Zari is a six-year-old girl who goes to school, skateboards and learns about making healthy choices – and is the most recognized children’s television character in Afghanistan. She is featured on Sesame Garden, the nation’s version of Sesame Street. She is also changing minds around the acceptability of girls’ education in a country with some of the lowest rates of girls’ primary school attendance in the world.

Integrating social and behavior change communication in women’s economic empowerment programming to address social gender norms that affect financial inclusion.

In this publication, as part of its Low-Income Lives series, MicroSave highlights the results from its research on the perceptions around existing financial products and the need for new ones among the Central Java’s rural youth.

Challenging gender inequalities that impede women’s economic empowerment

Exploring the gender gap through data from smallholder surveys in Tanzania and Mozambique

Annex to the official CGAP brief "Female Smallholders in the Financial Inclusion Agenda"