How well is my scheme serving women users?
Whether you have an Inclusive Instant Payment System in market or are just getting started, use this tool to discover how your design and implementation choices align with women’s varied needs. This short exercise will help you make an action plan for growth. Learn about what you’re already doing well and make a plan to do even better.
Designing for women isn’t just the inclusive choice, it’s the strategic choice.
Women matter for your IPS
Drive volumes and attract new users with common sense design choices.
Design choices matter for women
Isn’t infrastructure gender neutral? Nope.
The design choices you’re already making at the scheme level can improve outcomes for women users.
How this Toolkit can help you
Technology
Understand how choices in your technical architecture can optimize for women’s inclusion.
Business
Make strategic choices about scheme governance and rules to promote women’s continued use of the system.
Policy
Contextualize your Inclusive IPS within an enabling regulatory environment that promotes inclusion and competition.
Getting started with the Toolkit
Learn or refresh yourself & your team on the links between women’s inclusion and Inclusive Instant Payments
Not sure where to start? Download our two foundational briefs to understand core concepts, generate internal alignment, and build your case for inclusive design choices.
“Why” Paper
A short report that explains why gender-intentional IPS design decisions matter for the success of an Inclusive IPS scheme and for the benefit of all end users.
The Level One Principles
If you are new to L1P, learn more about our Principles for building an Inclusive IPS.
Play and plan within this informal self-assessment environment
Understand how certain design choices you’ve made or plan to make, can influence women’s participation in your system.
“Designing for Women” Inclusive IPS Alignment Tool
Understand how different design choices may improve your scheme’s ability to drive volumes from women users. Save a roadmap you can follow to improve outcomes.
Browse L1P Guidance by Practice area
Follow the link to Select a Practice for a pre-filtered list of L1P Practices that are particularly important for women’s inclusion. From this list of good practices, click each one for a rationale of why that practice matters for women and how to implement the design well.
Good Practices for Women’s Inclusion
Explore a set of L1P Practices that are especially critical for women’s inclusion (and understand why!)
Learn how through:
- Market Illustrations: Learn from design choices in action.
- Design Notes: Dig into how to implement each of the practices.
- Practical Tools: Companion tools that help you put Guidance into action.
Use results from continued work and data analysis to refine your design.
Incorporate ongoing feedback, lessons from other markets, and deeper insights into your next iteration. Strengthen your design through evidence-based adjustments.