African Women in Governance : Policies and Stakeholder's Participation

Abstract

African Women in Governance: Policies and Stakeholder's Participation presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigate the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality. Despite the importance of financial inclusion in response to the growth and development of the economy; critics have argued that financial inclusion represents regressive policies that have hindered the government from meeting the targeted ideological goals set for each country. The hindrance might be traced to the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, which crashed the global economy. Many countries, especially developing economies, are yet to fully recover and achieve the set goals on financial inclusion for their economies (Prabhakar, 2019: 40). This is reiterated by Langley (2008) and Leyshon et al. (2008: 6), who argue that most developing economies have abandoned financial inclusion and the government has passed the responsibilities to its people. The themes identified will provide guidance on the compilation of state-specific profiles on different national approaches to financial inclusion gender policies. The main objective of this volume is to understand different processes for financial inclusion to gender issues at a national level. And to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learnt between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and hopefully addressed.