Reaching and empowering women - Genfinance

Boxes
1 Mainstreaming gender: Elements of a strategy in minimalist rural
microfinance institutions 17
2 Organizational mainstreaming: Some key strategies for financially
sustainable organizations 18
3 Possible gender indicators for insertion into social performance management 20
4 Increasing women’s access to financial services: Early recommendations 23
5 Innovation in loan products 26
6 Savings products 29
7 Insurance programmes for women 31
8 Financial literacy 35
9 Financial action learning system 36
10 Mainstreaming empowerment in core activities 39
11 Innovations in integrating financial and non-financial services 40
12 Savings-and-credit groups: Advantages and disadvantages for women 43
13 Participation and empowerment through microfinance groups 46
14 Supporting women’s property rights in microfinance programmes 48
15 Women’s political participation through microfinance groups 50
16 Measures to promote an enabling environment for gender mainstreaming 53
17 Framework for gender equitable consumer protection 54
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