Insights
Reflections on the 2021 Global Findex
In June, the World Bank released its latest update of the Global Findex Database since 2017. Truly remarkable global gains have been made over the past decade. We also need to keep working. Here are our reflections on the latest dataset, and what we’re doing to address the most persistent barriers and gaps that remain.
Impacts of digital financial literacy in the lives of rural Ghanaians
Promoting women’s access to DFS through the audio content and facilitated group discussions has become one of the surest ways to reducing financial literacy gaps in Ghana.
“Hey Sister!” now available in French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili
Our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” digital financial literacy campaign continues to grow! Just like all of our other content, these audio episodes are available for download, use and adaptation by anyone, anywhere.
New digital financial literacy lessons available — and still open source
We have produced 15 new episodes of our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” digital financial literacy campaign. Grab a phone, listen in, read our scripts, make them your own! Like our first 10 lessons, the new scripts and recordings follow our three sisters, Josephine, Myriam, and Annette, as they continue their journey to safely using their mobile phones.
Facilitator spotlight: Christiana Zaglago empowers Ghanaian sisters
In the Volta Region of Ghana, Christiana Zaglago is training women from Mafi to use mobile money and improve their digital skills, using our USAID-funded Hey Sister! curriculum.
Supporting the smallholder farmer’s journey to digital financial inclusion
We partnered with TNM Mpamba, Mwandama Union Cooperative, and National Agriculture Smallholder Farmers Association of Malawi (NASFAM) in the pilot implementation of a digital financial Rural Stimulating Campaign in the Zomba district of Malawi. Here’s how it went.
What you’re listening to: Our most popular digital financial literacy lessons
Around the world, we are focused on closing the gender gap in accessing digital technology and building women’s digital skills and digital financial literacy. Read on to learn about our most popular lessons.
‘Let’s keep the gender lens on’
We know the pandemic is disproportionately impacting women and will only widen the gender-poverty gap. As we celebrate International Women’s Day this week, we applaud the champions who are driving the conversation to make equity a priority, putting gender at the center of response efforts.