An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

An updated take on "What We're Reading".  The FinEquity Africa team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives, and articles to videos and social posts.

An updated take on "What We're Reading". The FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts. 

Amon Ariyo Tusingwire, Country Director for WomenSave Uganda, sat down with us to share his work on inclusive financing in rural areas and lessons learned from providing savings products and services to women in marginalized communities in Uganda.

Women represent nearly half of the global agricultural labor force. And yet, their access to finance and business development opportunities needed to succeed in the sector is far below that of their male counterparts. In this joint blog, MEDA and Root Capital share insights from their work to highlight the business case for investing in women in agriculture.

Development economist and FinEquity member, Tara Bedi, sat down with us to share her motivation in designing large-scale project evaluations for programs that have the potential to significantly transform the lives of poor rural women in Ethiopia, India, Malawi, Mauritania, and Nigeria.

An updated take on "What We're Reading", the FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives, and articles to videos and social posts.

Rathi Mani-Kandt, Director of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Financial Inclusion at CARE USA, shares success stories from their Ignite program and the launch of Strive Women, a new four-year program that will work to strengthen the financial health and resilience of more than 300,000 small businesses in Pakistan, Peru and Vietnam.

Women-led MSMEs play a crucial role in their local economies, driving job creation, innovation, combating climate change, and ensuring food security. Despite this, significant gaps in access to appropriate financial services persists. This blog provides a few practical examples of how gender lens investing can incentivize FSPs to serve women entrepreneurs.

An updated take on "What We're Reading", the FinEquity team brings you a curated list of women's financial inclusion and economic empowerment content we've been consuming recently, from podcasts, new initiatives and articles to videos and social posts.