Advancing Gender Insights Through Sex-Disaggregated Data
This course provides an in-depth guide to understanding, gathering, and effectively using sex-disaggregated data to promote gender equality and improve women's financial inclusion.
Transforming Financial Inclusion Through Gender Inclusive Policy Innovation
Learn how policymakers can design and implement gender-transformative financial policies to promote women's financial inclusion and empowerment.
From Informal to Investable
Banks and MFIs have long bypassed women nano-entrepreneurs as too expensive to serve profitably. But by meeting these women inside their trusted savings groups with digital tools, financial institutions are unlocking viable models to reach segments that traditional lending has missed.
Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Implications for Program Design and Evaluation
This policy brief shares practical lessons from customer research on women’s saving behavior in Uganda, examining how different empowerment indicators perform in capturing women’s financial behaviors, decision‑making, and outcomes.
AFI and Partners Explore How to Advance Women’s Leadership and Gender-Inclusive Finance at Luxembourg Event
On 24 November, policy makers, private sector and development partners from around the world committed to work together to expand women’s access to finance and economic participation, and to support women leaders at a high-level event in Luxembourg.
Euroclear Facilitates First Gender Bond to to Finance Women-Owned SMEs in Türkiye
The proceeds of the $100 million issuance will be used to finance women-owned SMEs, as well as mortgage loans for women in Türkiye.
British Business Bank Agrees to Commit GBP30 M to Invest in Women Taskforce ‘Women Backing Women’ Fund Led by Bootstrap4F
These investments will expand access to funding for female investors and entrepreneurs, with a focus on the eight growth-driving sectors of the Government’s Industrial Strategy – from life sciences to digital & technology – that underpin UK growth.
Freshfields and A&O Shearman Leaders Join Group to Boost UK’s Finance Sector
Non-profit Women in Banking & Finance has set up a new council to support growth and innovation.
Women’s World Banking Unlocks Growth for 117 Million Women and 76 Million Men
Over a span of eight years, 117 million women across 22 countries who were previously excluded from the formal financial system now have access to financial solutions like savings, loans, insurance and credit, enabling greater economic potential.
Access Bank Kenya and National Bank of Kenya Launch A Product to Support Women in Business
Backed by Access Bank’s Africa-wide footprint, the W Initiative is aimed to unlock opportunities, deepen financial inclusion, and accelerate the success of women entrepreneurs across Kenya.