Can Financial Inclusion Help Reverse Women’s Inequality in Jordan?
Women’s entrepreneurship is on the rise globally, though it still lags behind men’s in most countries. The challenge is how to get female businesses out of a survivalist mode and onto a pathway of growth.
Does Informal Finance Still Matter?
Informal Savings Mechanisms (ISMs) have long been important to many people’s day-to-day money management across Africa. But as formal financial services become much more prevalent in the region, what will happen to these ISMs? Will they fall by the wayside as the digital revolution takes over?
Becoming Intentional About Learning
We need to prioritize organizational learning to develop and enhance financial inclusion interventions. Here are some tips for how to get started.
A New Financial Syntax for Illiterate and Low-literate People
Digital solutions that work well for literate people often fail to support inclusion among the estimated one billion adults worldwide who cannot read or write. My Oral Village is building on oral approaches to money management to broaden digital financial inclusion in Pakistan.
What Would People Say?
Women entrepreneurs or those taking on a new career path in Turkey often hear this phrase from society, discouraging them from taking on less traditional roles. But now organizations in the country are working to unpack and overcome the insidious effects of gender-based social norms on women’s financial health.
Empowerment Begins With Identity
Opening a bank account in many countries is a cumbersome process requiring official documents that women often don't have. Digital ID systems can make this process more accessible and help enable women’s financial inclusion.
FinDev Guide to Upcoming Financial Inclusion Events
A multitude of opportunities await you in 2020 for learning, networking and connecting with colleagues around the latest trends, issues and challenges in microfinance and financial inclusion. Check out these key training and event opportunities.
Postal Remittances Are Not Immune to a Pandemic
Early trends point to a drop in remittance volumes as Posts step up to serve their communities in a time of crisis
Urgent: A Rescue Plan for the Microfinance Sector
A proposal for key principles and structures to help MFIs and their clients survive the pandemic-induced economic crisis
COVID-19 FinDev Weekly Update | 17-23 April 2020
A roundup of the most relevant coronavirus-related news, resources and events from the past week, carefully curated by FinDev editors for the microfinance and financial inclusion community.