Ep. 158: Women's Financial Inclusion - A Catalyst for Sustainable Development

About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of women's financial inclusion as a catalyst for sustainable development, featuring insights from a panel of experts.

Toronto Centre and CARE Canada co-hosted a virtual panel session to mark Canada's International Development Week . Closing the financial inclusion gender gap is essential for sustainable economic growth and stability. It empowers women socially and economically while strengthening financial systems. Safeguarding and accelerating the progress made over the past 15 years is critical to ensuring continued advancement. The panel explored strategies to drive women’s financial inclusion, focusing on policy innovations, digital financial services, savings and loan groups, and public-private partnerships. Panelists also discussed how evolving financial ecosystems can support women entrepreneurs, expand access to credit, and promote lasting economic participation. Panelists: May Abulnaga, First Sub-Governor, Central Bank of Egypt; New Chair, Gender Inclusive Finance Committee, Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) Sophie Sirtaine, CEO, Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP) Claudine Mensah Awute, Vice President, International Programs and Operations, CARE Moderator: Babak Abbaszadeh, President and CEO, Toronto Centre Watch the webinar here . Read the transcript here . Read their…

People in this episode

Guests: May Abulnaga, Sophie Sirtaine, Claudine Mensah Awute

Topics covered

• Women's Financial Inclusion
• Sustainable Development
• Economic Growth
• Financial Systems
• Policy Innovations
• Digital Financial Services

Keywords

• financial inclusion
• gender gap
• economic participation
• credit access
• entrepreneurs

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