Digital Financial Services
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FinDev Guide to Women’s Financial Inclusion
CGAP
2023
FinDev Guide to Women’s Financial Inclusion
For the 2023 International Women’s Day, FinDev Gateway compiled research and blogs published about women’s financial inclusion in the previous twelve months. Members of the DSG Hub will likely find the collection of resources on “Digital Finance That Works for Women” most relevant. These resources include:
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Blog Post
Who Pays and for What? Assessing the Cost of Digitizing Savings Groups
By
Simon Levell,
March 1, 2023
Who Pays and for What? Assessing the Cost of Digitizing Savings Groups
This blog explores the costs of implementing digital savings group projects.
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FinEquity 2023 Annual Meeting
CGAP
2023
FinEquity 2023 Annual Meeting
FinEquity’s 2023 Annual Meeting explored the nexus linking financial inclusion, women’s empowerment, and climate change, with the purpose of understanding how financial services can help women adapt their livelihoods to erratic rainfall patterns and rising temperatures to mitigate climate risks. Among others, the speakers addressed digitally-enabled financial inclusion, stressing the importance of designing digital financial […]
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Multimedia
Capital Musings Podcast Show
UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF)
2023
Capital Musings Podcast Show
The UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) started its podcast show, Capital Musings, in September 2019 to platform individuals driving impact and change in the area of “last mile” finance models that unlock public and private resources to reduce poverty and support local economic development. All episodes can be found the Capital Musings website. While every […]
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Tool
Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)
By Lauren Hendricks, Dennis Mello, Paula Rudnicka
Global Communities, Women for Women International
2023
Imfashanyigisho Y’ibigo By’ubwizigame Byo Mu Buryo Bw’ikoranabuhanga (DSG)
This version of the DSG Toolkit: Tools to Support Safe and Gender-responsive Digitization of Savings Groups translated from English into Kinyarwanda, consists of seven practical tools to support safe, effective, and gender-responsive digitization of savings groups. These tools include practical guidance for implementers and trainers across multiple aspects of digitization, such as: Each tool can […]
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Multimedia
Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
Global Communities
2023
Vendor and Product Showcase: DSG Technologies Advancing Financial Inclusion
This virtual event, hosted on February 1, 2023 by Global Communities and the FAHU Foundation, explored a wide range of digital solutions designed for savings groups. Global Communities opened the Showcase by introducing the new and improved DSG Vendors and Products tool on the DSG Hub. Next, nine DSG vendors and innovators showcased their products […]
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Tool
Knowledge Guide: Digital Financial Literacy
FinEquity
2023
Knowledge Guide: Digital Financial Literacy
FinEquity has created a Digital Financial Literacy Knowledge Guide to showcase existing resources on digital financial literacy (DFL), which is as a key factor for women’s financial and digital inclusion. The guide is made up of three sections: good practice guidelines, implementation case studies, and example curricular. As with all FinEquity’s Knowledge Guides, this is […]
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Article
6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption
By Laura Scanlon
ICTworks
2023
6 Reasons Your Digital Innovations Can Fail to Reach Adoption
The article discusses six key reasons why a digital innovation product or service would fail to become widely used. They are related to organizational structure and capacity, unrealistic expectations, magpie mentality, first impressions, measurement, and founder dependency. The article also offers suggestions to bolster adoption of digital innovations, including creating a roadmap to adoption, giving […]
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Training
VSLA Digital Training App
DanChurchAid (DCA)
2022
VSLA Digital Training App
The VSLA Simulation Game App, developed with funding from FAHU Foundation, offers an alternative approach to training people in the use of the VSLA methodology. It includes a simulation of a full VSLA cycle as well as video trainings in important elements of the VSLA methodology, all of which is based on the “Field Officer Training Guide” […]
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Research
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
Devex and Visa
2022
Bridging the Divide: Skills for Digital Financial Equity and Inclusion
This report showcases data-driven insights on the ways in which digital financial services, skills, and trust impact equitable and inclusive participation in the digital economy. Findings in the report show that initiatives must address the knowledge, confidence and trust needed for individuals to use the technology and services more effectively; programs are most effective when […]