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gender and rural microfinance: reaching and empowering women - English género y microfinanciación rural: cobertura y empoderamiento para las mujeres - Spanish l'égalité des sexes et la microfinance rurale: atteindre et autonomiser les femmes - French

Gender and rural microfinance: Reaching and empowering women

Topic : Gender, Microfinance

This guide is intended as an overview of gender issues for rural finance practitioners. It highlights the questions that need to be asked and addressed in gender mainstreaming. It will also be useful to gender experts wishing to increase their understanding of specific gender issues in rural finance.

The guide’s intended users include IFAD’s country programme managers and staff, technical partners and microfinance institutions, gender practitioners working in rural microfinance, and academic researchers in the fields of gender and microfinance.