrepreneurs in the Post-pandemic Era: T20 Indonesia Policy Brief
This brief provides recommendations to the G20 to support the digital inclusion and empowerment of women-led and women-owned SMEs.
Gender-Aware Supervision Toolkit
This practical, hands-on resource intends to highlight the relevance of gender inclusion and awareness to supervisory authorities and support them in taking their next steps towards more gender-aware supervision.
Better Practice Guidance on Women’s Digital Financial Capability
This document outlines four steps to work through when designing approaches to women’s digital financial capability: Diagnose, Design, Deliver, and Document.
Beyond Wage Digitization: Financial Capability and Economic Empowerment of Cambodian Women Migrant Workers
Findings from a survey of 2,781 participants providing an analysis of the levels of financial awareness, financial behaviors, and economic empowerment of women factory workers in Cambodia.
Gender Lens Investing Landscape: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Financial Inclusion for Women
This report provides evidence that while microfinance has been a driver of economic opportunities for underserved women globally, a more well-rounded gender lens investing approach is required to generate the level of impact necessary to truly advance financial inclusion for women.
Gender-Intelligent Fintech Design: How Fintechs Can Capture the Female Economy
This report quantifies the opportunity cost of not taking a gender-intelligent approach and lays out a map that fintechs can use to improve conversion rates of women through each stage of the funnel, equipping fintechs and their investors to take the steps to win the women’s market.