Tackling Financial Abuse of Women in Financial Inclusion: A Call to Action
Economic abuse against women and girls is a critical issue that's often overlooked, yet it profoundly impacts their financial independence and empowerment. In this second installment of the financial abuse mini blog series, FinEquity's Swati Mehta Dhawan, reflects on the role of the financial service providers and how they can effectively address financial abuse against women and girls.
How Do We Reach 80 Million Women and Increase Their Incomes by 30%?
Greta Bull of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation shares their latest thinking on achieving impact and building an inclusive credit ecosystem.
Is There a “Steel Bullet” for Helping Businesses Grow?
Financial diaries which provide microentrepreneurs with tailored business reports are helping them to grow their businesses, showing the power of access to data.
Member Spotlight: Lydia Baffour Awuah
FinEquity member and Opportunity International's Senior Programme Manager, Lydia Baffour Awuah, sat down with us to tell us about her work and how her organization is building financial resilience among rural women in Malawi by digitalizing savings groups.
Gender-Intentional Product Design in Africa: Successes and Challenges
A joint FinEquity Africa/DFI working group has been discussing how gender-intentional product design in Africa is increasingly recognized as a key strategy for closing the gender gap in financial inclusion. In this blog, FinEquity Africa's Regional Facilitator, Tariro Nyimo, shares some insights from the working group, drawing on examples such as Tyme Bank's community-focused approach and the partnership between Advans and CARE in Côte d'Ivoire.
Member Spotlight: Luisa Fernanda Villamil
FinEquity member and Desjardins International Development (DID)'s, Luisa Fernanda Villamil, sat down with us to tell us about her work and how DID is building financial resilience among women cocoa farmers in rural Colombia.
Member Spotlight: Chryspin Afifu
FinEquity member and International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)'s Gender and Women’s Economic Empowerment Specialist, Chryspin Afifu, sat down with us to tell us about his work and how ICRW is promoting design and delivery of social protection interventions that work for women in Kenya and Uganda through research.
Five Recommendations to Address Insurance Mis-selling
Rural customers in India face information asymmetry, high premiums and poor returns.
Can Smartphone-Supported Behavioral Biometrics Advance Digital Financial Inclusion?
Behavioral biometrics, an emerging technology which uses AI and machine learning to examine behavioral patterns to authenticate users, presents the financial inclusion sector with exciting opportunities as well as challenges.
Member Spotlight: Dr. Khetsiwe Dlamini
We caught up with FinEquity member and Triple C Advisory (TCA)'s Executive Director, Dr. Khetsiwe Dlamini, to learn more about her work and how she helped develop an African Women’s Financial and Economic Inclusion (AW-FEI) index.