Making the invisible visible: unlocking gender data for equality in Africa
Online – September 29, 2026. In the rural part of Tanzania, a woman works in an agricultural chain selling her crops to cooperatives on a monthly basis. Those transaction records are not digital, and therefore are invisible to traditional banks. If financial institutions’ scoring models were different, this would unlock formal credit and enable women like her to expand their farms, secure their families’ future and power the growth of their communities.
