The Umbrella Facility for Gender Equality’s (UFGE) 2022 Annual Report provides a retrospective of its achievements and impact since 2012, marking the UFGE’s ten-year anniversary. Since its inception, the...
Africa is the only region where women are more likely to be entrepreneurs than men; yet, on average, female-owned businesses in this region earn 30 percent less than male-owned businesses. There are several...
In 2012 the World Bank Group (WBG) established the umbrella facility for gender equality (UFGE), a multi-donor trust fund dedicated to advancing gender equality and women’s empowerment through experimentation...
Utilities attempting to extend service to low-income settlements are frequently trapped in a vicious circle: poor cost recovery contributes to inadequate service provision and this in turn fuels customer...