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Access Bank Case Study Spanish

Estudio de Caso: Access Bank

Estudio de Caso: Access Bank

La segmentación estratégica del Segmento Mujer de Access Bank ha impulsado un sólido crecimiento en el portafolio de mujeres en este banco nigeriano. Este estudio de caso explora cómo el banco desarrolló su estrategia y delinea varias de las innovaciones que el banco ha instituido para acercarse hacia las mujeres en Nigeria y en toda África. (English version)

Dead sea salt shore 2018 Summit GBA

Platforms to Massify Support to Women with Non-financial Services

Platforms to Massify Support to Women with Non-financial Services

At the 2018 Summit, Cristina Shapiro described Goldman Sachs 10,000 Women’s mini-MBA course for women entrepreneurs, currently housed on the Coursera platform. She highlighted some of the opportunities and challenges of digital non-financial services for women.

GBA Case Study: Access Bank

GBA Case Study: Access Bank

Access Bank’s innovative Women’s Market segmentation strategy has propelled strong growth in the women’s portfolio at the Nigerian powerhouse. This Case Study explores how they went about developing their strategy and some of the innovative ways they are reaching out to women in their home base and across Africa. (Versión en español)

Global Business Case Tool for Financial Services Providers

Global Business Case Tool for Financial Services Providers

This tool helps the user develop a business case for the Women’s Market by quantifying the market opportunity and estimating an FSP’s direct financial benefits from strategically targeting the female economy – providing strong groundwork for a presentation to senior management to integrate a Women’s Market program into the FSP’s overall strategy. The Excel-based tool also comes with a PDF guide to help the user understand how to use the resource.

TEB Presentation: TEB Women Academy

TEB Presentation: TEB Women Academy

This is the presentation given at TEB’s first TEB Women Academy, held in Istanbul Oct. 15, 2015. The event was the first in a series of gatherings intended to provide women in Turkey access to information about business and leadership, and it welcomed more than 300 businesswomen from throughout the country.

Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Clients

Strategies for Attracting and Retaining Female Clients

A critical mass of women — bolstered by rising education levels, unprecedented workforce participation and escalating income and wealth — are assuming more powerful roles in personal and family investing and decision making. This report looks at how to best empower financial advisors to grow their business among women and their families.

BLC Bank Women Empowerment Initiative – SBBN

BLC Bank Women
Empowerment Initiative – SBBN

This is a presentation BLC Bank made to the Small Business Banking Network in February 2013. It presents a comprehensive overview of BLC’s Women’s Market program, including top leadership buy-in (the bank’s head is a signatory to the UN Women’s Empowerment Principles), staff training, marketing & media, collateral-free loans for established (2+ years in operation) businesses, emphasis on building opportunities for women’s networking, business development services, financial literacy, and performance management & evaluation.

Delivery of Innovative Products & Services for Women

Delivery of Innovative Products & Services for Women

Delivery of Innovative
Products & Services for Women

This presentation was made to the Small Business Banking Network in February 2013. It is an excellent source of statistics on the SME landscape in Nigeria as well as the approach Diamond takes to defining its customer segments and serving each one. It also offers a discussion of the importance of banks’ provision of networking and educational opportunities for its SME clientele.

Westpac Case Study

Estudio de Caso: Westpac

Estudio de Caso: Westpac

Westpac, un pionero internacional en la provisión de servicios bancarios para la emergente economía de las mujeres, ha reconocido el potencial de las mujeres en Australia durante los últimos 15 años. (English version)

Preliminary Benefit-Cost Assessment of the Final OWG Outcome

Preliminary Benefit-Cost Assessment of the Final OWG Outcome

The Copenhagen Consensus Center provides information on which targets will do the most social good, relative to their costs. More than 30 of the world’s top economists have assessed the 169 targets from the Final Outcome of the Open Working Group (OWG) document into one of five categories, based on evidence of the economic, social and environmental costs and benefits.

Women's Entrepreneurial Venture Scope

Women’s Entrepreneurial Venture Scope

Women’s Entrepreneurial Venture Scope

WEVentureScope, put together by the Economist Intelligence Unit and commissioned by the IDB’s Multilateral Investment Fund, assembles indicators assessing the areas of business operating risks, the entrepreneurial business environment, access to finance, access to education and training and availability of social services to identify the best places for a woman to start and grow a business in the Latin America and Caribbean regions.

Solutions for Financial Inclusion: Serving Rural Women

Solutions for Financial Inclusion: Serving Rural Women

Solutions for Financial Inclusion: Serving Rural Women

This 15-page report from Women’s World Banking highlights the specific gender-based social, cultural and legal barriers that rural women face in accessing and using financial services in Uganda, and examines the operational challenges to sustainably serving this market.

A Path to Empowerment: The Role of Corporations in Supporting Women’s Economic Progress

A Path to Empowerment: The Role of Corporations in Supporting Women’s Economic Progress

A Path to Empowerment: The Role of Corporations in Supporting Women’s
Economic Progress

There is a growing recognition that the private sector, from multinational corporations to microenterprises, will be central in helping to achieve the agenda of women’s economic empowerment. This report is the summary of a series of roundtables on the subject convened by the Harvard Kennedy School Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center. The report is intended to help frame further discussion and catalyze action.

Progress of the World's Women 2015-2016

Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016

Progress of the World’s Women 2015-2016

Drawing on promising experiences from around the world, this United Nations report proposes a comprehensive agenda for key policy actors— including gender equality advocates, national governments and international agencies—to make human rights a lived reality for all women and girls.

Harnessing the Power of the Purse

Harnessing the Power
of the Purse

CTI finds that tapping the power of the purse depends on correcting industry misperceptions about female investors and an industry tendency to perceive women as a monolithic market. Geography, generation, source of wealth, and asset level are all factors affecting how women perceive wealth and arrive at decisions about its allocation.

Gender Inequality Index

Gender Inequality Index

The United Nations Development Programme’s GII measures gender inequalities in three important aspects of human development—reproductive health measured by maternal mortality ratio and adolescent birth rates; empowerment, measured by proportion of parliamentary seats occupied by females and proportion of adult females and males aged 25 years and older with at least some secondary education; and economic status expressed as labour market participation and measured by labour force participation rate of female and male populations aged 15 years and older.

World Development Indicators

World Development
Indicators

The primary World Bank collection of development indicators, compiled from officially-recognized international sources, presents the most current and accurate global development data available, and includes national, regional and global estimates. The data includes information on the status of women in business and the economy.