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Revolutionizing Product Design in Financial Services

This publication provides FSPs the knowledge to use women-centered design for developing financial products and services that work for women.

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Advancing Gender Equality While Driving Business Growth

This brief outlines why financial service providers should advance gender equality in financial inclusion and how they can approach this process.

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Bolstering Women’s Climate Resilience and Adaptation Through Financial Services

This working paper illustrates how women are differently impacted by climate change and how financial services can play a better role in strengthening their autonomous adaptive capacities to climate change.

News

IFC Launches Women’s Economic Empowerment Program in Tanzania

Anaweza: She Can, launched by IFC, is a wide-ranging program to empower women across Tanzania's economy to access financing, attain leadership positions in the private sector, and launch or grow businesses.

FinDev Blog

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.

FinDev Interview

Investing in Gender Diversity and Women’s Leadership

Adama Bah of Oikocredit shares how her organization works with financial service provider partners to advance women’s economic empowerment.

FinDev Blog

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.

FinDev Interview

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.

FinDev Blog

We Have All the Data We Need on Women’s Financial Inclusion. Why Isn’t Anyone Using It?

In the third installment in our Leadership Insights series, Mary Ellen Iskenderian discusses the data we have about women's financial inclusion – and why it's not yet being used to tap into this underserved and promising market. 

FinDev Interview

Combating Restrictive Gender Norms in Pakistan

Roshaneh Zafar of Kashf Foundation shares how her organization is tackling key barriers to women’s economic empowerment.