The Gender-Climate Nexus in Financial Inclusion
This FinEquity blog series highlights cases to show how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.
Four Ways Funders Can Support Climate-Smart Women’s Financial Inclusion
Inclusive finance is a critical, yet underutilized, tool for supporting low-income women’s climate adaptation, and funders can play a key role by helping FSPs overcome key barriers to delivering climate-smart, gender-responsive financial products and services.
Boosting Women’s Climate Resilience: Three Areas to Support FSPs
This blog explores three key ways FSPs can be supported to offer inclusive financial solutions that boost low-income women’s climate adaptation and resilience—through better data use, stronger institutional capacity, and increased funding.
Breaking Silos for Women's Climate Resilience Through Financial Services: What’s the FinEquity Community of Practice up to?
This blog highlights how FinEquity members are bridging sectors to boost women’s climate resilience through financial services that support adaptation and long-term recovery.
Why Financial Inclusion Is the Cornerstone of Climate Resilience
This blog explores how women are bearing the brunt of climate change crises, why financial access is essential for fostering women’s and girls’ resilience and prosperity and how for gender-responsive financial approaches to be most effective, they must be supplemented by non-financial interventions.
Six Cross-Cutting Truths: Climate Shock-Proofing Women’s Financial Inclusion
This blog summarizes cross-cutting findings from a series of case studies highlighting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Village Enterprise’s and SEWA’s climate-smart innovations from the FinEquity Community that use financial coupled with non-financial interventions that are seeing to improve women’s resilience to climate events. What are we learning?
How SEWA is Building Collective Agency and Mitigating Risk for 3 Million Women in India
Climate insurance is crucial for building resilience and providing financial protection against climate shocks, but it cannot effectively function in isolation. This blog analyzes how the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in India works with low-income communities using a comprehensive approcach in integrating insurance with complementary financial and non-financial services.
Building Women’s Climate Resilience: What Can Financial Service Providers Do?
This blog is part of a FinEquity blog series highlighting how organizations in the Community of Practice are thinking about improving women’s resilience to climate events through inclusive finance, analyzing some recent trends, and providing some recommendations for those supporting innovators on this journey.