Findings on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impaired the quality of life of economically disadvantaged populations around the world

Participants of FinEquity’s inaugural Tools Workshop “Why does she behave the way she does? - Using Personas to unpack gendered social norms for financial inclusion" learned how to develop social norms-informed Personas through a series of hands-on exercises.

This month we bring you a list of key publications on women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment compiled with FinDev Gateway as well as blogs on the digital gender divide and the key takeaways from our first Tools Workshop. 

This study argues that adequate regulation is vital to delivering big data and machine learning's promises in financial services while ensuring fairness and public interest.

This webinar will present the findings of two new reports on the impacts of COVID on women's groups in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.

This report identifies bottlenecks in lenders' strategies and processes in assessing the bankability of agri-SMEs and details their bankability metrics.

This study aims to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women-led MSMEs in 13 African countries hoping to contribute to further strengthening of outcomes for those MSMEs.

This research explores the PAYGo solar model's potential to serve as a pathway to women's energy access and financial inclusion, examining gender differences in access to PAYGo and impacts from use of off-grid solar devices.