Access Alliance
Access Alliance is a women led consulting firm providing gender smart advisory to impact investors and their investee companies, including microfinance institutions (MFIs), banks and fintechs, to take a more gender intentional approach to their work. We are committed to closing the gender financing gap for women by providing strategic advisory services, innovative, digitally enabled solutions, and actionable insights to financial institutions, investors, and funders.
We are a team of seasoned financial service professionals with decades of global experience in diverse emerging markets. Our backgrounds encompass roles as donors, investors, heads of financial institutions, and trusted advisors to both public and private sector entities. Rooted in the financial sector, we possess a profound understanding of our clients' and partners' business needs. This positions us to offer data-driven, practical, and actionable recommendations for implementing gender-smart strategies and solutions, ensuring maximum impact.
As a company, we are dedicated to driving positive social impact through the promotion of gender equality and more inclusive financial markets. We are committed to closing the gender financing gap for women by providing strategic advisory services, innovative solutions, and actionable insights to financial institutions, investors, and funders. Through our extensive expertise and data driven approach, we aim to work with our clients to challenge unconscious gender biases, uncover new opportunities and put into place actionable frameworks that foster inclusive growth.
Aligned with our commitment to advancing gender equity within inclusive financial markets, our forthcoming initiatives aim to amplify our impact and influence in this realm. We seek to deepen our engagement with microfinance institutions through collaborative partnerships, offering continuous support for the implementation of gender-intentional practices. Additionally, we are committed to leveraging our collaborative efforts for greater innovation, refining strategies based on insights gained through our partnerships in the microfinance sector.
A pivotal focus of our future initiatives is Women-Centric Design, providing practitioners with frameworks and tools to translate gender commitments into actionable strategies. Our dedication lies in empowering microfinance professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to design products and services that effectively address the diverse needs of their female customers. This emphasis on women-centered design to drive impact remains a cornerstone of our efforts in building capacity, with plans to expand training programs, workshops, and resources centered around this crucial approach.
Our overarching vision revolves around continuous learning, adaptation, and collaborative efforts, positioning Access Alliance as contributors to positive change within the microfinance and broader financial inclusion space. We are committed to being actively engaged in knowledge exchange platforms, such as the European Microfinance Platform (e-MFP). Through such engagements, we aim to enrich our understanding of the diverse needs of market actors around the topic of gender equity, contributing to collective learning and growth within the microfinance community.
