To mark International Women's Day 2025, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.

Reflecting on the highlights of 2024, we have compiled a list of notable contributions from the past year which showed thought leadership, explored innovative ideas and approaches, offered practical guidance, amplified underrepresented voices and engaged with the most pressing issues for the financial inclusion sector. 

This resource guide is designed to serve as a quick reference for investors, donors, and development partners looking to understand how to integrate a gender lens in their investment processes to support financial service providers (FSPs) serving women-led micro, small, and medium enterprises (WMSMEs).

This guide brings together a selection of the most relevant practical resources, tools and proven solutions to increasing gender diversity in the financial services industry leadership and workforce. These are organized into four main categories; (i) Gender Diverse Leadership, (ii) Institutional Gender Gap Assessment, (iii) Workforce Development, and (iv) Training Resources.

This guide shares resources from an in-depth literature review focused on women-owned nano and micro-enterprises in three countries: India, Kenya, and Uganda.

This guide brings together a wide selection of resources that address gender-intelligent design: research, case studies, toolkits, and best practice guidelines. It provides a starting point for understanding (i) why designing for women is critical; (ii) how to use segmentation approaches and user research when designing financial services, (iii) design principles and methodologies for adopting a gender-intelligent approach to design, and (iv) available training resources.

This guide provides a starting point for understanding (i) what gender data is available at global, regional, national and organizational levels, and the common terms and concepts used to define the women’s market; (ii) the tools for using data and analysis to deconstruct the women’s market; (iii) gender analysis guidance for research, monitoring, and evaluation, and; (iv) trainings on how to collect and sex-disaggregate data.

To mark International Women's Day 2024, this guide shares the latest blogs and publications on financial services that work for women.

This guide points readers to relevant resources that shed light on rural women’s exposure to climate change and emerging solutions that help them adapt and build their resilience.

In 2023, more than 50 community members contributed to the FinDev Blog to share their ideas and lessons learned on topics ranging from women agents' livelihoods to financial inclusion for refugees to digital finance consumer protection. Which blog posts were your favorites?