16/03/2026
Building Financial Resilience: Preparing for Life’s Shocks
💡 Women across the globe—particularly in vulnerable communities—tend to have lower financial resilience than men, making them more exposed to emergencies, crises, and therapy-level poverty.
🔗 Women’s World Banking / Economist Impact (2025):
Today 753 million women in climate vulnerable areas lack access to basic financial services such as savings, credit, and insurance—tools that build resilience. https://impact.economist.com/sustainability/social-sustainability/womens-financial-resilience-the-key-to-advancing-climate-action
🔗 OECD (2021), G20/OECD-INFE Report on Supporting Financial Resilience through Digital Financial Literacy:
This study shows that lower financial literacy is directly linked to lower resilience—especially among women and low-income groups. https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/g20-oecd-infe-report-on-supporting-financial-resilience-and-transformation-through-digital-financial-literacy_0132c06d-en.html
🔍 Why this matters:
• Lower resilience means women are less likely to afford emergency expenses within 30 days, and more likely to rely on unreliable informal sources.
• Financial shocks—health costs, job loss, climate events—hit women harder due to lower savings, credit access, and protection.
• Digital financial literacy and access to savings, credit, and insurance products boost resilience significantly.
• Building financial resilience equips women to withstand crises and plan with confidence.
Through the FEMpower in Finance project, we at The Vision Works are working together with our partners to develop a modular financial literacy curriculum, a digital toolbox, and case studies tailored to women’s real financial needs — especially in rural or underserved areas. These resources will be rolled out step by step until 2026 to support financial independence across generations.
🔗 Project: FEMpower in Finance
https://fempower.finance/
Partners:cyprus.1
/Go Woman Alliance Europe
/Fempower EU/61574066871487/