Gender

Pay-as-you-go (PAYGo) solar financing has electrified the homes of more than 100 million people and transformed many households that aren’t connected to the electrical grid. CGAP’s theory of change suggests that PAYGo solar can be an inclusive business model which improves access to energy and finance in ways that can likely benefit women. However, a […]

Wednesday, March 3, from 14:00 to 15:00 CET (8:00-9:00 EST / 13:00-14:00 GMT). Following on from our first webinar on January 27, 2021, which focused on the women’s insurance market opportunity and business case, we are delighted to invite you to a second webinar, looking at why a gender-sensitive response is critical as the industry responds to […]

The current COVID-19 crisis is bringing into sharp relief the vulnerability of agri-food systems and creating new challenges whose repercussions may be felt in the sector for a long time. Among other things, it is showing the limits of our capacity to anticipate shocks and is testing the risk management capacity of all actors active […]

1.7 billion adults in the world are unbanked. Among them, more than half are women.  The rise of digital financial services is expected to advance women’s financial inclusion. Yet, there is a persistent gender gap in account ownership. In Bangladesh, the gap is 29 percentage points, the highest in the world. How can we find simple solutions to […]

3:00pm Rome | 8:00pm Bangkok| 4:00pm Nairobi | 9:00am Washington  Based on an upcoming publication, the webinar will present a series of diverse case studies and examples of agricultural value chain finance (AVCF) in sub-Sahara Africa. Agricultural value chains and AVCF have become commonly used terms but often without really understanding the fundamentals and applications. […]

During this one-day event, more than 125 leaders from the financial services, consumer products, and technology industries, investors, philanthropists and government will examine key issues in financial inclusion and advance innovations for low-income women through a variety of panel discussions and workshops. Discussion Topics:  Priorities for women’s financial inclusion. Investing with a gender lens. Financing women in the […]

Women’s World Banking will host biennial Making Finance Work For Women Summit in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on October 24th and 25th, 2017. The Summit will convene 300 participants in a variety of innovative sessions addressing the most important issues in women’s financial inclusion. Attendees and participants will include leaders from the financial services, consumer […]

The SEEP Network, in collaboration with Forum Partners, is hosting an international convening on women’s economic empowerment, focusing on bringing down the systemic barriers standing in the way of scalable and sustainable change. The Forum will bring together leading stakeholders in the field of women’s economic empowerment to facilitate dialogue, build global learning connections, and promote […]

Please join the Financial Inclusion Program at Innovation for Poverty Action to review existing evidence and remaining knowledge gaps in the role financial inclusion can play in achieving women’s economic empowerment. This webinar will be held on March 23rd from 3:00pm to 4:00 pm CET. To register, click on the link below.

Women’s World Banking at the Making Finance Work for Women Summit will take place November 11-12, 2015 at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) in Berlin, Germany. The Summit will focus on giving women access to financial services and how it relates not only to women’s economic opportunity but also macroeconomic growth. The Summit will […]

Given the growing importance of inclusive market systems development and questions about how it can promote gender equality and women’s economic empowerment, the SEEP Network and UN Women have teamed up to bring you a learning series entitled “From Theory to Practice: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Inclusive Market Systems Development.” The learning series will take […]