Resources for Expanding Rural Financial Services
Research, guidance, and tools from WIN 2.0 offer practical lessons for supporting financial service providers to reach women in rural Mozambique.
When Pilots Don’t Take Off – Closing a pilot, pivoting to redirect efforts and what WIN learnt
This study is one of a five- part series of learning products and tools designed to help companies to be more gender inclusive. This brief focuses on the learnings from a 12-month pilot, where four clear barriers were identified to successful implementation and the team eventually pivoted to redirect…
Reaching Rural Women as a customer segment: A readiness guide for Financial Service Providers in Mozambique
The guide places a particular focus on reaching women smallholder farmers (SHFs) as a customer segment. It is designed to be used alongside WIN’s other learning products including a study on rural women’s financial behaviours. Click here to download the Rural Readiness Self-assessment Tool: EN or PT…
How to develop a gender-inclusive approach – Executive Summary
This guide provides a structured approach that combines segmentation, inclusive materials, usability testing, capability-building across staff, and practical education to expand the reach and impact of products and services among women customers. Click here to download the Gender Inclusion Toolkit: EN or PT…
How to develop a gender inclusive approach for product development and communication
This guide provides a structured approach that combines segmentation, inclusive materials, usability testing, capability-building across staff, and practical education to expand the reach and impact of products and services among women customers. Click here to download the Gender Inclusion Toolkit: EN or PT…
Unlocking Market Potential: Insights into Rural Women’s Financial Behaviours – Executive Summary
Low-income rural women in Mozambiqueare active economic agents. They farm, save,borrow, and invest in their business. Yet theformal financial sector has largely failed toreach them. This brief summarises findingsfrom 753 interviews with women smallholderfarmers (SHFs) across Nampula, Niassa, andZambezia provinces.
Unlocking Market Potential: Insights into Rural Women’s Financial Behaviours
Low-income rural women in Mozambique are active economic agents. They farm, save, borrow, and invest in their business. Yet the formal financial sector has largely failed to reach them. This brief summarises findings from 753 interviews with women smallholder farmers (SHFs) across Nampula, Niassa, and Zambezia provinces.
TechnoServe Connection: From Home Cook to Confident CEO
In this conversation, TechnoServe's Chief Advancement Officer John Keightley sits down with Celina Portillo Alvarez and Gabriella Matut to walk through how Authentico Catering turned a home kitchen startup into a thriving B2B corporate catering enterprise.
Re:Development: Can Shared Value Help Fill the Foreign Aid Gap?
In our latest "Re:Development" episode, Walmart Chief Sustainability Officer Kathleen McLaughlin explains how the world's largest retailer views social and environmental sustainability in its global operations, and why shared value is key to good business.
Women in Recycling: Driving Arequipa’s Circular Economy
In Peru, recycling is a way to address an urgent environmental issue and an opportunity to build an inclusive circular economy that creates new economic opportunities for women and youth.
