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Join CGAP and FinEquity for a World Bank Group Gender Equality and Development +10: Accelerate Equality webinar, Tackling the Root Causes of Women's Financial Exclusion
April 21, 2022 | 9 - 10 a.m. EST
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Restrictive gender norms are often the root cause of persistent gender inequality in the financial market system and ignoring them can limit the effectiveness and impact of financial inclusion interventions.
Any efforts to create gender equitable financial market systems that can increase women’s financial inclusion and facilitate women’s economic empowerment need to start with an understanding of how gender norms shape the behavior of all system actors and then, based on this understanding, design interventions that seek behavior change at multiple levels – including at the community and household level, with FSPs, support service providers and policymakers.
CGAP recently published “Addressing Gender Norms in Financial Inclusion: Designing for Impact” which provides guidance to funders and facilitators on design and implementation of interventions that increase women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment by taking gender norms into account.
In this webinar, hosted by CGAP and FinEquity as part of the World Bank Group's Gender Equality and Development +10: Accelerate Equality initiative, funders and facilitators will share how they diagnose gender norms that impact women’s financial inclusion and economic empowerment in specific country contexts, and how they use these insights to shape their strategies to create a more gender-equitable financial system.
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This event is part of the World Bank Group’s yearlong Gender Equality and Development +10: Accelerate Equality initiative, which explores the important progress made and lessons learned over the last 10 years in closing gender gaps and promoting girl's and women's empowerment and drives for transformative change in the future.
It provides an opportunity to showcase successes, learn, and develop ideas and further momentum for the future of gender equality and women’s leadership, while taking stock of remaining challenges and strengthening partnerships in the quest to #AccelerateEquality.
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Sophie Sirtaine | CGAP
Sophie Sirtaine, a Belgian national, is CGAP’s CEO. She is responsible for leading the CGAP operational team to develop, resource, and deliver CGAP’s 5-year strategy. She is also a member of CGAP’s Executive Committee. With over twenty years of experience in the World Bank, Sophie has held various positions including as Director of Strategy and Operations in the Independent Evaluation Group of the World Bank Group from 2016-2021 and as country director for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2013-2016. She also worked in South Asia, and the Europe and Central Asia regions; the Corporate Secretariat; and the Operations, Policy and Country Services Vice Presidency of the World Bank Group. Among others, she led the World Bank’s banking sector crisis response in several EU countries during the 2008-2009 global financial crisis. Sophie also worked in London in investment banking at JP Morgan and as an infrastructure economist for Halcrow Fox and Associates prior to joining the World Bank
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Antonique Koning | CGAP
Antonique Koning has more than 20 years of experience in financial inclusion and serves as CGAP’s Gender Lead. Antonique is co-author of CGAP’s Technical Guide on Addressing Gender Norms, Designing for Impact. Antonique has expertise in consumer protection and responsible finance, customer empowerment and is a contributor to CGAP’s Customer Centric Guide. Before joining CGAP in 2004, she gained hands-on experience developing and implementing microcredit programs in El Salvador and working with savings banks globally. Antonique has a Master’s degree in International Trade Management and Policy from the University of Birmingham and a Master’s degree in Applied Economics from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.
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Hajnalka Petricsn | FAO
Hajnalka is a Programme Officer (Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment) at FAO and the Global Coordinator of the United Nations Rome-based Agencies (RBAs)-European Union (EU) Joint Programme on Gender Transformative Approaches for Food Security and Nutrition, funded by the European Union. Previously, in her role as Gender and Development Officer, she led FAO’s work on gender-responsive rural advisory services as well as CEDAW implementation and related policy assistance., Hajnalka has worked as Rural Development and Gender Technical Officer in the FAO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia (REU). She holds a PhD in International Cooperation and Sustainable Development Policies and an MA in Political Science from the University of Bologna. Hajnalka was a visiting researcher at the Rural Sociology Group of the Wageningen University and Research Centre.
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Klaus Prochaska | GIZ
Klaus Prochaska is Head of Financial Systems Development at GIZ. He has worked on financial sector development for fifteen years focusing on financial inclusion, digital financial services, financial sector policy, and sustainable finance. He previously held positions with CGAP, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and Telenor. Klaus has lived in Austria, Germany, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia and the United States. He holds a law degree from the University of Vienna and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
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Ankita Singh | UNCDF
Ankita is a research and learning practitioner at UNCDF with a focus on building narratives driven by evidence and storytelling. Through context-led research, she unboxes opportunities to design solutions that work for low-income populations. Over the last 10 years, she has engaged extensively in exploratory and evaluative research on livelihood, financial health, natural resource management, and gendered social norms with women, adolescents and smallholder farmers.
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