Creating Opportunities for Women

IFC's Gender Program welcomes you to its twentieth quarterly newsletter designed to keep businesswomen in touch with key events, relevant research and, most importantly, each other! We provide brief descriptions of news, events, and online resources that will involve, inspire and inform you. Wherever possible and appropriate, we provide a link for further detail.

In this issue you will find news on IFC and World Bank Group activities, including the IFC-facilitated study tour for African banks to Australia's 2nd largest bank by assets to exchange experiences on delivering financial services to women entrepreneurs; global news reports such as the inauguration of Africa's first women bank in Tanzania; upcoming events around the world which includes the Global Banking Alliance for Women (GBA) Summit to be held in Singapore in October, and Resources such as the report by the Heinrich Böll Foundation on gender and environmental financing mechanisms. This quarter's spotlight is on NBS Malawi, one of Malawi's largest banks by asset size, and its women's program.