For women and girls, the digital revolution represents one of the biggest opportunities and threats to gender equality. In recognition of this critical dichotomy, the UNSG Task Force on Digital Financing for the SDGs has selected gender as one of the main themes of its work. This case study from Ethiopia provides a basis to review the barriers, risks and opportunities related to gender and the accessibility and utilization of digital finance and help identify pathways that could be leveraged for potential impactful investment returns for women.
Impact / Outcome
The digitalization of finance gives access to more sex-disaggregated data and builds a compelling business
case for investing with a gender lens. The trend is growing and 87 funds deploying capital with a gender lens
have been identified in 2018, compared to 58 in 2017.
Funding sources
Fully public
Key Metrics
Expanding access to mobile money accounts; Expanding use of mobile money accounts for government payments and remittance; Expanding use of mobile money account for payments, loans and savings
Operating model
Fully publicYear published
01 September 2019