Insights: Women and Youth
Read insights from TechnoServe's work with women and young people—from expanding access to skills, resources, and economic opportunities to helping businesses and markets become more inclusive.
Developing a Business Case for Women’s Economic Empowerment with Agribusinesses
A practical framework from CASA TAF helps agribusinesses, investors, and development practitioners examine the commercial value of investing in women.
Mitigação de Riscos no Crédito Agrícola: Relatório e Ferramenta de Scorecard
No âmbito do fortalecimento do financiamento agrícola em Moçambique, o programa Women IN Business (WIN), implementado pela TechnoServe e financiado pela Embaixada da Suécia, desenvolveu em conjunto com um microbanco parceiro o Relatório sobre a Gestão de Riscos Agrícolas e uma Ferramenta de Scorecard. Estes instrumentos foram concebidos…
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.
