FinEquity Tools Clinic: Using Financial Diaries to Develop Products for Women 

This Tools Clinic was the next workshop in a series on Gender Data and Analysis. It built on earlier FinEquity workshops - Using Financial Diaries to Analyze the Women's Market (April 2023) and Understanding the Women's Market Through Gender Data and Analysis (December 2022) - and the FinEquity Gender Data and Analysis Knowledge Guide.
During the April Tools Workshop, MicroSave Consulting (MSC) and L-IFT presented their approach to financial diaries research, what they learned, the challenges faced, and most importantly, how they used these insights. In small groups, participants had a chance to discuss the research conducted by MSC and L-IFT in more detail, as well as to hear about FINBIT, a technology to support financial diaries research.
This Tools Clinic for financial service providers (FSPs) went a step further to examine how FSPs can use financial diaries research to design and improve product offerings. L-IFT facilitators walked through case studies from Nigeria (LAPO) and Myanmar (BRAC) and demonstrated how to interpret data from financial diaries and discussed how it was used to develop products for the women’s market. Participants learned how FINBIT supports financial diaries research by collecting and analyzing financial and livelihood data. We also discussed data ownership, challenges that FSPs may have in collecting and analyzing data, as well as why some products do not come to fruition.
Note: This practical clinic was limited to a small number of FSPs in order to have more interaction with the facilitators.
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Speakers:
Haimanot Yibeltal | Technology Manager, L-IFT
Frehiwot Sinishaw | Program Officer, L-IFT
John Kamau | Data Lead, L-IFT
Mhlalisi Ncube | Programme Manager, L-IFT BV
Theresa Thin | Programme Manager, L-IFT (Myanmar)
Dorcas Thorpe | Corporate Planning Team Lead, LAPO MfB
Md. Sazaduzzaman | Managing Director and Acting Country Representative, BRAC Myanmar
Jenny Morgan | Impact Pathways Thematic Lead, FinEquity
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