Evidence Review on the Role of Male Engagement in Women’s Economic Empowerment Programs
This review presents four different reports which outline key findings and recommendations based on the most effective methods for integrating men in the process of women's empowerment.
Building Women’s Financial Capability: A Path Toward Transformation
This publication examines how best to share information, build financial capability and enable lasting behavior change in a context in which women may have limited say in their own economic choices.
Gender and Cash In / Cash Out (CICO) Networks
This slide deck shows how to apply a gender lens to CICO network development and presents case studies that demonstrate how gender-intentional design works in practice.
Fintech Lender Amartha Bags $28M From Women's World Banking to Fund Indonesia's Microentrepreneurs
WWB Capital Partners II is the second gender-lens investment fund established by Women’s World Banking aiming to close the gender gap by investing in high-performing financial service providers that serve low-income women.
How Regulators Use Sex-Disaggregated Data and Regtech to Enhance Financial Inclusion
This study examines the role that financial services regulators can play in efforts to address financial inclusion of women.
Leadership as a Driver of Innovative Financial Services for Women
The guiding hypothesis of this research is that technical know-how and leadership competencies will enable executives to drive women’s financial inclusion on a greater scale than ever before
Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to aid the design and implementation of women's financial inclusion and empowerment programs.
Enabling Women’s Financial Inclusion Through Digital Financial Literacy
This brief helps unpack the different dimensions of digital financial literacy (DFL) and demonstrate why they should not be tackled in isolation as they are very much connected. It includes four case studies of organizations addressing DFL in their work in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Ghana.
WEE-DiFine Initiative: Request for Proposals for Small Grants up to $50,000
Based at the BRAC Institute of Governance and Development in Bangladesh, the Initiative supports rigorous research projects exploring this theme in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa.
IFC, Banco Daycoval Support Smaller Businesses, Including Those Owned by Women, in Brazil
The financing package consists of $130 million from IFC's own-account and a $270 million syndicated loan from a group of 10 banks.