This reading deck focuses on the financial lives of young women aged 15-24 in Ghana, who make up about 10% of Ghana’s population. It highlights findings from segmentation analysis and qualitative research undertaken in 2024.

This reading deck focuses on the financial lives of young women aged 15-24 in Tanzania, who make up almost 10% of the country’s population. It highlights findings from segmentation analysis and qualitative research undertaken in 2024.

This document was developed as a companion to a workshop held in Morocco within the framework of the National Financial Inclusion Strategy examining concrete courses of action that FSPs worldwide have implemented to strengthen their service range and unlock low-income women’s demand for financial services.

This Diagnostic Guide helps development actors move beyond symptoms to address the root causes of women’s financial exclusion.

This report analyzes the barriers women entrepreneurs face in Pacific island countries and shows how weaving gender-sensitivity into tax design and providing tailored support can boost formalization and underpin sustainable economic growth.

This Guide introduces a structured, field-tested approach to uncover how gender norms shape market actor behavior, to help development actors move beyond symptoms to address the root causes of women’s financial exclusion.

This Focus Note presents a practical framework, based on diagnostics in Rwanda, Tanzania, and Uganda, that classifies gender norms by their strength and prevalence and proposes tailored strategies for addressing them.

This report proposes a segmentation lens, one that recognizes the diversity within WNMEs. It identifies eight critical factors, from mindset and digital readiness to business maturity and location, that shape how women engage with entrepreneurship.

This study examines young women’s contribution to Africa’s GDP, identifies promising sectors for their employment and entrepreneurship, and outlines key barriers to boosting their productivity by 2030.

This publication examines women’s access to insurance in Pacific island countries, exploring how insurance can support women’s entrepreneurship and resilience and foster inclusive economic growth.