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South Asia

Where We Work South Asia Learn how our efforts have benefitted women and banking institutions in this region. Primary Problem We’ve Set Out to Address Usage and Engagement for Underbanked In 2018, we saw that India had opened millions of Pradhan Mantri Jan Dhan Yojana (PMJDY) accounts, but the majority

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Southeast Asia

Where We Work Southeast Asia Learn how our efforts have benefitted women and banking institutions in this region. Primary Problem We’ve Set Out to Address Usage and Engagement for Underbanked In 2017, we saw that 120MM women were either unbanked or had an account that they did not use in

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Women’s World Banking and the Australian Government’s Renewed Partnership for 2020-2024: Advancing Women’s Economic Empowerment in Southeast Asia

By Julie-Ann Guivarra, Ambassador for Gender Equality, DFAT and Mary Ellen Iskenderian, CEO & President, Women’s World Banking In 2016, Women’s World Banking and the Australian Government, through the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), teamed up to build a more secure and prosperous future for low-income women in

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Women’s World Banking announces renewed funding from Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for Southeast Asia Partnership from 2020-2024

This renewed, four-year partnership will enable Women’s World Banking to accelerate its support for low-income women throughout Southeast Asia, with a focus on COVID-19 recovery and resilience New York, October 22, 2020 – Women’s World Banking announces that Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has renewed its support

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Report: Unlocking Credit For Women-Owned Enterprises in Southeast Asia through Value Chain Digitization

This report summarizes efforts by Women’s World Banking to answer three key questions: Which value chains in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam represent priority opportunities to develop increased credit offerings for women-owned MSMEs (micro-, small- & medium-sized enterprises) through value chain digitization? What forms of value chain digitization would

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