Research & Perspectives

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

Unlocking Credit for Women Owned Businesses This report summarizes efforts by Women’s World Banking to answer three key questions about unlocking credit for women owned businesses and for women entrepreneurs around the globe: Which value chains in Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Vietnam represent priority opportunities to develop increased credit

January 31, 2020

Products & Solutions

The Power of Partnership: A Corporate Collaboration to Advance Women’s Financial Inclusion in Pakistan

Women’s World Banking worked with Jazz to partner with Unilever’s women entrepreneur training program to leverage each companies core competencies to increase value for their products and drive financial inclusion for low-income women in Pakistan.

October 1, 2018

Products & Solutions

Custom Product Bundles Can Deepen Financial Inclusion for Vietnam’s Economically Active Women

Vietnam has millions of economically active women who interact with the formal financial sector at a superficial level. Women’s World Banking worked with Maritime Bank to develop a strategy to deepen its outreach the women’s market.

August 20, 2018

Products & Solutions

Digitizing for an Inclusive Value Chain

Four lessons on building inclusive value chains for the fast-moving consumer goods industry.

April 16, 2018

Products & Solutions

How to bring more women into the global supply chain

Perspectives from Unilever, the World Cocoa Foundation and Mastercard on ways to create a global supply chain that includes women.

April 2, 2018

Products & Solutions

3 Strategic Ways to Partner with Factories to Reach Millions of Underbanked Workers in India

Part two of a series on the opportunity for factories to offer financial and non-financial services to drive deeper financial inclusion.

October 9, 2017

Products & Solutions

How Factories Can Play a Pivotal Role in Expanding Financial Inclusion in India

80% of India’s 6 million garment employees are women. Many are not formally banked. These factories can be these women’s gateway to financial inclusion.

October 1, 2017

Products & Solutions

Video: Women in Supply Chains

Our President and CEO Mary Ellen Iskenderian highlights the importance of ensuring gender equality across the corporate sourcing networks.

May 25, 2017

Research & Perspectives

Unlocking Women’s Value in the Corporate Value Chain

Experts on the value proposition for multinational companies investing in women in the global supply chain and share examples of successful initiatives.

February 1, 2016

Research & Perspectives

The factory floor as classroom: peer-to-peer financial education among India’s garment employees

There are millions of low-income people without access to formal financial services who have the opportunity of doing so through their work at factories. How can workplace-based training can accelerate financial inclusion for this population?

June 29, 2015

Products & Solutions

Beyond Microentrepreneurs: Financial Services for Factory Workers

Millions of low-income salaried workers have a gateway to more financial services: direct deposit through their factory job. How do we ensure access leads to usage?

May 25, 2015

Research & Perspectives

Top three lessons in addressing gender disparity in agribusiness

Associate Susan Gao lists the top themes that emerged in a recent conference on empowering women in agribusiness.

December 8, 2014

Research & Perspectives

A growing market for financial inclusion: low-income factory employees

Women’s World Banking financial education lead Cathleen Tobin recaps the low-income salaried employees panel at last November’s “Building Women-Focused Finance” in Amman, Jordan.

January 27, 2014

Research & Perspectives

When can we start? The financial education needs of low-income garment factory employees in India

What are the financial lives of low-income garment employees like? This was one of the questions driving the research Women’s World Banking conducted in India during the early part of 2013.

August 21, 2013

Products & Solutions

HERfinance | Empowering Workers in the Supply Chain Through Financial Inclusion

The HERfinance curriculum—which BSR developed based on globally recognized best practices in financial literacy training—has been reviewed by experts such as Microfinance Opportunities, Better Work, and Women’s World Banking.

July 2, 2013

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

The Power of Partnership: A Corporate Collaboration to Advance Women’s Financial Inclusion in Pakistan

Custom Product Bundles Can Deepen Financial Inclusion for Vietnam’s Economically Active Women

Digitizing for an Inclusive Value Chain

How to bring more women into the global supply chain

3 Strategic Ways to Partner with Factories to Reach Millions of Underbanked Workers in India

How Factories Can Play a Pivotal Role in Expanding Financial Inclusion in India

Video: Women in Supply Chains

Unlocking Women’s Value in the Corporate Value Chain

The factory floor as classroom: peer-to-peer financial education among India’s garment employees

Beyond Microentrepreneurs: Financial Services for Factory Workers

Top three lessons in addressing gender disparity in agribusiness

A growing market for financial inclusion: low-income factory employees

When can we start? The financial education needs of low-income garment factory employees in India

HERfinance | Empowering Workers in the Supply Chain Through Financial Inclusion

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