The diagnostic study on \u201cDocumenting Financial Inclusion Best Practices: Experience of 60 Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa and Zambia was undertaken by the Women\u2019s Economic and Social Advancement (WESA) Programme at Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust (GMT) funded by the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF). GMT has played a leading role in amplifying women\u2019s movements, influencing governance, and promoting women\u2019s contributions and leadership in the economic, social and political development of Africa: and advocate for the protection of children\u2019s rights and dignity.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We would like to extend our appreciation to the African Women\u2019s Development Fund (AWDF) for supporting the Gra\u00e7a Machel Trust (GMT) with the grant to implement the project \u201cDocumenting Financial Inclusion Best Practices: Experience of 60 Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa and Zambia\u201d that is driven by the Women\u2019s Economic and Social Advancement Programme (WESA) at the Trust.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n We would like to thank the women entrepreneurs from the Women Creating Wealth (WCW) Programme who have agreed to participate in the study by availing their time to share their experiences, challenges, successes and hopes in the survey and interview sessions. We would also like to thank representatives from various financial institutions who have given us their time to share insights and knowledge to enrich this study. We trust that the information shared in this study will contribute towards identifying best and emerging practices and existing gaps that will enable the Trust to develop evidence-based financial inclusion advocacy at country, regional and continental levels to promote gender-responsive strategies that are inclusive and place women at the forefront.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, we would like to thank the WESA team and Women Creating Wealth (WCW) team for ensuring that this study is carried out successfully.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n [gview file="https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Financial-Inclusion_Final-Report-_FINAL.edited-1.pdf%22]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The diagnostic study on \u201cDocumenting Financial Inclusion Best Practices: Experience […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5117,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,112,95],"tags":[114,115,116,117],"class_list":["post-11192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-publications","category-womens-economic-and-social-advancement-highlight","tag-african-womens-development-fund-awdf","tag-financial-inclusion-report","tag-graca-machel-trust-gmt","tag-women-creating-wealth-wcw-programme"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}