Beyond access : exploring gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion

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2018

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Access to financial products and services can be a key enabler to enhancing women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods. This scoping paper explores integration of gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion research and practice. It defines gender-transformative financial inclusion both as a process and as an outcome. It points to current knowledge gaps, and suggests areas for further research. For instance, “You can put all the financial inclusion you want in a woman’s life. But if we don’t reform constraints like women’s access to land, nothing changes.”

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GENDER MAINSTREAMING, FINANCIAL INCLUSION, WOMEN'S ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT, WOMEN'S ENTREPRENEURSHIP, SOUTH OF SAHARA, RESEARCH NEEDS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS, CREDIT, BANKING SYSTEMS

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/57156

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IDRC Research Results / Résultats de recherches du CRDI
2010-2019 / Années 2010-2019
Harnessing the transformative potential of financial inclusion / Exploiter le potentiel de transformation de l'inclusion financière