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…
Jul 31, 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…
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This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. There is consensus among the development community that women trail men when it comes to formal financial inc…
Jul 20, 2017 | Raymond Brandes
This blog post originally appeared on the SNV 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.…
Jul 12, 2017 | Nicole Kresse
This blog post originally appeared on the Chemonics Connections 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…
Jun 22, 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…
Jun 12, 2017 | Anita Raj & Jeni Klugman
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. This blog was written by Dr. Anita Raj of the University of California at San Diego School of Medicine and the…
May 26, 2017 | Naila Kabeer
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. I was asked in my keynote to address the question: economic versus non-economic empowerment: is there a false…
May 24, 2017 | Ulrike Joras
This blog is published as part of the 2017 WEE Global Learning Forum Blog Series. Join Oxfam, CARE International, World Cocoa Foundation, FAO, Marcatus QED and Coca-Cola ASEAN at the 2017 WEE…
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