Around the world, 2 billion people remain unbanked and women lag behind men in terms of access to formal accounts, credit, and savings products. FinEquity, a community of practice to empower women through financial inclusion, is convened by CGAP. It provides facilitated platforms to share experiences, identify key challenges, document and discuss emerging good practices, and solve common problems associated with increasing equitable access to and use of a broad range of financial services. Learn More

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As part of the #FinEquity2024 Annual Meeting blog series, we reflect on key takeaways from the two-day event which explored how financial services can help women build resilience in the face of climate shocks and global volatility. 

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Rathi Mani-Kandt, Director of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion at CARE USA, shares success stories from their Ignite program and the launch of Strive Women, a new four-year program that will work to strengthen the financial health and resilience of more than 300,000 small businesses in Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam.

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Women-led MSMEs play a crucial role in their local economies, driving job creation, innovation, combating climate change, and ensuring food security. Despite this, significant gaps in access to appropriate financial services persists. This blog provides a few practical examples of how gender lens investing can incentivize FSPs to serve women entrepreneurs.

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

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

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

Latest Publications

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This paper explores how supply-side gender-disaggregated data has been collected and used, mainly by financial sector authorities but also by providers, and the challenges and opportunities associated with this work.

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This study takes a comprehensive look at the relationship between financial inclusion and economic empowerment through contextual factors such as social norms, income, and financial capability among women artisans in Indonesia.

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This report offers an in-depth look at the impact of microfinance and financial services on women's financial resilience, access to finance, and on their businesses and households.