Translating Insights into Impact

We help financial institutions, regulators, and development partners unlock inclusive growth by turning market insights into scalable solutions for underserved women, youth, and entrepreneurs.

How We Work

We Ground Our Work in Evidence

Our work is grounded in a deep understanding of market dynamics, regulatory contexts, and partner institutions’ unique capabilities, ensuring they work in practice and deliver sustainable impact.

We Design Solutions that Fit the Context

We design solutions that reflect market dynamics, regulatory contexts and institutional realities, ensuring they work in practice and lead to impactful results.

We Apply a Meaningful Gender Lens

We use research-driven methods to identify and address gender disparities in access, usage, and outcomes and design financial and non-financial services that genuinely empower women.

We Bring Cross-sector Insight to Financial Services

Drawing on experience from fast-moving consumer-facing industries, we bring partners a broader analytical perspective and practical innovation expertise to thrive in evolving markets.

What Enables Her Business to Grow: Practitioner Toolkit

This practitioner toolkit is a customer segmentation framework and practical guide designed for financial service providers, funders, business support organizations, and financial regulators to develop segment-specific value propositions for WSMEs in emerging markets.

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What We Do

SME Banking

Tailored Value Propositions to support small businesses across markets.

Entrepreneurship Development

Solutions that combine finance with business skills, tools, and support.

Digital Finance Services

Designing inclusive, intuitive digital financial products and services.

Gender Data & Inclusion

From diagnostics to dashboards, we help institutions act on women's gender inclusive finance.

Policy & Regulation

Supporting central banks and regulators with evidence-driven advice.

Youth and Future Resilience

We empower young people with digital tools, financial skills, and opportunities to build resilient futures.

Where We Work

80

Projects

60

Countries

Deep work in Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, Latin America, and more.

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Mongolia

WE Finance Code Implementation, Central Asia
Youth-in-Business Market Assessment, Central Asia
EBRD/We-Fi Stepping up for Women: Gender-inclusive Supply Chain Research and Business Case

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Egypt

Practical Solutions to Accelerating Digital Financial Services for Inclusive Economies – “Bellagio Working Group”
Women-in-Business market outline and briefing sessions, Egypt
Women-in-Business Programme Technical Assistance, Egypt

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Indonesia

Business case assessment and strategic advice for a low-income women-focused savings offer in India
Strategic guidance for women-led growth for a leading mobile money provider in Indonesia
Insights on the business case for non-financial services (NFS) for women-owned SMEs

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Mexico

“Women Rising/Mujeres Empresarias en Ascenso”: regional survey on women’s market strategies, practices and sex-disaggregated data in Latin America and the Caribbean

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Colombia

Market assessment, feasibility for holistic SME Banking project
Segmenting Women SME: creating a toolkit for Gender-Lens Investing
Building a WSME Value Proposition for Banco Davivienda

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Rwanda

WSME Strategy Design and Launch
SME Response Clinic
Market assessment, feasibility for holistic SME Banking projects in East Africa

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Uganda

Market assessment, feasibility for holistic SME Banking projects in East Africa
Implementation of a Holistic SME Banking Model
Compassionate Leadership Series

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Nigeria

Practical Solutions to Accelerating Digital Financial Services for Inclusive Economies – “Bellagio Working Group”
Gender-intelligent design of a digital client interface (chatbot) for a leading microfinance institution
Building National Gender Data Ecosystem

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South Africa

Strategy for launching a new inclusive finance bank in partnership with a national postal service

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Guatemala

“Women Rising/Mujeres Empresarias en Ascenso”: regional survey on women’s market strategies, practices and sex-disaggregated data in Latin America and the Caribbean
Identifying opportunities to promote women’s digital financial inclusion in Guatemala
Implementation of women-centered digital financial inclusion in Guatemala

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Pakistan

Segmenting Women SME: creating a toolkit for Gender-Lens Investing
Building National Gender Data Ecosystem
Generating Women’s Market Insights through the Development of Women’s Financial Inclusion (WFI) Dashboard

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Kenya

Assessing Kenya’s digital economy: which policy framework does it need
Operating Models for digitally-enabled financial inclusion: assessing unit-cost of distribution channels
Driving Awareness, collection and use of sex-disaggregated data in Kenya

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Morocco