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title: "Gender and rural microfinance: reaching and empowering women"
description: This is a guide on gender in rural finance by IFAD (Linda Mayoux and MAria Hartl) published in 2009. It provides guidance on how to make the arguments for investment in gender equality in rural finance. It touches on the…
url: "https://empoweratscale.org/resource-centre/gender-and-rural-microfinance-reaching-and-empowering-women/"
updated: "2023-04-05"
category: "HHM/GALS (Supported by E@S) / Guidelines - HHM/GALS (E@S Supported Files)"
tags:
  - "Rural Finance - HHM/GALS (E@S Supported Files)"
---

# Gender and rural microfinance: reaching and empowering women

This is a guide on gender in rural finance by IFAD (Linda Mayoux and MAria Hartl) published in 2009. It provides guidance on how to make the arguments for investment in gender equality in rural finance. It touches on the organisational gender mainstreaming and strategies for gender equality in financial product design and empowering financial services provision.

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 [IFAD-gender-rural-finance-manual-webversion](http://empoweratscale.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IFAD-gender-rural-finance-manual-webversion.pdf)[Download](http://empoweratscale.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IFAD-gender-rural-finance-manual-webversion.pdf)