Building Gender-inclusive Entrepreneurial Ecosystems through the Implementation of the WE Finance Code Across the Globe

For the last two years, ConsumerCentriX has been supporting the implementation of the Women Entrepreneurs Finance Code, working with financial sector regulators, financial service providers, and other key stakeholders to implement frameworks that strengthen accountability and support women‑led enterprises across markets. Across all engagements, our support remained focused on strengthening gender-disaggregated data systems, promoting collaboration among public and private financial sector ecosystem players, and building the business case for serving women-led enterprises as a strategic growth market rather than a social niche.

Central Asia

In Central Asia, we supported the expansion of the WE Finance Code across Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Mongolia, where new coalitions of regulators and financial institutions committed to advancing gender data practices. Uzbekistan marked its first anniversary since its launch by showcasing measurable progress through stronger institutional partnerships, more consistent data quality, and an expanding coalition of financial institutions now integrating gender data into their reporting frameworks. As part of this regional momentum, financial institutions from Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Mongolia came together in Samarkand for a training organized by ConsumerCentriX in partnership with the Financial Alliance for Women and IPC, and with funding from the EBRD. The sessions helped institutions strengthen their strategies for serving women-led MSMEs and brought together representatives from WE Finance Code coalitions across the region. ConsumerCentriX shared the WE Finance Code data journey and insights from our work with financial institutions in Central Asia, grounding the discussions in real market experience. The training marked an important step in helping institutions move from commitment to implementation, particularly in how they use data, develop value propositions, and align internal processes to better meet the needs of women entrepreneurs.

WE Finance Code Latin America, Africa, and South Asia

In Latin America, we continued supporting the Dominican Republic in its implementation journey. Following last year’s national launch, efforts in 2025 focused on embedding the Code within partner banks’ data management systems and building practical pathways for product development informed by gender-disaggregated data insights.

Across South Asia and Africa, the WE Finance Code gained momentum across new markets, with Pakistan successfully launching its Code, with our technical assistance to regulators and partner banks to align the national framework with global standards. In Nigeria, CCX built on its earlier work on the development of the national women’s financial inclusion data dashboards, supporting regulators and financial service providers as they take the first coordinated steps toward forming a national coalition for the Code. In Kenya and Uganda, we contributed to awareness and technical sessions to familiarize market actors with the Code’s objectives and tools. The Code has since been launched in Uganda, in an event that saw the Bank of Uganda take on role of Code Champion and 15 signatories commit to the Code.

WE Finance Code Middle East and North Africa

Meanwhile, in the MENA region, ConsumerCentriX continued to contribute to the advancement of the WE Finance Code in 2025, particularly in Egypt, Jordan, and Morocco.  In Morocco, we collaborated closely with key stakeholders to support the national launch and implementation of the WE Finance Code under the country’s Financial Inclusion Strategy.  In Jordan, we are working closely with the Central Bank of Jordan and key partners to strengthen coalitions and promote the use of sex-disaggregated data in financial services. Meanwhile, in Egypt, together with the Central Bank of Egypt, we convened leading banks and non-banking financial institutions to engage in a national dialogue on sex-disaggregated data collection and usage, building on significant advances under Egypt’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy.

Through the scale-up of the WE Finance Code and sustained collaboration with our partners, the WE Finance Code has evolved into a shared global platform for systemic inclusion. Across all regions, our work has focused on supporting financial ecosystem players on aligning data with market realities, helping them recognize that inclusion is not only equitable but also commercially strategic. The growing network of countries demonstrates that when data, collaboration, and business incentives converge, inclusive finance becomes both sustainable and scalable, laying the foundation for lasting transformation in how financial systems serve women entrepreneurs.