This blog by Women's World Banking, 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.

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?

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.

FinEquity member and Women's Finance Exchange's Lead Gender Finance Expert, Joanna Romero, sat down with us to tell us about her work and how her organization has been helping to promote alternative data to assess creditworthiness for female entrepreneurs.

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.

In October 2023, World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI) became a proud signatory of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code (WE Finance Code), committing to an annual collection of gender-disaggregated financing indicators from its 100+ member financial institutions. In this blog, WSBI's Senior Program Manager, Céline Stevens shares challenges, innovative solutions, and lessons learned in implementing the WE Finance Code.

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

We caught up with FinEquity member and Head of the Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) initiative, Marina Finken, to learn more about her work in advancing financial sector development on the African continent.

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts.