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Expert Leaders Group Convening.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The convening began with opening remarks from ELG leader Dr Tukiya Kankasa-Mabula. She explained that having all stakeholders present was a way to move global interventions to local. The session was more about peer learning than peer learning rubberstamping the ELG plan. Dr Tukiya’s introductory message was followed by the Expert Leaders Group on Women’s Financial Inclusion 3-year work plan presented by GMT’s Director of Programmes, Dr Shungu Gwarinda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0“The goal of the ELG is to influence transformative policy actions that promote opportunities to advance the growth of women’s businesses as a pillar of economic recovery and reconstruction from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa, ” echoed Dr. Shungu Gwarinda.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The agenda of the ELG is to push for bold actions to advance:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Action pillars of the ELG<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Participants also weighed in on ELG’s three-year plan. Among the suggestions shared were the need to have and use Gender-disaggregated data to assess the situation and develop appropriate, evidence-based responses and policies. In addition, the need to explore an insurance perspective as most times focus on access to finance and insurance isn’t part of the conversation, and the deterrent is unawareness and education. There was also the subject of using mobile money for building a credit\/transactional history that can be used with collateral to get financing.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Some of the participants during the Expert Leaders Group Convening.<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The meeting ended with a presentation of the Women’s Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy: Regional Analysis of COVID-19 Economic Responses Study. It had several key insights including:<\/span><\/p>\n Opportunities exist to deepen and accelerate financial inclusion through digital […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[292,4,95],"tags":[281,549,105,142,550,551],"class_list":["post-11194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-featured","category-womens-economic-and-social-advancement-highlight","tag-expert-leaders-group","tag-network-of-african-businesswomen","tag-new-faces-new-voices","tag-wesa","tag-women-in-finance","tag-womens-financial-inclusion"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194","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=11194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.gbstudio.co.za\/gmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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