Powering Economies by Investing in Women
Women’s World Banking designs and invests in the market-driven financial solutions, institutions, and policy environments in emerging markets to create greater economic stability and prosperity for women, their families and their communities.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: JUNE 15TH
FinTech Innovation Challenge
Women’s World Banking wants to identify FinTech innovations providing unbanked and underserved women with access financial services in order to build their security and prosperity in the face of these global economic uncertainties. These FinTechs will present their solutions during Making Finance Work for Women 2020.
COVID-19’s Impact on Underserved Women
Low-income women are disproportionately impacted by economic shocks, and Women’s World Banking will continue to do research and work with financial service providers in response. View our research, insights and articles on how gender inequality influences the economic effects of Covid-19.
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
Making Finance Work for Women Virtual Summit
October 20th & 21st, 2020
Join our virtual summit with over 300 leaders from financial service providers, FinTechs, donors, investors, research firms, and more as we examine issues in financial inclusion and women’s resilience in response to global economic shocks.
Deconstructing Findex
Insights Into Our Priority Markets
Women’s World Banking conducted first-of-its-kind analysis of the World Bank Global Findex survey data in order to highlight the extent of the gender disparity in financial inclusion. This visual analysis looks closely at gender-disaggregated trends in our priority markets, and highlights opportunities for each market.
Now Accepting Applications
Leadership And Diversity for Innovation Program
Build executive leadership capabilities to close the gender gap in financial inclusion.
Publication
Unlocking Credit For Women-Owned Enterprises in Southeast Asia through Value Chain Digitization
In Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, & Vietnam, most women owned-enterprises are unable to access formal credit, and value chain digitization represents a key opportunity for financial institutions & digital payment platforms in this market.
COUNTRY SNAPSHOTS
Women’s Financial
Inclusion
We are working to reach unbanked and underserved women in our priority markets: India, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Egypt, Mexico, and Nigeria. Each market requires a tailored strategy, but common barriers to women’s financial inclusion exist across the board. Here, we’ve compiled snapshots of those barriers and how we plan to tackle them.
2019 REPORT
Social Commerce Entrepreneurship and New Opportunities for Women’s Financial Inclusion in India and Indonesia
The potential of social commerce to advance women entrepreneurs’ growth and financial inclusion cannot be realized without a deeper understanding of what drives women’s adoption of digital platforms, how women use and perceive them, and how their businesses are changing as a result.
CASE STUDY
Removing Barriers to Digital Financial Services for Women in Nigeria & Pakistan
We worked together with partners in Nigeria and Pakistan to identify opportunities and barriers to digital financial service for women. Find out how this research drove strategic recommendations and the new lessons we all learned along the way.
CASE STUDY
Designing Products and Developing Institutions to Serve Low-income Women
In order to better serve low-income women in Sub-Saharan Africa with financial products, Women’s World Banking and Financial Sector Deepening Africa (FSDA) partnered together to increase the capacity of leading financial institutions in Nigeria, Tanzania and Malawi.
OUR ORGANIZATION BY THE NUMBERS
Today our work is more important
and impactful than ever
53 Financial Institutions in 32 Countries use our market insight, product design expertise and leadership training
1000+ Executives from 74 Countries form the next generation of leaders to serve the women's market
30 Million Low-Income Women reached as part of the largest emerging market there is
