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WOCCU’S GIFT Framework Helps Women Entrepreneurs in Senegal Secure More Loans with Improved Terms
Four credit unions that piloted World Council of Credit Unions’ (WOCCU) Gender Investing Framework Toolkit (GIFT) in Senegal saw evidence of better performance in loans to female entrepreneurs.
Giving phones to women is a smart move!
KEIPhone is a social enterprise that gives women in emerging economies what they need to thrive: a phone.
USAID Webinar Series: Promoting Gender Equity through Finance
This webinar is part of the Mobilizing Finance for Development (MF4D) webinar series, an ongoing series that explores how innovative financing solutions can be used to address development challenges.
What Does it Take to Become a Gender-Inclusive Organization?
Key strategies and lessons learned from FinEquity members in their efforts to develop gender-inclusive workplaces.
Credit Unions are uniquely positioned to lead Gender Lens Investing
The membership structure, non-profit mission, and excellence at educating their members make Credit Unions ideal to lead the wave of gender investments that can change the fate of women entrepreneurs. Gender Lens Investing (GLI) is quite popular with investors who intend to do well be doing good. But what exactly is Gender Lens Investing and why are Credit Unions such great gender vehicles? What can we learn from a pilot project in Senegal?
Does digital financial literacy boost women’s savings habits?
In sub-Saharan Africa, savings groups have been the steppingstone for women’s financial inclusion since the early 1980s. They are now going through their own digital transformation, more and more frequently using apps to record transactions and training their members to use mobile money.
Protecting Women using DFS during the pandemic
The global COVID-19 pandemic is bringing about social changes that will have lasting effects on how we work, socialize, and consume. One of them is the increased usage of mobile money and digital financial services.
Empowering women with Digital Financial Services
Women’s empowerment is often measured by their access to resources and ability to make decisions over how they are used. Recent evidence shows that DFS delivered through mobile phones deserves solid A's against each metric. This is not just hopeful musing by us as two empowered women with banking apps on our mobile phones.