Two Steps Behind: Social Inequality Poses a Challenge for Women’s Financial Inclusion in DR Congo
A recent FINCA survey of clients in DR Congo shows that women entrepreneurs are confined to the smallest, least profitable businesses. Getting a realistic picture of the obstacles women face helps prepare us for the task ahead of shifting the ground in women’s favor.
Who Sends Money to Whom? Gendered Flows of Mobile Money in Kenya
An anthropological approach to digital finance using social network analysis
How to Bring More Women into Mobile Money
To improve the user experience of mobile money smartphone apps and help overcome barriers for women, GRID Impact uses human-centered design - creating solutions with women, not just for women.
Making the Gender Gap Visible
Parsing through mountains of financial inclusion data to find meaningful patterns to advance women’s financial inclusion is overwhelming. CGAP’s Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice guides you through the data.
Women’s Empowerment Indicators
Unlike other data sources, FII data has a dedicated gender module measuring women’s economic empowerment, which aims to assess whether women's access to finance results in empowerment.
The Story of Her: Gender Insights from FinScope
FinScope’s layered approach to data collection and analysis allows us to explore women’s empowerment at the individual, household, and community levels.
Why Do Practitioners Value FinEquity?
In honor of International Women’s Day, FinDev Gateway features FinEquity (formerly known as the Women’s Financial Inclusion Community of Practice), a special corner of FinDev where practitioners working to increase women’s financial inclusion can share ideas, resources and lessons learned. Uloma Ogba of UNCDF tells us what she values about this community of practice.
How To Transform Gendered Norms
We can’t achieve women’s financial inclusion without considering harmful social norms and trying to change them.
Social Norms Are Difficult To Change, Can Entertainment Help?
Zari is a six-year-old girl who goes to school, skateboards and learns about making healthy choices – and is the most recognized children’s television character in Afghanistan. She is featured on Sesame Garden, the nation’s version of Sesame Street. She is also changing minds around the acceptability of girls’ education in a country with some of the lowest rates of girls’ primary school attendance in the world.
Untapped Potential: Behavior Change Approaches To Address Gender Norms
Integrating social and behavior change communication in women’s economic empowerment programming to address social gender norms that affect financial inclusion.