All Content Tagged “Women's Economic Empowerment”

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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
Fact Sheet
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Working with the State Great Hural’s Parliamentary Research Institute in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, USAID provided parliament members and staff tips for using both traditional media and new digital platforms to engage constituents. 2021 DRG Photo Contest finalist, International Republican Institute

USG Launches Initiative to Advance Women’s Political Leadership

Discover the U.S. Government's $850M initiative to advance women's political leadership globally in the digital age. Read more in the USAID fact sheet.

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  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Education
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership
  • Activity Design and Implementation
  • Partnerships
Summary

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

Investing in Women to Strengthen Supply Chains

A global partnership to scale women’s economic empowerment in PepsiCo’s agricultural supply chains

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  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Partnerships
Fact Sheet
Bobby Neptune for USAID
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
Blog
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A solar panel on a thatched roof. Photo Credit: Azuri Technologies

#MindTheGap: How Catalytic Funding Mobilized $1 Billion for Clean Energy, Gender Equality, and Resilient Agriculture

USAID has mobilized more than $1 billion in private capital for development through INVEST, working in 81 countries across a wide range of sectors, including gender equality.

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  • Economic Growth
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Gender-Based Violence
  • Biodiversity, Conservation, and Natural Resources Management
  • Adolescent Girls/Youth
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Analysis
  • Inclusive Development
  • LGBTQI+ Peoples
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting
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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
Blog

USAID and PepsiCo Work Together to Unlock Women’s Economic Opportunities in India

PepsiCo and USAID have partnered to develop new gender-responsive on-farm approaches that generate data and insights that will make a compelling business case for scaling investments in women’s economic empowerment within agricultural supply chains in India and around the world.

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  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Economic Growth
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
Brief

Fact Sheet: USAID Highlights Gender Equality Commitments at 68th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women

Read this fact sheet that highlights USAID's gender equality commitments, including Care Infrastructure, Gender Equality in Agrifood Systems, and the Women in the Sustainable Economy Initiative (WISE).

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  • Agriculture and Food Security
  • Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance
  • Digital Access and Technology
  • Energy and Infrastructure
  • Climate, Environment, and Natural Resource Management
  • Economic Growth and Gender Equality
  • Gender Equality in the Workforce
  • Inclusive Development
  • Policy
  • Resilience and Food Security
  • Women's Economic Empowerment
  • Women’s Leadership