Closing the Financial Inclusion Gender Gap During the Crisis and Afterwards

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to disrupt families and economies around the world. The enduring impact on the financial inclusion of women is clear.

Unless urgently addressed, the setbacks are bound to accumulate and form a drag on growth instead of elevating the multi-trillion-dollar opportunities for women’s economic inclusion in developing countries.

This report shows AFI members managed to protect and promote women’s financial inclusion and effectively apply it as part of a crisis response during the pandemic.