Assessing the Future of Microfinance as a Development Tool: Continuing the Conversation
In this faiVLive, leaders from all parts of the microfinance sector continued exploring the present and future of microfinance in development policy and practice. Co-hosted by the Financial Access Initiative at NYU and FinDev Gateway.
Reassessing Microfinance as a Development Tool
Is it time to rethink our approach to microfinance? In this webinar, our panelists explored this critical question and discussed what needs to change for microfinance to be effectively leveraged as a development tool.
Paths (and Potholes) Ahead
This webinar presented findings and themes in the e-MFP Financial Inclusion Compass 2024, which features new questions on fraud, biodiversity, reputation, missed opportunities and even what "financial inclusion" actually means: is it, beyond re-branding, meaningfully different from "microfinance"?
Hope and Big Dreams: Meet the Authors of Two Books on Bangladesh Microfinance Pioneers
In this webinar, we heard from the authors of two books who took us through the journey of microfinance and the story of BRAC and Grameen Bank, two innovative institutions that contributed to Bangladesh’s development and the spread of microfinance globally.
Tools Workshop: Gender-Intelligent Design
In this workshop, FinEquity, FAW, and RISE explored how gender-intelligent design can play a meaningful role in advancing women’s financial inclusion.
Tools Clinic: Using Financial Diaries to Develop Products for Women
This clinic examined how financial service providers (FSPs) can use financial diaries research to design and improve product offerings for women.
Design in Action - What Does Gender-Intelligent Consumer Protection Look Like?
The third workshop of the ‘Design in Action’ series explored the importance of consumer protection that is designed to meet women’s financial needs.
Tools Workshop: How to Advance Gender Diversity and Leadership in Financial Services
This workshop featured one of the key tools from FinEquity's resource guide on gender diversity and leadership.
Design in Action – How Do You Design a Heuristic-Based Financial Training to Improve Women’s Entrepreneurship?
This second webinar in the ‘Design in Action’ series focused on the work done by the World Bank's Africa Gender Innovation Lab and ideas42 to design financial heuristics for rural women in Ethiopia and to pilot mobile-phone based financial training for women.
How to Measure Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) in Financial Inclusion
This webinar discussed the development of a core set of indicators to measure Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) within financial inclusion (FI) programs and initiatives to help stakeholders better understand the outcomes of FI on women.