On Our Radar: March 2024
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.
FinEquity Africa On Our Radar: January 2024
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.
On Our Radar: February 2024
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.
Women Entrepreneurs: Creating Economic Opportunities in their Communities
In Paraguay, 50% of the workforce is made up of women, with 13% residing in communities with some of the highest poverty rates in the country. In this blog, we learn how Mujeres Transformadoras, an initiative of Fundación Capital is strengthening women's participation in community decision-making, improving their business skills, and expanding their access to resources in these poor communities.
Measuring WEE: Insights from #FinEquity2024
Measuring women’s economic empowerment is key to designing better and more useful financial services for women. This blog shares insights from Women's World Banking, CARE and WEE-Define on how to measure women's economic empowerment and resilience gained by women through financial inclusion programs.
Financial Health as a Consumer Journey
The deep value of a financial health framework is to enable financial service providers and regulators to step into customers' shoes and design products and policies that accompany and support them on their pathway to financial well-being.
Top Five Takeaways From the #FinEquity2024 Annual Convening
As part of the #FinEquity2024 Annual Meeting blog series, we reflect on key takeaways from the two-day event which explored how financial services can help women build resilience in the face of climate shocks and global volatility.
Beyond “The Poor”: Using Empowering Narratives to Advance the Impacts of Aid
Three reasons why the development community should lead the shift away from using language that emphasizes people’s deficits, and model how we can do better.
FinEquity and DSG Hub collaboration on Digitization of Savings Groups
FinEquity shares details of its collaboration with DSG Hub, to support the digitization of savings groups, a key priority for FinEquity stakeholders, in particular in Africa.
Digitally Empowering Small Businesses
To help measure the impact of digitalization programs, Decodis, in partnership with Fundación Capital and Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, created the Digital Stickiness Index (DSI): a holistic measure that encompasses the different aspects that define the digitalization journey of small businesses. This blog explains how the index works, how it acts as a measure of impact for women-led small businesses and how it can also provide direction to investors, practitioners, and donors seeking to boost women-led small businesses.