Measuring Women's Economic Empowerment in Financial Inclusion
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FinEquity and MEDA co-host this webinar, a parallel event which is part of the NGO UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)69/ Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action (Beijing+30) Forum.
Evidence suggests that when women use financial services, they have increased opportunities to earn income and exercise agency by accessing jobs, starting businesses, and gaining intra-household bargaining power. While researchers, financial service providers, market facilitators, and funders have begun to apply women’s economic empowerment (WEE) measures to understand the wider impact of greater financial inclusion for women, common indicators and guidance do not yet exist. To help address this gap, a core group of WEE experts, together with the FinEquity community, came together to identify and test a proposed menu of indicators for measuring WEE within financial inclusion interventions.
In this session co-hosted by FinEquity and MEDA, you will hear about the collaborative learning process used to test and refine the indicators as well as the guidance available for adopting these indicators. Partners who took part in the collaborative process, MEDA, an international economic development organization, BancoSol, the first commercial microfinance bank in the world based in Bolivia, and Women’s World Banking, a global network of financial services providers championing women’s financial inclusion, will share practical insights and discuss how they plan to integrate this into their monitoring tools and processes to measure changes in WEE over time.
Date and time:
Tuesday March 11th, 2025
8:30AM - 10:00AM EDT
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Denisse Chantal Macias Kovacev
Denisse has a Degree in Economics with a Master's Degree in Project Preparation, Social Evaluation and Management, and Diplomas in Sustainable Finance, Sustainability Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility and Advanced Marketing and Sales Management. She has experience in project planning and management, as well as sustainable finance and sustainability reporting. She currently serves as National Deputy Manager of Sustainability and CSR at BancoSol, Bolivia.
Justin Archer
As the Lead for Global Outcomes Research, Justin rigorously evaluates the impacts of Women’s World Banking’s solutions on financial inclusion and women’s economic empowerment through experimental and quasi-experimental methods. He has carried out similar research for the World Bank, Population Services International, Marie Stopes International, and Innovations for Poverty Action.
Jenny Morgan
As the Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) Lead for FinEquity, Jenny led the learning initiative to develop, test, and refine a theory of change and indicators to measure WEE through increased financial inclusion. Jenny has 20 years of experience facilitating learning and carrying-out evidence-based research on inclusive financial growth, WEE, entrepreneurship, market systems development, resilience, and food security.
AJ Nafziger
AJ Nafziger is a Sustainability and Inclusion Lead at Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), based in Lancaster, PA. Their work focuses on contributing to MEDA’s thought leadership and implementation of gender and environment mainstreaming strategies across international programs. AJ is a passionate advocate for human rights and climate justice working at the intersection of gender equality, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability.