Women’s Empowerment – G2P Network

Will the Pandemic Exacerbate or Mitigate the Digital Gender Gap?

Date: January 11, 2021 Parul Tandon and Sonal Jaitly MicroSave Consulting

COVID-19’s disproportionate impact on women must be urgently addressed through the provision of digital financial literacy and access.

Enabling the community to overcome the pandemic through digital payments

Date: January 11, 2021 Truong Quyen and Akshat Pathak MicroSave Consulting

During the pandemic, Duong Thi Thuy, a mobile money agent in the Quang Ninh province, improvised her business to help her community follow the guidelines on social distancing and government norms. This is her story about the adoption of DFS and how it changed her life.

Enabling the community to embrace digital payments as the new normal after the COVID-19 pandemic

Date: January 6, 2021 Samveet Sahoo and Avi Hossain MicroSave Consulting

Since the onset of the pandemic, the low- and moderate-income (LMI) segment had a direct impact on their day-to-day life. We reflect through Kabita, an LMI customer in Bangladesh, on the barriers LMIs faced during the pandemic and how DFS nudged them towards building resilience.

Evidence OF Digital Financial Services Impacting Women’s Economic Empowerment

Date: October 12, 2020 Seth Garz, Rachel Heath, Elijah Kipchumba and Munshi Sulaiman BRAC Institute of Governance and Development

Increasing women’s economic empowerment is an important motivation for expanding access to digital financial services for women.

Building Back Better: Designing Cash Transfers for Women’s Empowerment

Date: August 26, 2020 Greta Bull, Caren Grown, Boutheina Guermazi, Michal Rutkowski, Mahesh Uttamchandani CGAP, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Women's World Banking, World Bank

For government-to-person payments to truly benefit the most vulnerable during COVID-19, they must tackle the inequalities that women are facing due to the pandemic.