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
In the third installment in our Leadership Insights series, Mary Ellen Iskenderian discusses the data we have about women's financial inclusion – and why it's not yet being used to tap into this underserved and promising market.
Consumer protection presents a significant challenge for financial inclusion. This blog explores how we can improve women's trust in the financial system and ensure that digital financial services are inclusive, safe, and sustainable for them to use.
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.
In this workshop, FinEquity, FAW, and RISE explored how gender-intelligent design can play a meaningful role in advancing women’s financial inclusion.
This clinic examined how financial service providers (FSPs) can use financial diaries research to design and improve product offerings for women.
This workshop featured one of the key tools from FinEquity's resource guide on gender diversity and leadership.
Latest Publications
This publication provides FSPs the knowledge to use women-centered design for developing financial products and services that work for women.
This brief outlines why financial service providers should advance gender equality in financial inclusion and how they can approach this process.
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