WE Finance Code

🌍#CountdownToKigali: New WMSME Data Mapping Guidelines🚨 Produced in partnership with ConsumerCentriX, this new guide provides a streamlined approach to researching, synthesizing, and visualizing Women-owned, Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (WMSME) data. By mapping who collects, stores, and uses this data within a #WEFinanceCode country, implementing partners, #FSPs, regulators, etc. will gain meaningful insights and a clear overview of the #WMSME data landscape, enabling informed decision-making with confidence. ➡️ Download the guide to visualizing your #dataflow and identifying key data gaps and priority actions here: https://lnkd.in/eHgvNFQg

🌍#CountdownToKigali: Business Case Tool Now Available⚠️ The #WeFinanceCode is a systems change initiative designed to build more fair and resilient economies through accelerating financing to #womenentrepreneurs and closing the $1.7 trillion #financegap. Why are FSPs and governments racing to join the Code? As sex-disaggregated data (#SDD) becomes available, more and more attention is being paid to #WSMEs as viable and profitable customer segments - the last untapped market, brimming with potential. ➡️ Download this tool to estimate the potential profitability of providing #financialservices for WSMEs in each Code market: https://lnkd.in/eJsdsxRN

🚨 New Implementation Tool Release 🚨 🌍#CountdownToKigali This #HowTo guide - made in collaboration with the Financial Alliance for Women - lays out a five-step process to sex-disaggregate MSME customer data: 1.) 🔎 Assess needs and set definitions 2.) 🗺️ Plan for #WMSME data collection 3.) ⛓️ Integrate systems and processes 4.) 🕸️Capture data 5.) 📈Analyze and use data, closing market gaps Tapping into the WMSME market is a strategy of many FSPs and governments around the world to drive sustainable growth, improve market resilience, and reduce poverty - but sex-disaggregated data (#SDD) is needed to guide their actions to achieve their development goals. ➡️ Check out the WMSME How-To Guide here: https://lnkd.in/eF_zvfbN

Signing the WE Finance Code is just the beginning. Taking action is where the impact happens. At the WE Finance Code Study Tour in Kigali, the panel Incentivizing Impact will dive into how Central Banks, development finance institutions, and FSP leaders are motivating real implementation of the Code—especially in serving WMSMEs. This session will spotlight innovative incentives—financial, regulatory, and market-driven—that are helping turn commitment into results. Key themes include: ✔️ The power of incentives to drive systemic change ✔️ How Central Banks are setting the pace for national action ✔️ Success stories in enabling real progress for WMSMEs 💡 Moderated by: Wendy Teleki from Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) within the The World Bank 🎤 Speakers: Faria Shahid from HBL Bank in Pakistan Jessica Schnabel from IFC - International Finance Corporation Khaled Bassiouny from the Central Bank of Egypt Lukania Geraldine Makunda from FSD Kenya From high-level strategy to on-the-ground results, this panel is all about unlocking what works to turn intention into impact. #WEFinanceCode #WomenEntrepreneursFinanceInitiative #WeFi #WEFinanceCodeStudyTour  Financial Alliance for Women #ChampionTheFemaleEconomy #AllianceSummit2025 #WomensFinancialInclusion #IncentivizingChange #WMSMEs

What makes a WE Finance Code National Coalition truly effective? At the upcoming 2025 WE Finance Code Study Tour in Kigali, Rwanda, our expert panel will explore this vital question: Optimizing National Coalition Effectiveness. Led by moderator Inez Murray from the Financial Alliance for Women, this panel segment brings together leaders who are driving collective action and impact across their national ecosystems.   🌍 Panelists will share first-hand insights on: 🔹 Mobilizing diverse stakeholders 🔹 Building coalition structures that last 🔹 Driving coordinated, gender-inclusive strategies 🔹 Turning collaboration into tangible implementation progress 🎤 Featuring: ▪️ Dalma Hernandez Florián Hernandez, from the Bankers Association of the Dominican Republic Asociación de Bancos Múltiples de la República Dominicana ▪️ Fierzë Bajgora from the Central Bank of the Republic of Kosova ▪️ Sophia Abu from the Central Bank of Nigeria ▪️ Valence Kimenyi from the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) This Panel will give an inside look at how National Coalitions are being transformed into powerful engines for WE Finance Code implementation. We will learn from the leaders making it happen! 🙌 #WEFinanceCode #WomenEntrepreneursFinanceInitiative #WeFi #WEFinanceCodeStudyTour  #FinancialAllianceforWomen #ChampionTheFemaleEconomy #AllianceSummit2025 #WomensFinancialInclusion #NationalCoalitions

🌍 Countdown to Kigali! On May 30, the WE Finance Code Community of Champions from 30+ countries will gather in Kigali, Rwanda for the unforgettable in-person Study Tour—a full day of action-oriented learning, collaboration, and innovation. This isn’t just another event—it’s a milestone moment in our global journey to implement the WE Finance Code and accelerate women’s financial inclusion. 🔍 Sneak Peek of What’s in Store: ✅ Strengthening national coalitions for long-term impact ✅ Strategies to attract, onboard, and retain committed FSPs ✅ Incentivizing meaningful Code implementation ✅ Exploring emerging global practices in gender data collection ✅ Interactive tool sessions for practical learning ✅ Inspiring closing session to fuel next steps and collective actions 🙌 Get ready to drive your WE Finance Code implementation from Plan to Action! 📍 #WEFinanceCode #CommunityofChampions – We will see you soon! Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi), Financial Alliance for Women #WEFinanceCode #WomenEntrepreneursFinanceInitiative #WeFi #WEFinanceCodeStudyTour  #FinancialAllianceforWomen #ChampionTheFemaleEconomy #AllianceSummit2025 #WomensFinancialInclusion #FinancialInclusion #WomenEntrepreneurs #GlobalLearning #GlobalImpact

At last week's EBRD Annual Meeting and Business Forum in London, Governor of the Central Bank of #Montenegro (Centralna banka Crne Gore) Irena Radovic met with EBRD President Odile Reno-Basso about their partnership in implementing the #WEFinanceCode. She also presented about the Code and other CBCG initiatives on a panel entitled, "Women's Capital, the Future of Us All: Towards More Inclusive Financial Systems for #WomenEntrepreneurs." ⬇️ Learn more below. . . . . https://lnkd.in/ea6mYwK4

#WEFinanceCode global signatory CARE just released their baseline findings from #StriveWomen, a program supported by Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth, and focused on improving the financial health of #womenentrepreneurs. What is financial health? To accurately assess the state of women's businesses and overall wellbeing, it’s essential to look beyond profits and take a more holistic view of their financial health —one that considers their financial, personal, and business lives together. Learn more ⬇️

📺 Watch below as Wendy Teleki, Head of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Initiative (We-Fi) Secretariat, explains the #WEFinanceCode's system of reinforcing financial incentives. The structure involves all levels of support from development finance institutions to central banks and regulators, all aligned with a common cause to reduce #financegaps for #womenentrepreneurs. 🙏 Many thanks to our implementing partners at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and Islamic Development Bank (IsDB) for featuring the Code at this year's Forum on Expanding Women’s Participation in the Economy.

🚨 Just Released: Note on Definitions for Implementers of the #WEFinanceCode🚨 Commonly cited as a major barrier to collecting sex-disaggregated data (#SDD), deciding on a clear definition of #WSMEs is a crucial first step in the journey towards supporting women-led businesses. The establishment of a clear definition for WSMEs is necessary in order to collect SDD systematically and use it effectively to support the design and implementation of initiatives aimed at fostering the growth and sustainability of women-led enterprises.  ➡️ Read more about standardizing definitions to better support #womenentrepreneurs here: https://lnkd.in/ea6hgnSr 📐🧰 Interested in learning about all the tools available to support We Finance Code implementation in your country? Check out our new Resources Page with the latest releases: https://lnkd.in/efrFkj9G