All Content Tagged “Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion”

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Microempresas client Isabelina Mosquera Murillo makes artesanal products crafted from the totumo fruit. Ricardo Ramos, Microempresas de Colombia

Finanzas para Todas: Applying a Gender Lens to Financial Education in Colombia

Governments and aid agencies often focus efforts on improving access to finance, however, access to financial products does not guarantee that people know how to use them wisely.

It’s as important to ensure that people can develop healthy and sustainable financial habits and behaviors that cement a better quality of life. In Colombia, USAID INVEST and partners developed a new digital tool to guide financial service providers in designing and delivering financial education using a gender-smart and intersectional approach.
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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Economic Growth
  • Education
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Inclusive Development
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Activity Design and Implementation
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Gender Lens Investing: USAID INVEST Resource Guide

USAID INVEST’s Resource Guide contains stories, tools, and data that capture lessons learned in gender lens investing.

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  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Partnerships
Fact Sheet
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Photo Credit: Bobby Neptune for USAID

Fact Sheet: New Commitments to the Women in the Digital Economy Initiative

Explore this fact sheet to learn more about the Women in the Digital Economy Fund and new partner commitments to the Women in the Digital Economy Initiative.

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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Economic Growth
  • Education
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Partnerships
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The gender equity assessment rating tool will help Kiva have more impact for women borrowers, like Jacqueline from the Dominican Republic. Photo Credit: Kiva

Assessing Gender-forward Organizational Practices: Kiva’s Gender Equity Assessment Rating Tool

With USAID support, online lending platform Kiva developed a publicly accessible tool for financial service providers to assess how they consider gender across the work environment.

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  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Partnerships
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10 Ways USAID is Advancing Gender Equality and Women’s and Girls’ Empowerment

USAID is committed to being a leading investor, partner, and advocate to achieve the goal of gender equality across societies. Jamille Bigio, USAID Senior Gender Coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment, highlights 10 of the ways USAID is advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment around the world.

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  • International Women's Day
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Education
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Gender-based Violence
  • Humanitarian Response, Crises and Conflict
  • Sexual and Reproductive Health
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
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The Nature of Fashion: Peruvian designers incorporate the textile traditions of an Indigenous group in the Amazon

USAID’s Amazon Business Alliance, a joint initiative with the Government of Canada and Conservation International, promotes economic development based on the sustainable use of natural resources and on gender and intercultural approaches to improve the people’s welfare and forest conservation.

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  • Biodiversity, Conservation, and Natural Resources Management
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
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Bridging Kenya’s Gender Digital Divide

"Particularly in Kenya, chamas are such ubiquitous and strong organizational networks for women." - Rebecca Glas

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  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion

Gender Digital Divide Gender Analysis Technical Resource

Learn about the Gender Digital Divide through the information presented in this technical resource, developed to address women’s equitable participation in the national, regional and global economy. 

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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership

Gender Digital Divide Risk Mitigation Technical Note

Learn about risk mitigation for the Gender Digital Divide through the information presented in this technical note, developed to address women’s equitable participation in the national, regional and global economy.

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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion

Gender Digital Divide Desk Review

Review the current state of the Gender Digital Divide, why it exists, how it is tracked and measured, and potential mitigation strategies.

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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Entrepreneurship, Digital, and Financial Inclusion