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Why Financial Institutions Should Close the Gender Data Gap : In 2011, Women’s World Banking launched the Gender Performance Initiative to address this gap
How can we leverage the data revolution, to improve financial services for the poor, and ultimately the lives of the women (and men) who receive them, if we don’t have the capability to collect “good” data? In 2011, WWB launched our Gender Performance Initiative to develop gender-based indicators for measuring how well we are serving women.
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- Impact Assessment
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- microfinance
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From Pavement Begging to Stable Housing, Stable Incomes : The Equitas Bird’s Nest program is moving pavement dwellers in Chennai toward secure housing
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to interview John about Equitas’s ultra poor pilot in Chennai. In this interview, he talks about the challenges his team faced while working with the pavement dwellers, the importance of sustainability and the road ahead for Equitas Bird’s Nest program.
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- Finance
