10 Media Resources on Women's Digital Financial Inclusion
Are you a journalist interested in women's digital financial inclusion (WDFI)? Do you want to enhance your knowledge of WDFI challenges and gain better insight into global opportunities for change, particularly in Ethiopia and Africa?
Here are some resources to help you get started.
10 Media Resources on WDFI
1. Check out the FinEquity Knowledge Guide Series, a curated directory of practical resources – case studies, tools, publications, and more – for advancing women’s financial inclusion.
2. This blog published by the World Bank in February 2023 explores the unexpected consequence of financial digitalisation and how the growth of mobile banking in Sub-Saharan Africa has gone hand in hand with a growing gender gap in financial inclusion.
3. The GSMA Mobile Gender Gap Report (2023) explores the latest data on the mobile gender gap, the key barriers preventing women’s equal access to and use of mobile, and what is needed to close the mobile internet gender gap. It also highlights the socio-economic benefits of addressing these barriers for the mobile industry, the economy and society more broadly, and women themselves.
4. Read the 23 proposals to accelerate women's digital financial inclusion in Central Africa, from the UNCDF Advisory Panel on Women and Digital Financial Services in the CEMAC region
5. Prepared by the G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion and endorsed by G20 finance ministers, this report (July 2020) outlines 10 policy options to enable G20 members and other governments to rapidly work towards digital financial inclusion of all women.
6. For expert insights into the state of women's digital financial inclusion in Ethiopia, watch the replay of the WDFI Advocacy Hub launch event (9 June 2022, Addis Ababa), which brought together over 120 decision-makers, digital and financial experts to articulate a common vision to advance women’s economic empowerment through digital technology. Watch the video below:
7. The biennial African Women’s Report (2021) commissioned by the UN Economic Commission for Africa, analyses the digital finance ecosystem in Africa to examine all its components and how they impact women’s economic prospects.
8. The G7 Partnership for Women's Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa brings together a myriad of existing institutions working in Africa on complementary issues of research, investment, and regulation around digital finance and its potential benefits for women. Check out its 2022 accountability report.
9. This CGAP blog piece explains why making progress on women’s financial inclusion requires making changes to digital systems and processes. It also suggests six avenues for creating a digital financial ecosystem that supports women’s financial inclusion.
10. Check out the WDFI Advocacy Hub media gallery for images, videos and logos.
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