The GESI practice at MSC provides gender-centric solutions to practitioners and policymakers. The team focuses on the two distinct but interconnected aspects—women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment.
Our vision is to move the needle on gender equality in the medium to long term by enhancing women’s agency. We work to improve women’s social security, financial health, economic participation and representation.
Over 22 years, we have developed niche expertise in equity-centered research and analysis, managing and evaluating gender-mainstreaming initiatives, capacity-building and training, and program design for gender equality.
Our clients include include government agencies, philanthropic organizations, thought leaders, financial service providers, NGOs, pioneering leaders, community members, and subject matter experts across Africa and Asia.
For our research on the impact of COVID-19, see how COVID-19 recovery is likely to fail women—digital financial services can help, if designed well, and what does it take to nudge LMI to adopt DFS. Also, see the design to realize gender equality, women’s financial inclusion: what are the missing pieces of the puzzle?, improving the financial health and business prospects of women entrepreneurs, and reimagining the way we examine women-run businesses.
Please see our factsheets to understand how Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Senegal, Kenya, and Uganda perform across gender-specific indicators. You can view a comparison of the status across these countries here.
Check here to explore the world of diligent women entrepreneurs in 2022, 2023 and 2024
Latest insights from our side:
- Good News from Bihar, India: Women’s Economic Empowerment through Aquaculture
- Engendering digital connectivity: The role of women in designing gender-inclusive use cases (Part 2)
- Engendering digital connectivity: Is women’s exclusion in design the missing piece to gender digital inclusion? (Part 1)
- Why are women entrepreneurs seeking mentors?
- Fishing for change: How a policy initiative in India’s Bihar state shows pathways to women’s economic empowerment and climate change adaptation
- Track the Money: a Gendered Account of the Financial Life of Microbusiness Owners Across Asia and Africa
- Decoding government support to women entrepreneurs in India
- Grassroots women leaders transforming lives
- Job losses, business closure — Covid hit female entrepreneurs. Here’s how to support them
- Caregiving, the hidden engine of the economy
- Women Digital Ambassadors: Drivers of financial inclusion in rural areas of Indonesia
- Choice of Channel: Understanding how LMI women select a channel to conduct financial transactions
- Women and DFS
- A tale of the “other” workers: An observation on home-based women workers in Indonesia
- RBIH whitepaper: Gender and finance in India
- Women’s agent network—the missing link in India’s financial inclusion story: A supply-side perspective
- Facilitating cottage, micro, small, and medium enterprises during the pandemic
Latest publications:
- Strengthening the care economy: Benefits for developing countries
- Mentorship for Women Entrepreneurs – A highway to growth
- Women and credit
- Women risk and consumer protection in online leading platforms in Indonesia
- Bridging the care deficit
- Digital gender equality strives to connect half the world to the internet
- Women Digital Ambassador: Linking agents to cooperatives for parity in financial inclusion
- Delivering tailored digital business training in rural Indonesia through Women Digital Ambassador: What we learned so far
- Unpacking the ground realities—what are we beginning to learn about women-owned businesses in Bangladesh?
- Closing the digital gender divide: What’s next for the digital economy?
- Women Digital Ambassadors: Drivers of financial inclusion in rural areas of Indonesia
- The ‘other’ workers’ tale: Women home-based workers in Indonesia
- Women’s Cooperatives: Digital Financial Inclusion Catalysts
Latest events:
- G20 Ministerial Conference on Women’s Empowerment
- Perspective: Empowering Women Digitally
- 13th Asia-Pacific Financial Inclusion Forum: Policy approaches to support Green Financing of Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises
- Women In Enterprises Impediments in the Marketplace
- Accelerating Care Economy in India
- Building Bridges: Gender Equality Event on International Women’s Day
- Barbershop event at UNESCO
- Is financial equality for women just a dream in broad daylight?
