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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FinEquity
FinDev Blog
Blog

Reflecting on a Member-led Session at the #FinEquity2023 Annual Meeting, we dive into how PULA, Opportunity International, and Fundación WWB Colombia are working to understand women's climate realities and financial needs.

FinEquity
FinDev Blog
Blog

As part of the #FinEquity2023 Annual Meeting blog series, we reflect on key takeaways from the two-day event which explored how financial inclusion can be a tool for women’s economic empowerment and a just climate transition. 

FinEquity
FinDev Blog
Blog

Hear from Carolina Trivelli on the launch of FinEquity's global consultation at the #FinEquity2023 Annual Meeting and how you can have a say in determining the collective future direction and priorities of our work to empower women through financial inclusion.

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FinEquity
Webinar

Classroom-based financial literacy initiatives often face challenges and can have limited impact. 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. 

FinEquity
Webinar

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. 

FinEquity
Webinar

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.   

Latest Publications

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The Center for Global Development, Data2X, and FinEquity offer a set of indicators to promote a simplified and harmonized approach to measure WEE in the context of financial inclusion programs and initiatives

Slide Deck

These documents synthesize research and insights to date regarding women in rural and agricultural livelihoods, financial and non-financial services, and climate change.

Paper

This landscape report sheds light on how women micro-entrepreneurs use mobile for business in low- and middle-income countries.