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Sending Cash Transfers to Women: How to Design Programs that Enhance Well-Being While Safeguarding Against Intimate Partner Violence
This report examines existing evidence on the impact of cash transfers on intimate partner violence against women and proposes design approaches to mitigate and minimize those risks.
UNCDF: Gender Equality Strategy 2022-2025
The Strategy highlights the centrality of addressing structural and discriminatory practices, and creating a conducive policy and institutional framework as an important foundation on which to build a financing agenda that targets equitable economic development and gender-responsive transformation.
Understanding Women Micro-Entrepreneurs’ Use of Mobile Phones for Business
This report provides new data and insights from 10 low- and middle-income countries on the use of mobile phones by women micro-entrepreneurs and the challenges that prevent them from using mobile services for business.
Activa Cameroon - Insuring Women for a Better Future
This case study showcases the business case for women's insurance in Cameroon.
Insuring Women in Sri Lanka with AIA Insurance Lanka Limited
This case study explores how AIA Sri Lanka remained resilient and dedicated to becoming the preferred life insurer for women, at a time when addressing the gender protection gap was more needed than ever.
Investing in Equitable AI for Inclusive Finance
This publication gives an overview of the use cases of AI in inclusive finance and some of the drivers of harmful AI bias towards women.
The Digital Transformation of Small and Micro-Businesses in Bangladesh
This report provides an analysis of the second phase of the Build Back Better—Enhancing Recovery and Resilience of Small and Micro-Businesses (SMB) project in Bangladesh since 2020.
Making Digital Public Infrastructure Work for Women
This policy brief offers recommendations that leverage digital public infrastructure to enable and advance women’s economic empowerment through financial inclusion.
Advancing Gender Equality While Driving Business Growth
This brief outlines why financial service providers should advance gender equality in financial inclusion and how they can approach this process.
Bolstering Women’s Climate Resilience and Adaptation Through Financial Services
This working paper illustrates how women are differently impacted by climate change and how financial services can play a better role in strengthening their autonomous adaptive capacities to climate change.