Women’s economic empowerment and Financial Inclusion (WEE-FI)proach
- We strengthen gender-inclusive entrepreneurship ecosystems by addressing systemic barriers and expanding women’s access to finance, markets, networks, and institutional support.
- We promote inclusive financial solutions by working with financial service providers, FinTechs, and agent networks to design and scale affordable, gender-intentional products tailored to women’s needs.
- We generate evidence to drive action through rigorous research on women’s access to credit, enterprise growth, digital risks, and financial behavior to inform data-backed policies and program design.
- We support policy and ecosystem transformation. We pilot innovations, institutionalize proven models, and enable cross-sector partnerships that create scalable impact for women’s economic empowerment.
Disability inclusion
- We apply an intersectional GEDSI lens to understand how gender, disability, and other identities shape access, agency, and economic opportunity.
- We promote disability-inclusive financial systems by supporting financial service providers to embed universal design and inclusive practices across products, service delivery, and operations.
- We leverage data to inform inclusive design by generating insights on the experiences and needs of persons with disabilities and apply these to drive equitable, evidence-based solutions and inclusive designs.
Gender responsive agriculture and food systems
- We empower women in agriculture and aquaculture by strengthening their economic participation, enhancing their decision-making power, and improving access to productive resources.
- We facilitate women farmers’ access to inclusive financial mechanisms, climate-adaptive technologies, and sustainable agricultural markets.
- We promote gender-equitable food systems by integrating women’s priorities and contributions in climate adaptation strategies, agri-value chain development, and food security programs.
Care economy
- We strengthen the care economy by identifying critical gaps in care infrastructure, financing, and workforce conditions to inform targeted, evidence-based interventions.
- We collaborate with ecosystem actors to promote investment in care infrastructure, services, and entrepreneurship models that create dignified work for women and others.
- We work toward long-term systemic change by supporting policy, ecosystem, and institutional solutions that recognize and value care work, especially by women.
Women in the digital economy
- We help women participate in the digital economy. We improve their access to and user experience of digital financial services and platforms through inclusive design and behavioral interventions.
- We support inclusive digital public infrastructure development and services that address barriers faced by women, especially in rural and low-income settings.
- We build the digital capabilities of women entrepreneurs and workers through tailored skilling, mentorship, and market linkage interventions.
Gender lens investing
- We support investors and ecosystem enablers to apply a gender lens across investment processes, from pipeline development to impact measurement.
- We generate evidence on the business case and social returns of investing in women-led businesses and gender-inclusive enterprises.
Prevention of Gender-based Violence (GBV)
- We address gender-based violence as a barrier to economic empowerment by recognizing its impact on women’s mobility, agency, and participation in livelihoods and public life.
- We strengthen systems of prevention and response by supporting frontline institutions—such as police, social protection, and health services—to adopt survivor-centered, gender-responsive approaches.
- We enable community-level norm change through social and behavior change communication (SBCC), engaging men, boys, and gatekeepers to shift attitudes that normalize or justify violence.
- We generate evidence to inform policy and practice by researching the linkages between GBV, economic insecurity, and structural inequality, and using insights to shape integrated, cross-sector solutions.
Gender and climate change
- We strengthen women’s leadership in climate-resilient food systems by enabling access to climate-smart technologies, finance, and inputs for women farmers and producers.
- We co-create inclusive climate solutions by designing advisories and digital tools that reflect women’s needs, roles, and decision-making contexts in adaptation and resilience-building.
- We support women-led climate enterprises by facilitating access to finance, mentorship, and markets—amplifying their role in driving inclusive, locally rooted climate innovation.
Intersectional areas (Gender responsive infrastructure, transportation, gender, and technology)
- We work at the intersection of gender and systems, such as infrastructure, transportation, and technology, to identify barriers and co-create inclusive, gender-responsive solutions.
