Financial Inclusion That Works for Women

This event will discuss the European Microfinance Award 2022 on Financial Inclusion that Works for Women, case studies, factors for success and mainstreaming gender in financial inclusion.

The European Microfinance Award 2022 was on "Financial Inclusion that Works for Women", a year-long process that this year received a record 88 applications from organizations all over the world, and which over several evaluations stages was reduced to ten semi-finalists and, among them, three finalists. Since 2016, FIF UK has partnered with the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP) to present the landscape, findings and best practices from the preceding year’s Award, and continuing this, this event will present the most recent e-MFP publication, also entitled Financial Inclusion that Works for Women, the case studies of the ten organizations presented within, and the factors for success that emerged from the process.

The session will be led by the publication's lead author Sam Mendelson, a longstanding FIF UK board member, and bring together several gender experts to discuss what financial inclusion organizations can do to mainstream gender within and outside the organization.