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.
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.
Women’s World Banking announces renewed funding from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
As the world reels from the Covid-19 pandemic and its subsequent economic fallout, the International Monetary Fund’s data show the economies in Asia and the Pacific shrinking by 2.3% in 2020. While the number of people living in poverty in developing Asia would have declined to 114 million by the end of 2020, Covid-19 reversed this trend. Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has renewed its support of the organization’s longstanding efforts in financial inclusion and economic empowerment of low-income women in Southeast Asia to further our work in Indonesia, Cambodia, and Vietnam over a four-year period.
REPORT
Delivering on the potential of digitized G2P: Driving women’s financial inclusion and empowerment through Indonesia’s Program Keluarga Harapan
Especially during COVID-19, digital payment systems are an important source of financial resilience & relief. Program Keluarga Harapan (PKH) is a digitized G2P program that is uniquely positioned to drive women’s financial inclusion & empowerment in Indonesia. In our latest report, we explore what keeps beneficiaries from fully using their PKH accounts.
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
