Insights
“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.
Spotlight on COMSIP in Malawi: “Hey Sister!” builds women’s digital financial literacy
In Malawi, more than 11,000 women have used our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” lessons to build their digital financial literacy, and our partner COMSIP Cooperative Union Limited has helped us promote the series and train nearly 3,000 Malawians with the campaign.
In Uganda, can cows help close the credit gap?
Around 1.4 million Ugandan households rely on cows for income, milk, and draft power. But that’s not all: Cows can also act as a form of savings and insurance. In late 2020, SIA helped FSDU explore the possibility of creating digital profiles of each farmer and their cattle to help streamline the registration process in the movable asset registry.