Tag: Gender Centrality

This is the third blog under the Women Digital Ambassador (WDA) project. It focuses on the digital transformation of women’s cooperative agents in Indonesia. It delves into the challenges female agents face, such as capital shortage and liquidity management, and uses a gender-focused approach to suggest strategies for female agents to overcome these challenges. It highlights the importance of convenience for both customers and agents and emphasizes the influential role of community networks to promote digital financial services. The conclusion stresses the need for a gender-intentional financial ecosystem to ensure equitable empowerment in financial inclusion.

Reports suggest that two out of three women in PNG face domestic abuse. Due to a lack of formal saving facilities for them, women’s hard-earned money often ends up with their husbands, who usually waste it on gambling or drinking. This blog highlights MiBank’s efforts to bridge the gender gap by introducing gender-centric products.

Highlights from MSC workshop in Delhi on 4th March, 2020 in collaboration with NITI Aayog and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Financial inclusion sector’s combined efforts have not succeeded in making an impact on women. Mainly for reasons – significant variations in their behaviour and ecosystem players generally overlooking gender centrality in the design of financial products and services

This consumer behavior research aims to investigate why this is so, examining the gender centrality in digital financial services (DFS) in Bangladesh. The study focused only on mobile financial services as the most prevalent form of DFS in Bangladesh.

This briefing note introduces MSC’s gender centrality framework and explains how financial service providers and policymakers can help to promote the gender equality.