Webinar: From Ideas to Implementation: Connecting Gender Data Solutions Across Markets

📅 Tuesday, October 27, 2026
🕙 8:00 AM ET / 12:00 PM UTC (75 minute duration)
📍 Virtual (Zoom)
🆓 Free Registration

How can promising gender data solutions move beyond prototypes to create meaningful change for women’s financial inclusion?

The Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR) hosted an interactive webinar exploring lessons, innovations and opportunities emerging from three recent Design Sprints focused on gender-disaggregated data (GDD).

Bringing together winning teams from AIR’s Global Design Sprint and implementation partners from Tanzania and Nigeria, this discussion explored how innovative approaches can address common challenges, strengthen regulatory decision-making and advance women’s financial inclusion.

The conversation explored:

Connecting solutions: Promising approaches to improving access to finance, strengthening gender data systems and translating insights into action.
Lessons from the field: Experiences from the Global, Tanzania and Nigeria Design Sprints, including opportunities and challenges in advancing solutions toward implementation.
Collaboration across markets: How shared learning, partnerships and complementary solutions can help turn promising ideas into practical outcomes.

Introducing AIR’s New GDD Playbook

The webinar also marked the launch of AIR’s new Gender-Disaggregated Data for Inclusive Regulation Playbook: From Gender Data to Regulatory Action.

Drawing on AIR’s global and country-level engagements, this practical resource brings together established frameworks, tools and lessons to help financial regulators move beyond data collection toward more informed supervision, policymaking and market development.

Attendees were among the first to learn about this new resource and how it can support efforts to translate gender data into meaningful action.

Featured Speakers

Global Design Sprint Teams

Paula Franco | EquiPass

Cécile Lapenu | CERISE

Otala Nakiranda | Value for Women

Mace Ojwang’ | OkHi

Country Implementation Partners

Safarani Seushi | FSDT, Tanzania

Zino Afiegbe | EFInA, Nigeria

AIR Speakers and Moderators

Sulita Levaux | Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR)

Jessica Alfaro | Alliance for Innovative Regulation (AIR)

Related Knowledge

WHITE PAPER • Gender-Disaggregated Data for Inclusive Regulation Playbook

AIR’s Gender-Disaggregated Data Playbook offers financial regulators practical guidance, tools and strategies to move beyond data collection and turn gender data into regulatory action that advances people’s financial health and inclusion.

1. Global Design Sprint: Harnessing Gender Data for Inclusive Regulation

REPORT • AIR’s Global Design Sprint Recap Report

Discover how nine global teams virtually developed innovative solutions to turn gender-disaggregated data into actionable insights. AIR’s recap highlights winning prototypes and key lessons for advancing women’s financial inclusion.

REPORT • AIR’s Nigeria Design Sprint Recap Report

AIR and the Central Bank of Nigeria brought together 65 participants to develop 10 innovative solutions that turn gender data into action. Explore the winning prototypes and lessons for advancing women’s financial inclusion.

REPORT • AIR’s Tanzania Design Sprint Recap Report

Explore how AIR, the Bank of Tanzania and FSD Tanzania collaborated to develop three prototype solutions that connect gender-disaggregated data to better regulatory decisions. Read the recap for key outcomes and lessons.

INITIATIVE • Gender-Disaggregated Data for Inclusive Regulation

This program supports regulators to strengthen how gender-disaggregated data is collected, analyzed, and applied in supervision and policymaking. By positioning data as both a diagnostic and an accountability tool, the program supports more adaptive, inclusive regulation.

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