All Publications
Understanding Women’s Access to Credit and Loans
This publication offers an overview and gender-disaggregated data analysis of the Nigerian lending market, and provides valuable insights on 100 million adult Nigerians' behaviors and financial preferences.
Women in the Platform Economy: Emerging Insights
This slide deck shares female workers’ experiences and how financial services can help make platforms more inclusive.
Measuring Fees and Transparency in Nigeria’s Digital Financial Services
This study investigates three key barriers preventing many potential customers from joining the formal financial system: the reliability of financial services, the cost of using these services, and the limited transparency of cost information.
Digital Financial Services in Nigeria: State of the Market Report 2021
This publication aims to challenge stakeholder's thinking about financial products and services, and stimulate new approaches to addressing the gaps in financial services.
Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap
This paper presents research findings on the key challenges women face in accessing digital financial services and the design opportunities for the financial sector, policymakers and regulators, the philanthropic sector, NGOs, and designers everywhere.
Financial Solutions for Women in Rural and Agricultural Livelihoods
This research provides insights on the disproportionate need and strategic opportunity for improving the lives and livelihoods of rural women.
COVID-19: Crisis as Opportunity for Urban Cash Transfers?
Based on a literature review and case studies of various urban cash transfer schemes in response to the COVID-19 crisis, this paper explores the successes and challenges of implementing cash transfers in urban settings in response to a large, covariate shock.
Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to aid the design and implementation of women's financial inclusion and empowerment programs.
Social Media Usage by Digital Finance Consumers
This project analysis provides insights into the types of consumer protection issues faced by consumers across financial providers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.
Evidence Review of Women's Groups and COVID-19: Impacts, Challenges, and Policy Implications for Savings Groups in Africa
This brief presents emerging evidence from studies in diverse African contexts on how COVID-19 has affected savings groups and how these groups have helped mitigate the pandemic’s negative consequences in sub-Saharan Africa.