Existing Guidance: Supply-side Gender-Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion, CGAP[1]
Summary: Report examining options for collecting S-GDD, challenges and lessons from examples in the financial sector, and opportunities for future innovation. Includes a list of recommended indicators.
Audience: Policymakers and DFSPs
Existing Guidance: Building a National Gender Data Dashboard, Financial Alliance for Women[2]
Summary: Strategic roadmap for collecting and publishing financial sector S-GDD from planning to launch to refining.
Audience: Policymakers
Existing Guidance: Gender-disaggregated data mapping tool, UNCDF[3]
Summary: Toolkit offering guidance on assessing an organization’s current GDD collection approach and opportunities for improvement.
Audience: Policymakers and DFSPs
Existing Guidance: Collecting and Using Banking Data on Women Businesses: A How-To Guide for Financial Institutions, Financial Alliance for Women[4]
Summary: Toolkit offering insights on collecting GDD with a focus on unlocking opportunities in the credit market, although approaches are applicable to other DFSP products.
Audience: DFSPs
Existing Guidance: Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion: Guidelines to Adopt a Gender Perspective in Financial Institutions, CGAP[5]
Summary: Report demonstrating strategies for data usage to drive change at DFSP product level, also providing guidance on types of data and examples of targets that can be set as well as market examples.
Audience: DFSPs
[1] Tatiana Alonso and Diana Dezso, “Supply-Side Gender-Disaggregated Data for Advancing Financial Inclusion,” CGAP, February 2024, https://www.cgap.org/sites/default/files/publications/S-GDD%20Data_Final.pdf.
[2] “Building a National Gender Data Dashboard,” Financial Alliance for Women, March 29, 2025, https://fafw-s3.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/InBrief-Dashboards-Final.pdf.
[3] “Gender Disaggregated Data Mapping Tool,” UNCDF, July 2024, https://policyaccelerator.uncdf.org/all/gdd-mapping-tool.
[4] “Collecting and Using Banking Data on Women Businesses: A How-To Guide for Financial Institutions,” Financial Alliance for Women, accessed August 26, 2025. https://fafw-s3.s3.ca-central-1.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/WMSME-How-To-Final.pdf.
[5] “Advancing Women’s Financial Inclusion: Guidelines to Adopt a Gender Perspective in Financial Institutions,” CGAP, May 2025, ttps://www.cgap.org/sites/default/files/publications/Documento_Advancing%20Women%E2%80%99s%20Financial%20Inclusion_Final.pdf.