Women Empowerment in Micro Enterprise and Micro Finance

Funding for micro-finance programmes is set to increase further in the years to come, also with the intention to promote gender policies. The access to micro-finance services (credit, savings, insurance and pensions) is still highly unequal between men and women. Considerable advances were made in the 1990s in the design of NGO-managed programmes and poverty-targeted banks to increase women’s…