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Advancing the policy debate on sex-disaggregated financial inclusion data

We supported the Financial Alliance for Women (formerly GBA) to implement its Women’s Market Data Initiative. 

This involved research and supporting the peer learning calls among members that led to output the ‘Power of Women’s Market Data – How to Guide’. 

To complement this, we conducted research and stakeholder consultation and contributed to writing ‘Measuring Women’s Financial Inclusion: The Value of Sex-disaggregated data’ a collaboration between the Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and Data2X.

This report was based on interviews with over 50 regulators, policymakers, International Finance Institutions (IFIs) and bankers from around the world and reveals just how sex-disaggregated data could inform better policies and prompt the private sector to take on this missed market opportunity to provide financial services to women.

“The availability of sex-disaggregated data effectively begins a virtuous cycle, where its availability helps inform stronger, evidence-based policymaking and helps to evaluate the effectiveness of the policies, thus enabling better policy development”