Deadline: 30-Apr-23
The Women’s World Banking is pleased to announce the second call for applications from civil society organizations in the Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Indonesia Coalition.
Funding Information
- Grants will be disbursed in amounts of USD $10,000-$20,000 and will be announced by June 2023. The grant must be used to support your advocacy efforts for women’s digital financial inclusion and used within six months of disbursement. It can be used to fund staff time and / or external resources required for your work.
What they Are Advocating For?
- Digital financial products, services, and policies to meet the specific needs of women so they can start, lead, grow and own MSMEs.
- Access to Technology — Ensure Every Woman Entrepreneur Owns a Smart Phone to Help Her Business, Leverage Technology, and Access Financial Services
- Develop clear and transparent pricing for credit and design solutions to make smart phones more user-friendly and affordable for women micro-entrepreneurs (private sectors)
- Implement and support initiatives to help reduce the price of devices for women entrepreneurs (such as innovative pricing strategies and subsidies and encourage the development of an ecosystem of services that are user-friendly and meet the needs of women (policymakers)
- Raise awareness for the cost and other barriers for women micro-entrepreneurs’ smart phone ownership and use, and partner with the private sector and policymakers to promote affordable and user-friendly handsets (civil-society organizations/csos)
- Access to Skills — Ensure Every Woman Entrepreneur Has Access to Education and Initiatives That Increase Her Confidence and Digital Financial Capabilities
- Implement digital skills and financial literacy programs targeted at women who lead and own micro-businesses (policymakers)
- Integrate digital and financial capabilities trainings into products and services for women msmes (private sector)
- Facilitate digital financial literacy trainings for women and leverage trusted local community and peer networks to deliver them (csos)
- Access to Digital Financial Services — Ensure That Every Woman Entrepreneur Can Trust and Leverage Digital Financial Services by Designing Protection Mechanisms That Address Consumer Risks
- Track, analyze, and share gender-disaggregated complaints to improve every woman entrepreneur’s financial journey (private sector)
- Strengthen supervision for financial consumer protection by including the voices of women entrepreneurs in policy and regulatory design (policymakers)
- Drive awareness campaigns on risks faced by women entrepreneurs and how to activate recourse mechanisms that reach them (csos)
- Establish Data Collection About Women Entrepreneurs — Ensure That Every Women Entrepreneur is Seen, Recognized, and Understood at Both the Local and Global Level Through Data Collection and Measurement Methodology
- Establish a baseline and new benchmarking approach for both governments and the financial sector through the development of data collection and measurement methodology efforts to track wdfi progress, develop leading indicators based on both global and local existing data (policymakers, funders)
- Utilize data to understand their customer base, and the reasons why women entrepreneurs are disproportionately digitally and financially included (financial service providers/fsps)
- Commission demand-side surveys on the needs of women entrepreneurs to access and use digital financial services and share findings with other stakeholders (fsps)
- Raise awareness on the lack of data on women entrepreneurs’ access and use of digital financial services, and advocate for stakeholders to take action to address this gap (csos, non-profit organizations/ngos, funders)
- Access to Technology — Ensure Every Woman Entrepreneur Owns a Smart Phone to Help Her Business, Leverage Technology, and Access Financial Services
Eligibility Criteria
- Grants should be used to support your organization’s advocacy efforts for women’s digital financial inclusion. Grants can be used for staff time and external resources necessary for the implementation of your proposal. Grants must be used within 6 months of disbursement.
- Civil society organizations should be headquartered in Indonesia and involved with the Indonesian Coalition for Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion.
For more information, visit Women’s World Banking.