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How to Design Client-Centric Financial Solutions for Women Smallholders
BRAC International Microfinance shares five lessons from their experience designing and testing tailor-made agri-credit solutions in Rwanda, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
By Sadiaa Haque & Tahjib Shamsuddin, BRAC International Microfinance
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A Win for Women in Rwanda
Mobile money – and concerted efforts by government and mobile money operators to promote it - has helped reduce the financial inclusion gender gap. But more needs to be done.
By Christine Hougaard & Fiacre N. Mushimire, Cenfri
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Sweeter Prospects for Cocoa Farmers
Cocoa is one of the world’s most prized foods, but the smallholder farmers in Cote d’Ivoire who produce it live in extreme poverty. Formal land ownership can improve their financial outlook.
By Scott Graham & Anahit Tevosyan, Finca International
FinDev Blog
Blazing a Trail for Women’s Financial Inclusion in Nigeria
The Central Bank of Nigeria has identified eight Strategic Imperatives. With their respective communities of practice, they aim to close the country’s financial inclusion gender gap.
By Sophia O. Abu, Central Bank of Nigeria
FinDev Blog
Using Data and Machine Learning to Close the Gender Gap in DR Congo
Differences in product awareness show that we need to look deeper at sub-segments among women if we want to achieve equality of financial access.
By Scott Graham & Anahit Tevosyan, FINCA International
FinDev Blog
Top Five Digital Financial Service Features That Impact Women’s Access and Use
Research in Kenya and Côte d’Ivoire provides guidance for DFS providers and regulators on how to help ensure that digital tools make women more - not less - financially included.
By Hélène Smertnik & Savita Bailur, Caribou Digital
FinDev Blog
It’s Time to Address the Financing Gap for Female Tech Entrepreneurs in Africa
How can we get more investment to women-led companies and more women in the investment pipeline?
By Gloria Muhoro, African Development Bank
FinDev Blog
Can You Use Digital Finance If You Can’t Read?
Access to a mobile phone is not enough. The BOMA Project works to overcome illiteracy and innumeracy to bring digital financial services to women living in extreme poverty in sub-Saharan Africa.
By Nicole Mills
FinDev Blog
The Gender Gap is Wide. Which FinTechs Are Working to Narrow It?
A new Female-Focused Fintech Prize aims to connect and bring attention to fintech products working for women.
By Alina Kaiser, DFS Lab
FinDev Blog
Two Steps Behind: Social Inequality Poses a Challenge for Women’s Financial Inclusion in DR Congo
A recent FINCA survey of clients in DR Congo shows that women entrepreneurs are confined to the smallest, least profitable businesses. Getting a realistic picture of the obstacles women face helps prepare us for the task ahead of shifting the ground in women’s favor.
By Scott Graham, FINCA International