Green Inclusive Finance: Necessity and Opportunity for MFIs in Middle East and North Africa
How can the region’s microfinance sector help manage climate risks and continue to protect and improve livelihoods?
Meeting the Needs of Unbanked Women in the Digital Era
How can the unique needs of unbanked women be met with mobile money? In this blog, WomenSave shares findings from their research in Uganda on how to empower these women to use digital financial services to meet their financial goals.
Member Spotlight: Getaneh Gobezie
Getaneh Gobezie, an independent consultant and FinEquity Africa member, sat down with us to share his motivation to work on inclusive financing in rural areas and lessons learned from working on inclusive financing in Ethiopia, Uganda, Liberia, and Rwanda.
Improving Financial Management Training for Women Entrepreneurs: Are Heuristics the Answer?
In this blog, Catherine Highet explores the use of heuristic-based financial training by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and ideas42 as an alternative and promising option to traditional classroom-based trainings for financial management.
FinEquity Africa On Our Radar: May 2023
An updated take on "What We're Reading", the FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives, and articles to videos and social posts.
Unlocking Women’s Potential Through Financial Inclusion in Africa
Based on FinEquity Africa's first in-person social event in Nairobi, this blog discusses ways to bridge the current gap in financial inclusion for African women and unlock their full potential.
On Our Radar: September 2023
An updated take on "What We're Reading", the FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts.
A Fair Digital Finance Market Failure: What a Recent Consumer Protection Index Reveals
The fair digital finance index measures the consumer experience of digital financial services and has found that, while stark global differences do exist, consumer protection needs remain unmet across the board.
Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion in 2024
The landscape of women’s financial inclusion efforts is constantly evolving. This blog shares findings from FinEquity's 2023 Global Consultation and how these findings have shaped the CoP's priority areas of focus moving forward.
Agent Gender Matters, but How to Recruit and Retain Women Agents?
This blog post shares four strategies to help FSPs overcome the obstacles they face in onboarding female agents and create an environment that encourages women to join and thrive as agents.