May 30, 2019 | Sabal Majali, Chloe Gueguen, and Ahmed Tamimi
Jordan has one of the largest financial inclusion gender gaps in the world. Women comprise over 47% of the Jordanian population, yet they remain largely underrepresented in most economic activ…
Apr 16, 2019 | The SEEP Network
The SEEP Women’s Economic Empowerment Working Group hosted a Twitter Chat on March 12, 2019 to celebrate International Women’s Day and explore Technology and Innovation in Women&rs…
Mar 4, 2019 | Nicole Mills, The BOMA Project
Photo: David duChemin © 2019 The BOMA Project Economically empowering women is vital to achieving the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. Globally, women disproportionately suffer the cas…
Mar 1, 2019 | Mark Mutai and Tom Roberts, World Vision Sierra Leone
Hon. Josephine Makieu, elected from the Kenema District, addresses participants at the WELD Learning Forum in January 2019. Photo: Thomashia Junisa “Only 12.7 Percent” Sierra Leone…
Feb 7, 2019 | Carla de Chassy, The SEEP Network
Claudia Canepa, Coordinator of Oxfam’s Knowledge Hub on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE), received SEEP’s Practitioner of the Year Award for her leadership and contribution…
Dec 19, 2018 | Chloe Gueguen, Arab Women’s Enterprise Fund
An Arabic version of this blog is available on FinDev Gateway. Fintech is often talked about as a revolution - but in Egypt it is more of a democratizing force. By making financial services mo…
Dec 7, 2018 | Charlin Caster, Marketlinks
Female workers in Bangladesh rallying at a protest. Photo Credit: Musfiq Tajwar, Solidarity Center. This blog originally appeared on the Marketlinks website. We are pleased to share it here wi…
Sep 28, 2018 | Muhammad Junaid and Frenki Kozeli, Chemonics
The development community has long been in pursuit of partnerships with public and private sector actors to improve market systems. At its best, these partnerships result in more inclusive and…
Aug 15, 2018 | Rosalie Biaba, The Panzi Foundation & Nicole Mills, The BOMA Project
Jane Klonsky © The BOMA Project Innovations in Kenya and the DRC lower barriers to financial inclusion. Women comprise 56% of the 1.7 billion adults globally without access to formal fin…
May 18, 2018 | Emma Fawcett
Mali has one of the highest fertility rates in the world, with an average of more than 6 children per woman. Closely spaced births also contribute to maternal mortality (587 deaths per 100,000…
May 9, 2018 | Abigail Bondzie
Photo Credit: © CARE International Introduction “Mata Masu Dubara” (MMD) translates from Hausa to English as “Women on the Move” (WoM). WoM was birthed in 1991 in…
Apr 9, 2018 | Emily Namey
Long before I was introduced to the world of savings groups, I worked on the socio-behavioral side of HIV prevention research for several years in the early 2000s. During that time, I read hun…
Mar 23, 2018 | CARE
Over the past 34 years, CARE International Rwanda has lifted up women and girls in rural areas, helping them overcome poverty and live dignified lives. CARE focuses on women and girls because…
Mar 5, 2018 | Sabine Garbarino & Alexander Kucharski
On average, 40 percent of women experience physical or sexual violence at the hands of their husbands or partners across Sub-Saharan Africa. Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) not only has a deva…
Nov 25, 2017 | Laura Kim
At the Arab Women's Enterprise Fund (AWEF), when we set off to undertake our poverty targeting exercise, like many other market systems programs, we too decided to use the Poverty Probability…
Oct 31, 2017 | Olivia Tran, Alejandra Vargas Garcia & Martha Melesse
How Far We Have Come "Why would we pay women for something they are willing do for free?" Feminist economist Nancy Folbre, reminisced about a time when a male colleague uttered those words to…
Oct 26, 2017 | Microfinance Gateway
This blog post was originally published on the Microfinance Gateway. We're pleased to share it with the SEEP Community. Cindy Drakeman of DoubleXEconomy shares thoughts on women's economic em…
Sep 13, 2017 | Vincent Trousseau
This blog post originally appeared on Oxfam's Knowledge Hub Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Foru…
Sep 6, 2017 | Kathleen Colson, Blandina Kilama & Sarah Gammage
Digital services - with their geographic reach, ease of use, and transparency - are driving financial inclusion and alleviating poverty. But are rural women being left behind? In South Horr,…
Aug 11, 2017 | Mollie Liesner
This blog post originally appeared on Itad Blog and we're pleased to share it here with the SEEP Community. This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. T…
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