Gender equality

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Generation Equality Accountability Report 2023

The report shows that the Generation Equality initiative has mobilized new funding, partnerships, policies, programs, and advocacy initiatives to accelerate change and deliver results for women and girls.
© © UN Women 2023
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How to prioritize women for financial equality and inclusive economies

This brief offers actionable recommendations for the key steps that policymakers and other stakeholders can take to prioritize women in their efforts toward digital financial inclusion.
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Guide to Data Sources For Financial Inclusion Research

This report introduces five global databases covering account ownership, payments, digital adoption, trust, and the digital gender gap. It suggests data gaps and indicators helpful in fostering evidence-based policymaking.
© Copyright © 2023 by the Tech for Good Institute. All rights reserved.
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Placing Gender Equality at the Center of Climate Action

This policy note investigates how gender equality and climate change intersect and offers recommendations for development practitioners, policymakers, and businesses.
© © WorldBank | worldbank.org
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Financial Products And Services For Women's Financial Inclusion: A Policy And Regulation Design Toolkit

A toolkit for policymakers and regulators to formulate, design, and implement gender-transformative policies for financial products and services.
© Cover image - Jonathan Erasmus/iStock
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Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022

Progress on the Sustainable Development Goals: The gender snapshot 2022” presents the latest evidence on gender equality across all 17 Goals.

© ©The gender snapshot 2022 | unwomen.org
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Inclusive distribution: advancing gender equality in the fast-moving consumer goods sector

This IFC and We-Fi learning brief introduces how gender equality can be advanced within the distribution activities of the FMCG sector.

© ©Inclusive Distribution report | ifc.org
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Gender-responsive social protection post–COVID-19

Socialprotection.org research finds investment in gender-responsive social protection systems, and research, is key to a more equitable future post-COVID-19.
© ©Socialprotection.org
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UNCDF: Inclusive Digital Economies and Gender Equality Playbook

A practical guide to leveraging a market system development approach to decrease the digital and financial gender divide.
© ©UNCDF
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GSMA: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021

The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2021 highlights how the mobile gender gap continues to improve in South Asia, but less so in other regions.
© ©GSMA
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USAID: The Gender Digital Divide Working toward a global digital ecosystem for all

Analyzing the Gender Digital Divide with country examples/data from India, Senegal & Indonesia
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Closing gender gap through fintech

This ADBI brief discusses policy interventions that can help governments in the Asia Pacific region leverage fintech to close the gender gap in financial inclusion. It calls for ensuring tailored services that promote ease of use, flexible regulation to promote access and active coordination among relevant government ministries to enhance financial education. 
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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The mobile gender gap: Asia

The top barriers to mobile ownership in Asia are literacy and skills and affordability, with family disapproval also featuring as a major barrier in parts of South Asia.

© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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How greater financial control impacts gender norms

New NBER paper finds that transferring money directly into women’s accounts and providing them financial training led to their increased participation in the labor force.

© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Designing "smart" to overcome gender bias 

Women face additional constraints because of their gender that affect their economic performance. New Oxford University Press paper suggests that specific design features - repeated micro-lending, variation in loan terms, private savings accounts, etc - in financial services can yield more positive economic outcomes for women. 
© ©Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation/Frederic Courbet
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Integrating Gender and Women's Financial Inclusion into the Central Bank of Egypt's (CBE) Framework

Central Bank of Egypt is promoting women’s financial inclusion through a set of different measures such as enabling the legal and regulatory framework conditions, modernizing the financial i…
© © AFI
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Mexico Proves Bill & Melinda Right on Gender Data

Over 7.3 million women gained access to financial products from 2012 to 2018 due to policies informed by sex-disaggregated data. Read the CG Dev blog on why robust gender data is crucial for…
© © MIDIS
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GSMA: The Mobile Gender Gap Report 2019

This report reveals how the mobile gender gap is changing in low- and middle-income countries, as well as ranking the factors preventing equal mobile ownership and mobile internet use for me…
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Gender differences in the antecedents of trust in mobile social networking services

Building upon social role theory (SRT), this study explores the driving forces of trust in mobile social networking services (mobile SNS) for different genders.

© © Better Than Cash Alliance
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Gender and digital financial inclusion: What do we know and what do we need to know

This report undertakes a systematic review of key literature and identifies areas for further research and opportunities in the field of gender and financial inclusion, particularly digital financial inclusion.