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Economic Violence Blog

What Is Economic Violence and What Can Financial Service Providers Do About It?

Posted on 10/19/2023

Comfort, a Ghanaian cocoa farmer, looks proudly at the camera. She's standing next to a few of her cocoa trees.

"I am a more powerful woman than before."

Posted on 10/16/2023

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Creating opportunity for vulnerable women in the Pacific islands

Posted on 10/06/2023

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Agent Gender Matters, but How to Recruit and Retain Women Agents?

Posted on 08/28/2023

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Creating jobs and expanding financial inclusion in refugee settlements

Posted on 07/12/2023

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Dismantling Bias: Lessons Learned from Grameen Foundation’s Gender and Power Dynamics Workshops

Posted on 07/06/2023

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Listen to Me and Support Me

Posted on 05/24/2023

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BELUU announces the first batch of Innovation Grant winners!

Posted on 05/18/2023

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Unaddressed and Unacceptable Sacrifices: The Role of Financial Services for Food Security and Nutrition

Posted on 05/11/2023

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We don’t empower her. We empower her ecosystem.

Posted on 05/10/2023

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Meet Sylvia: Grameen’s work starts with walking in her shoes

Posted on 04/12/2023

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Towards a More Sustainable Livelihood for Business Correspondent Agents

Posted on 04/03/2023

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2023 International Women's Day Event Recap: Invest in Her Power

Posted on 03/14/2023

Ayisha, a Grameen Agent in northern Ghana, assists a client in her kiosk.

Coming Forward: The Role of Mobile Money Agents in Driving Women’s Financial Inclusion

Posted on 02/24/2023

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Fewer ‘Heropreneurs,’ More Heroic Women: Grameen Foundation’s New CEO Discusses Her Vision for the Organization – And the Broader Financial Inclusion Sector

Posted on 01/03/2023

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Grameen Foundation Celebrates 25 Years of EmpowHERment

Posted on 10/28/2022

Ayisha, a mobile money agent in Ghana, assists her client, Fuseini, who is wearing a blue flowered head covering

Promoting Women’s Financial Inclusion Through Mobile Money Enterprises in Ghana

Posted on 09/14/2022

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Women like Comfort are seen as victims of climate change. You can help them become the solution.

Posted on 09/02/2022

Malti, a Community Agent in Bihar, India, sits at her desk with a laptop. She is smiling at the camera.

Augmented Reality for Financial Literacy: An Innovative Approach to Delivering Immersive Customer Education

Posted on 08/24/2022

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New Survey Results Show Grameen Refugee Programs Are Gaining Traction

Posted on 08/18/2022

Malti, a Community Agent in Bihar, India, sits at her desk with a laptop. She is smiling at the camera.

What Do Community Agents Need to Succeed? Findings From Our Research in India

Posted on 07/22/2022

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India’s Women Business Correspondents are Struggling: Three Steps to Increase Their Viability – And Boost Financial Inclusion

Posted on 05/12/2022

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Meet our Digital Financial Services Innovation Prize Winners: Catalyzing Change in Eswatini Through Digital Tools

Posted on 05/11/2022

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Child Labor: An Unintended Consequence of Women’s Entrepreneurship?

Posted on 05/09/2022

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Cryptocurrency and Women's Empowerment: A Success Story

Posted on 04/14/2022

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Growing Her Future: How digital farming can reduce gender divides in agriculture.

Posted on 03/31/2022

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WAGE Sri Lanka: Holistically Empowering Women Leaders

Posted on 03/18/2022

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Connecting Women to Agriculture Digital Services: Pathways to Scale

Posted on 03/17/2022

A Grameen Agent in India helps a client access digital funds using her fingerprint. The Agent is a woman in a dark blue and green sari. The client is a woman in a pink sari. They are on a dirt sidewalk, next to a basket of fruit and some burlap sacks.

The Invisible Women in India’s Farmer Producer Organizations

Posted on 03/11/2022

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New Online Toolkit Expands ‘Do No Harm’ Best Practices to Include Child Labor

Posted on 02/25/2022

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Innovative Tools for Smallholder Farmers across Africa and Asia

Posted on 01/24/2022

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"Being a DFS+ Agent means helping community members live exemplary lives."

Posted on 12/13/2021

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It's complicated: Mitigating risk for women entrepreneurs

Posted on 11/03/2021

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Building Forward Together

Posted on 10/27/2021

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Accelerating Digital Transformation in Agriculture

Posted on 10/25/2021

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Healthy, wealthy, and wise kids: Mitigating the risk of child labor through health financing.

Posted on 09/23/2021

A Grameen Agent in India helps a client access digital funds using her fingerprint. The Agent is a woman in a dark blue and green sari. The client is a woman in a pink sari. They are on a dirt sidewalk, next to a basket of fruit and some burlap sacks.

Grameen Mittras: Fostering financial independence, one woman at a time.

Posted on 09/15/2021

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Reducing gender-based violence for women entrepreneurs in northern Ghana.

Posted on 08/10/2021

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Dear Big Tech leaders: Instead of harvesting our data and launching yourselves into space, how about making life better on Earth?

Posted on 08/06/2021

Mary Sadia works at her new restaurant in Bidi Bidi refugee camp

With training and financial access, women refugees achieve a lot with a little.

Posted on 06/16/2021

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Why Grameen Foundation is joining the ILO’s Alliance 8.7 to End Child Labor.

Posted on 05/28/2021

A Filipino farmer gazes out onto his coconut field, which has been ravaged by a typhoon.

The continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on farmers in the Philippines.

Posted on 05/19/2021

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Why do we focus on empowering poor women?

Posted on 05/12/2021

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Preparing community health workers to deploy the COVID-19 vaccine: Five lessons on digital training learned from the Ebola crisis.

Posted on 05/10/2021

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Statement on India and COVID-19

Posted on 05/05/2021

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Can financial service providers help reduce intimate partner violence?

Posted on 03/03/2021

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Maps to the Future: How can soil map data be used by smallholder cocoa farmers?

Posted on 02/01/2021

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Results of Grameen Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Relief Program

Posted on 12/10/2020

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Help during COVID crisis becomes ladder up to financial inclusion for poor women

Posted on 12/08/2020

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'On the Basis of Sex'

Posted on 09/21/2020

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From Ebola to COVID-19: Arming frontline workers with truth

Posted on 09/04/2020

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What is $100 amid a global pandemic? ‘The answer to a prayer.’

Posted on 08/25/2020

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COVID-19 in the Philippines: A Q&A with Community Agent Jenny Gramo.

Posted on 04/20/2020

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Grameen Foundation creates “COVID-19 Emergency Relief.”

Posted on 04/08/2020

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A lever for change.

Posted on 03/05/2020

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WomenLink Philippines is catalyzing economic empowerment among poor and low-income women.

Posted on 03/04/2020

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Grameen and Digipay partner to teach financial literacy to empower women.

Posted on 02/27/2020

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Winning the war against Ebola requires a two-front battle.

Posted on 02/11/2020

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Lessons in designing online education to empower women.

Posted on 01/02/2020

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These Ideas must die: Notions impeding financial inclusion progress.

Posted on 11/04/2019

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A Ugandan refugee camp hosts potential for financial inclusion.

Posted on 08/05/2019

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How can we strengthen women’s economic empowerment in Central America? With a $368K matching fund and wrap-around support.

Posted on 04/16/2019

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An entrepreneur by any other name.

Posted on 03/15/2019

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Coffee, cocoa, and the cutting edge.

Posted on 03/07/2019

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This International Women’s Day, let’s use technology to advance #balanceforbetter.

Posted on 03/07/2019

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Making every breakthrough count.

Posted on 12/14/2018

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Sindhu: A woman empowered through financial services.

Posted on 10/19/2018

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End hunger, support women and smallholder farmers.

Posted on 10/16/2018

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Empowering the new data citizens.

Posted on 10/02/2018

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Paving the way for data-driven agriculture: Who's your farmer?

Posted on 09/27/2018

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Are savings groups for vulnerable populations a good idea?

Posted on 08/29/2018

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Delicate, yet resilient: Women’s savings groups weather a drought in Burkina Faso.

Posted on 08/08/2018

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Educating tomorrow’s leaders starts with her financial breakthrough today.

Posted on 08/08/2018

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India’s biometrics payment system shows benefits and challenges in project for women’s financial inclusion.

Posted on 07/24/2018

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Can we end poverty and preserve the planet?

Posted on 06/19/2018

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Africa’s growing agri-tech calls for rapid policy response.

Posted on 06/12/2018

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Big data and smallholder farmers.

Posted on 04/17/2018

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What boosts gender equality in developing countries?

Posted on 03/07/2018

United in the Fight Against Poverty

Posted on 10/25/2016

Help us harness the power of digital data to empower self-sufficiency.