Welcome to the latest issue of the Gateway Exchange! We are excited to announce the launch of the Women's Financial Inclusion Community of Practice Landing Page on the Gateway. Check out the new resources on this page and learn about the Community of Practice behind it.
As a media partner for the upcoming Women's Economic Empowerment (WEE) Global Learning Forum in Bangkok, Thailand on 23-25 May 2017, the Gateway had the opportunity to discuss the role of financial inclusion for women's empowerment with two of the event's featured speakers. Check out our Gateway Interviews with Naila Kabeer, Professor of Gender and Development at the London School of Economics, and Cindy Drakeman, founding CEO of DoubleXEconomy, LLC.
And as always, create an account today and share your resources with the financial inclusion community!
Interview with Naila Kabeer, Professor of Gender and Development
"...if you believe, as I do, that empowerment has a powerful collective dimension, that women coming together to ... find common solutions strengthens their ability to stand up to power, then I worry about whether digital financial services may be implemented in ways that erode these possibilities for collective reflection and action."
Emilio Hernández leads CGAP's work on financial innovation for smallholder families. He will be teaching two courses at the 3rd Annual Boulder Rural and Agricultural Finance Program (RAFP), which will take place from 17 July to 4 August 2017 in Turin, Italy. In this Gateway interview, he lets us know what to expect from this year's training program.
Ten years after the debut of mobile financial services (MFS), the sector is preparing for a switch to smartphones that will enable even more and better services. However, this report sounds a cautionary note about the readiness of the sector for a large-scale shift to smartphone and internet-based MFS, particularly for low-end consumers. If mobile financial services are to be a force for financial inclusion, stakeholders must not prematurely abandon older technologies as they concurrently push to create a smartphone-based future.
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