Improving Women Pastoralists’ Access to Animal Health Services: Recommendations in Ethiopia and Kenya

  • Partner: CoWater SPARC
  • Publication Type: Blog
  • Date: September 9, 2024

This blog provides evidence-based recommendations to improve women pastoralists’ access to animal health, using the experiences of pastoral communities in the drylands of Ethiopia and Kenya.

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Bridging the Gender Gap in Animal Health Services as a Resilience Pathway: Insights from Pastoralist Communities in Ethiopia and Kenya

  • Partner: CoWater SPARC
  • Publication Type: Blog
  • Date: September 9, 2024

This blog explores the dynamics of women’s and men’s access to and use of animal health services (AHS) among pastoralist communities.

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Profit with Purpose: How Women-Inclusive Business Practices Drive SME Success

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Blog
  • Date: July 18, 2024

This blog from Business Fights Poverty examines how inclusive investments advance growth for SMEs and explores insights from the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment case study series.

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Closing the Gap: A Synthesis Report on the Cases for the ROI of Women’s Inclusion

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: April 24, 2024

This synthesis report in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series showcases promising models of women-inclusive investments and summarizes case study findings to support further understanding and implementation.

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Workplace Innovation: Okeba’s Return on Investment in Childcare

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: March 25, 2024

This second case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines how Okeba, a Ugandan agribusiness, provided care support to its staff and ultimately reduced costs.

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Strategic Inclusion: Grean World’s Financial Returns of Targeting Women in The Last Mile

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP), DAI, Williams Davidson Institute
  • Publication Type: Case Study
  • Date: January 17, 2024

This first case study in the Women-Inclusive Return on Investment series examines the impact of Grean World’s successful shift from a centralized sales model to one that prioritized female village-based sales agents.

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Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) Framework

  • Partner: USAID Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships (MSP)
  • Publication Type: Learning Brief
  • Date: November 14, 2022

The new Women-Inclusive Return on Investment (WI-ROI) Framework builds on an existing body of evidence and research around the business case for investing in women’s inclusion. It also reflects the industry outlook on women’s inclusion at the firm level and highlights successful business strategies to achieve financial impact from investment in women’s inclusion.

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Scale2Save: Driving Financial Resilience Through Formal Savings Among the Low-Income Population

  • Partner: World Savings and Retail Banking Institute (WSBI), European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG), Mastercard Foundation
  • Publication Type: Report
  • Date: November 2022

This learning paper explores customer resilience in the financial sector and provides a comprehensive regulatory toolkit for policymakers to develop frameworks that foster customer resilience and emphasize the role of financial institutions in promoting responsible practice and access to financial products.

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Gender Norms in Financial Inclusion: Diagnostic Guidance

  • Partner: CGAP (Consultative Group to Assist the Poor)
  • Publication Type: Guidance
  • Date: October 2022

There is growing recognition of the important role gendered social norms play in influencing how women access, use and benefit from financial services and of how gender norms contribute to consistently lower rates of financial inclusion among women. CGAP, working with MarketShare Associates, developed a methodology for systematically unpacking the behavior of women as customers and users of financial services, assessing how these behaviors are shaped by gender norms, and in turn establishing how women’s financial inclusion is impacted.

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Pilot Testing of the Toolkit To Address Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development: Learning Brief

  • Partner: USAID FTF Advancing Women’s Empowerment (AWE), EnCompass LLC
  • Publication Type: Brief
  • Date: August 1, 2022

This learning brief shares results from pilot testing the Toolkit to Address Gender-Based Violence in Agriculture and Market Systems Development with the Feed the Future Uganda Inclusive Agriculture Markets (IAM) Activity.

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