Making Finance Work for Ladies for 45 Years | Dr. Jennifer Riria

To rejoice Ladies’s World Banking’s forty fifth anniversary, we’re showcasing the voices of people from world wide who’ve formed and touched Ladies’s World Banking journey. These are tales from throughout Ladies’s World Banking’s attain from the ladies we serve and our clients, to allies and girls in management who’ve contributed to ladies’s financial empowerment and monetary inclusion.

Meet Dr. Jennifer Riria, the President and CEO of Echo Community and one in every of Africa’s main ladies entrepreneurs. She is distinguished as a microfinance banker and practitioner, researcher and gender specialist. She has served in lots of management roles for which she has been acknowledged regionally and internationally. In 2013 she was awarded the Ernst & Younger (EY) Entrepreneur of the 12 months, East Africa 2013, and subsequently, the EY Entrepreneur of the Yr Award 2014, at which level she was admitted to EY’s International Corridor of Fame. 

Few ladies within the microfinance world are as recognizable as Jennifer. If there may be one girl that’s proof of the ability of particular person entrepreneurs to make a distinction, it’s her. She has singlehandedly reworked the microfinance business in her native Kenya with a view to tangibly enhance the lives of practically 1 million ladies. Due to her efforts, lots of of 1000’s of Kenyan ladies have first-time entry to finance, beforehand not out there to them, and in consequence, are as we speak empowered to dwell their lives and fulfill their very own potential and desires.  

In episode 10 of The Making Finance Work for Ladies Podcast, Jennifer delves into the intersection of local weather change and digital monetary inclusion with a distinguished African ladies’s proper advocate. Her journey supplies distinctive insights into the pressing want for modern options to fight local weather change whereas fostering monetary inclusion, particularly for ladies. The initiatives mentioned will unveil the essential position of digital monetary inclusion in empowering communities affected by local weather change, notably ladies.

Be part of us as we discover the transformative potential of climate-conscious finance and the indispensable position of ladies like our visitor in shaping a extra resilient and equitable future for all.  

Ladies’s World Banking is devoted to financial empowerment by way of monetary inclusion for the practically one billion ladies within the world with no or restricted entry to formal monetary providers. Utilizing our subtle market and shopper analysis, we flip insights into actual motion to design and advocate for coverage engagement, digital monetary options, office management applications, and gender lens investing.

As a part of our present technique, we’ve helped present 37 million ladies in rising markets – focusing on 100 million by 2027 – entry and use of monetary merchandise and providers which can be reworking ladies’s lives, households, companies and communities, and driving inclusive development globally.

Be part of Jennifer and assist us attain the practically billion ladies nonetheless excluded from the formal monetary system. Donate now.