At BFA Global we regularly evaluate inclusiveness of programs and products via a gender lens, with an eye toward Sustainable Development Goal 5: achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls. This page features some of our latest publications highlighting the role that finance, data, and technology can play in closing the gender gap.
As the COVID-19 crisis continues to ransack economies across developed and emerging markets, expectations are that low-income people –...
Cynthia Wandia is the CEO and co-founder of Kwara, an accounting and business management SaaS for SACCOs in Kenya....
MTN Ghana launched a merchant payment service in January 2017 called MoMo Pay to increase mobile money use in...
Summary We are told by the Nigeria National Bureau of Statistics that female heads of household in Nigeria...
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, May 29, 2020 The infection rate of COVID-19 is as yet low...
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 30, 2020 How Kenyan mothers are keeping food on the table through...
Originally posted on the FSD Kenya Website, April 21, 2020 Coronavirus disruptions are giving some Kenyan women a reprieve...
Spoon Money is helping South Africa’s female informal traders transform their businesses Catalyst Fund accelerates startups that excel on...
A former securities broker and two-time entrepreneur, Monica Saccarelli was the first female partner at Brazilian brokerage house Link...
Authored by Sushmita Meka; Sally Ross, AKF; Daryl Collins The rapid growth of mobile money in some countries has...
Savings groups play an important role for individuals who lack options to save large amounts of money or have...
This report draws on Financial Diaries data from India, Kenya, and Mexico to enhance the field’s understanding of women’s...
Responsibilities and problems around money in most societies are gendered A recent study from Harvard Sociologist Alexandra Achen Killewald...
This report is based on research by BFA Global for GSMA in partnership with Visa Inc. It offers insights on...
Zambia recorded its first case of COVID-19 on March 18 and took early action to contain the spread. As...
It has now been 19 days since the WHO declared the COVID-19 crisis a pandemic on March 11....
This is the second case study in our report, ‘Inclusion and Your Bottom Line’, which outlines a new mixed-method...