Beyond access : exploring gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion

Access to financial products and services can be a key enabler to enhancing women’s economic empowerment and livelihoods. This scoping paper explores integration of gender-transformative approaches to financial inclusion research and practice. It defines gender-transformative financial inclusion both as a process and as an outcome. It points to current knowledge gaps, and suggests areas for further research. For instance, “You can put all the financial inclusion you want in a woman’s life. But if we don’t reform constraints like women’s access to land, nothing changes.