Gender Lens Investing Landscape: Gaps, Challenges, and Opportunities in Financial Inclusion for Women
This report provides evidence that while microfinance has been a driver of economic opportunities for underserved women globally, a more well-rounded gender lens investing approach is required to generate the level of impact necessary to truly advance financial inclusion for women.
Why a Segmentation Strategy Matters for Serving the Women’s Market
This paper explores the needs and preferences of specific women’s market segments as well as tries to understand how a segmentation strategy can support banks to better serve different women segments.
Business Her Own Way: Creating Livelihoods Through Informal Online Commerce
This Focus Note outlines the characteristics of informal online commerce (IOC), maps the personas of the women who engage in it, and provides guidance to funders looking to support women to generate livelihoods through IOC.
Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit
This toolkit is designed to aid the design and implementation of women's financial inclusion and empowerment programs.
How Regulators Use Sex-Disaggregated Data and Regtech to Enhance Financial Inclusion
This study examines the role that financial services regulators can play in efforts to address financial inclusion of women.
Leadership as a Driver of Innovative Financial Services for Women
The guiding hypothesis of this research is that technical know-how and leadership competencies will enable executives to drive women’s financial inclusion on a greater scale than ever before
Reaching Financial Equality for Women
This 10-point action plan for governments and businesses shares practical steps to help end the continued economic exclusion of women through digital financial inclusion.
Algorithmic Bias, Financial Inclusion, and Gender
A primer on opening up new credit to women in emerging economies
Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment in Financial Inclusion
A Mapping of relevant measurement tools
Gender Data in Financial Inclusion
This FinEquity Brief highlights how, as a component of gender data, sex-disaggregated data can support women's financial inclusion.