Governments and the private sector are responding to the transformative power of digital payments on women. But to realize their full potential, the approach to prioritize women needs an overhaul. Governments and businesses can rebuild stronger after COVID-19 by prioritizing women’s digital financial inclusion.
Today, too often, women suffer from systemic and organizational biases that exclude them economically. Closing the gender gap will require transformational measures that prioritize women and redress their systemic exclusion. Service design needs to be gender-intentional. Women’s voices need to be included at each level of decision-making, and AI needs to be transparently unbiased.
The following principle is a freely sharable road map to lasting change.
RECOMMENDATIONS
All members have an opportunity to use their partnership agreements to prioritize women, such as through:
- gender-disaggregated outreach targets
- conditions demanding preference for women staff and agents
- selection criteria requiring strong, demonstrable experience in women-centric services.
All members can prioritize women by tracking gender-disaggregated data from digital payment partners and ensure a focus in all prospective research for emergent technology such as AI.
Empower women to take control of their data and make informed choices by including their voices, including working with civil society and community groups that are trusted, in national approaches to safeguard data.
IN PRACTICE
