Around the world, 1.3 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
The findings in this learning brief draw on the Strive Women Midline Survey, conducted by 60 Decibels, which measured how women micro and small enterprise owners across Pakistan, Vietnam, and Peru experience and respond to digital financial risk and fraud.
The 2026 event brought together financial service providers, policymakers, regulators, funders, and other practitioners from around the world around a shared and urgent question: how do we keep gender on the agenda when funding is tight? You can now watch the full recording.
Changing Financial Institutions for Women Through Collective Action
What does it actually take for financial institutions to serve women better? CGAP's work in Mexico & Morocco shows it takes institution-level change, but collective action across institutions can accelerate it.
Blog by Alice Nègre, Gabriela Zapata Alvarez, Gayatri Murthy, CGAP | Aug 2026
SAVE THE DATE: #FinEquityAfrica2026
Join the FinEquity community on December 9 for Day 3 of the Annual FinEquity Convening. This virtual session will bring together the Africa community to explore barriers to women’s financial inclusion, particularly for young women, and identify opportunities for collective action.
FinEquity Community Newsletter | September 2026
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FinEquity Independent Evaluation Report
We are excited to share the results of FinEquity’s Independent Evaluation! The findings highlight the critical role of FinEquity in keeping gender on the agenda, creating a trusted, inclusive space where diverse stakeholders can connect, learn, and collaborate. Two-thirds of those interviewed and surveyed valued FinEquity for learning and knowledge exchange, while 40% found direct impacts on their work in designing strategies and solutions and identifying partners.
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The focus of this paper is on the important role of wholesale finance in shaping the inclusive finance sector and the contribution of shallow wholesale markets to the high cost of productive microcredit in Africa.
The Global Gender Gap Index continues to offer a consistent measure of the present state of gender parity, as well as the long-term evolution of global efforts to close the gender gap.
This toolkit offers practical guidance and tools for practitioners, funders, and partners working in the financial inclusion space.