Insights
“Hey Sister!” now available in French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili
Our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” digital financial literacy campaign continues to grow! Just like all of our other content, these audio episodes are available for download, use and adaptation by anyone, anywhere.
New digital financial literacy lessons available — and still open source
We have produced 15 new episodes of our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” digital financial literacy campaign. Grab a phone, listen in, read our scripts, make them your own! Like our first 10 lessons, the new scripts and recordings follow our three sisters, Josephine, Myriam, and Annette, as they continue their journey to safely using their mobile phones.
Facilitator spotlight: Christiana Zaglago empowers Ghanaian sisters
In the Volta Region of Ghana, Christiana Zaglago is training women from Mafi to use mobile money and improve their digital skills, using our USAID-funded Hey Sister! curriculum.
What you’re listening to: Our most popular digital financial literacy lessons
Around the world, we are focused on closing the gender gap in accessing digital technology and building women’s digital skills and digital financial literacy. Read on to learn about our most popular lessons.
‘Let’s keep the gender lens on’
We know the pandemic is disproportionately impacting women and will only widen the gender-poverty gap. As we celebrate International Women’s Day this week, we applaud the champions who are driving the conversation to make equity a priority, putting gender at the center of response efforts.
Spotlight on COMSIP in Malawi: “Hey Sister!” builds women’s digital financial literacy
In Malawi, more than 11,000 women have used our “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!” lessons to build their digital financial literacy, and our partner COMSIP Cooperative Union Limited has helped us promote the series and train nearly 3,000 Malawians with the campaign.
Announcing “Hey Sister! Show Me the Mobile Money!’
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic and the need to go cashless while observing social distancing restrictions, SIA, with funding from USAID and the Women’s Global Development and Prosperity (W-GDP) Initiative, has launched a digital financial literacy campaign to increase women’s ability to access and use mobile money services.
Challenging the myths around women’s financial inclusion
Earlier this month, we joined FinEquity and Women’s World Banking for a webinar exploring common myths around women’s digital financial inclusion. Hosted as part of CFI’s Financial Inclusion Week, this discussion tested assumptions, highlighted the contextual differences and nuances that exist across half of the world’s population, and considered the perils of stereotyping this population when it comes to access and use of financial services.