Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.

This webinar presented findings and themes in the e-MFP Financial Inclusion Compass 2024, which features new questions on fraud, biodiversity, reputation, missed opportunities and even what "financial inclusion" actually means: is it, beyond re-branding, meaningfully different from "microfinance"? 

In this webinar, we heard from the authors of two books who took us through the journey of microfinance and the story of BRAC and Grameen Bank, two innovative institutions that contributed to Bangladesh’s development and the spread of microfinance globally.

In this workshop, FinEquity, FAW, and RISE explored how gender-intelligent design can play a meaningful role in advancing women’s financial inclusion.

This clinic examined how financial service providers (FSPs) can use financial diaries research to design and improve product offerings for women.

The third workshop of the ‘Design in Action’ series explored the importance of consumer protection that is designed to meet women’s financial needs. 

This workshop featured one of the key tools from FinEquity's resource guide on gender diversity and leadership.

This second webinar in the ‘Design in Action’ series focused on the work done by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and ideas42 to design financial heuristics for rural women in Ethiopia and to pilot mobile-phone based financial training for women. 

This webinar discussed the development of a core set of indicators to measure Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) within financial inclusion (FI) programs and initiatives to help stakeholders better understand the outcomes of FI on women. 

Our #FinEquity2023  Annual Meeting of the global FinEquity community convened by CGAP brought participants together to talk about why and how a relentless focus on women is needed in times of increasing climatic stress—women are the first victims of climate change, and they have a crucial part to play in a fairer climate transition.