Campaign: Women’s Digital Financial Literacy in Ethiopia

One of the pillars of Ethiopia’s revised National Inclusion Strategy focuses on advancing financial education and consumer protection by building women’s capability and trust.

Working together across sectors, we collected resources, examples of good practices, and key insights on women’s digital financial literacy to share with the National Bank of Ethiopia and inform the implementation of the strategy.

Watch a short video overview of the campaign in English.

Watch a short video overview of the campaign in Amharic.

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Definition of digital financial literacy

Digital financial literacy combines the skills needed to navigate financial services with the skills to use digital technologies. This includes: 

• Knowledge of the value of digital financial products and services 

• Confidence in using digital financial products and services 

• Awareness of how to prevent and manage digital financial risks 

Source: Based on Policy Brief T20 Japan Task Force 7: The Future of Work and Education for the Digital Age

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Review the resource list

AFI and ASEAN

• Policy Note on Digital Financial Literacy for ASEAN

Asociación Española de Banca (AEB), CECA and Unión Nacional de Cooperativas de Crédito (Unacc)

• Aula Financiera y Digital

Banco de Chile and Fundación País Digital

• Educación Financiera Digital

Better Than Cash Alliance and Hindustan Unilever Limited

• Responsible Digitization of Small Entrepreneurs in Rural India: Lessons from digitizing the Hindustan Unilever Shakti channel

Center for Global Development

• A Decision Tree for Digital Financial Inclusion (video)

CGAP

• Break the Bias: Evidence Shows Digital Finance Risks Hit Women Hardest

Data-Pop Alliance

• The Gender Data 201 Course: Paving the Way for Gender Data Literacy

data2x

• Women’s Financial Inclusion Data Dictionary

Devex

• Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion

FinEquity

• Digital Financial Literacy Toolkit

• Enabling Women’s Financial Inclusion through Digital Financial Literacy

• Incorporating Gender-intelligent Design in Financial Services 

FSD Network

• Women’s Digital Financial Literacy as a lever for economic growth (video)

Fundación Capital

• LISTA strategy

GIZ

• Women’s Financial Inclusion Toolkit

GIZ and Central Bank of Jordan

• Digital Financial Literacy (Awareness Campaigns and Training

Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion

• Advancing Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion

GSMA

• Mobile Internet Skills Training Toolkit

IDEO and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

• Women & Money: Insights and a Path to Close the Gender Gap

IFC

• A new banking model for Africa: Lessons on digitization from four years of operations

International Center for Research on Women (ICRW)

• Gender and digital financial inclusion: What do we know and what do we need to know?

J-PAL

• Tablet-Based Financial Education in Colombia

Mara Academy

• Free courses

OECD

• Financial Literacy Needs of Migrants and their Families in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

OECD and CAF

• Educación e inclusión financieras en América Latina y el Caribe Programas de los bancos centrales y las superintendencias financieras

Strategic Impact Advisors

• Her Business, Her Future

• Hey sister! Show me the mobile money!

UNCDF

• LENGA financial and digital literacy app

• Scaling Up Access to Finance in Kigoma, Tanzania

UNCDF and Visa

• Build Back Better – Enhancing Recovery and Resilience of Small and Micro-Businesses (SMBs) financial and digital literacy project

  • Basic module (video)

  • Advanced module (video)

USAID

• Digital Finance and Women’s Economic Empowerment in beyond production roles in agriculture and food systems

The Double X Economy

• Digital Subwallets and Household Dialogues

The Toronto Centre

• Advancing Women's Digital Financial Inclusion

The World Bank

• The Impact of Financial Literacy Training for Migrants

World Economic Forum

• Women’s financial literacy benefits us all — here’s how

Note: We will update the resource list as we receive and review new submissions. Last updated: November 23, 2022.

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Campaign supporters

• Center for Accelerated Women’s Economic Empowerment

• Consortium of Self Help Group Approach Promoters (CoSAP)

• DOT Ethiopia

• FSD Africa

• GSMA

• Mercy Corps

• Persistent Technology

• Thunes

• Women’s World Banking

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