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Women at the Center: How FINCA Advances Women's Economic Empowerment Across the Impact Ecosystem

Drawing on frontline experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and insights from FINCA’s innovation lab, the panelists will share practical lessons on designing products, delivery models, and investment strategies that strengthen women’s financial resilience and support women-led businesses.

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Measuring Women’s Economic Empowerment: Implications for Program Design and Evaluation

This policy brief shares practical lessons from customer research on women’s saving behavior in Uganda, examining how different empowerment indicators perform in capturing women’s financial behaviors, decisionmaking, and outcomes.

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Entrepreneurs Across Africa Win $400,000 in Catalytic Funding to Tackle Poverty

2025 FINCA Ventures Prize champions innovation in fintech for financial inclusion and climate-smart agriculture.

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FINCA Partners With Thought Machine to Launch Next-Generation Operating Platform to Accelerate Financial Inclusion in Africa

As a result of this partnership, FINCA will be able to deliver flexible, integrated financial products tailored to help low-income customers invest in opportunities, build financial resilience, and access streamlined, automated loan assessments and renewals.

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Applications Now Open for the FINCA Ventures Prize Competition

FINCA is looking to award $400,000 to six African entrepreneurs to help accelerate their innovative business models in creating sustainable solutions to some of the world’s most pressing challenges.  

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Embracing the Difference, Now and Tomorrow

This event features FINCA’s new President and CEO, Andree Simon, and FINCA Board Member Jordan Greenaway in an intimate conversation on the future of financial inclusion and social enterprise for women. Andrée and Jordan will look back on FINCA’s 40 years history supporting female entrepreneurs and discuss how FINCA is evolving to meet today’s challenges and to advance our broader theory of change.

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Remote Coaching to Prevent Dormancy Among Low-Income Savers

Research findings from Uganda sharing results from qualitative interviews with women who report greater sense of trust and relationship with the bank and improved saving behavior as a result of coaching.

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Rebuilding Women’s Financial Health Post-COVID-19

During this webinar, a panel of experts explore the question of how the impact of external shocks on women entrepreneurs and the institutions that serve them can be reduced.

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Global COVID-19 Survey Report: Insights for Financial Inclusion

Findings on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impaired the quality of life of economically disadvantaged populations around the world

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FINCA International Launches Emergency Response Fund for COVID-19

FINCA International mobilized to address the needs of the most vulnerable in the countries where it works, launching the FINCA Emergency Response Fund.