Chapter 1: Gendered Finance: Inclusion and Transformation -- Chapter 2: Informal financial services in the financial inclusion matrix: gendered perspectives from Kenya and Zimbabwe -- Chapter 3: Understanding financial inclusion in Africa from the perspective of saving and borrowing patterns -- Chpater 4: The Political Socioeconomic Fallout of the Mismanagement of COVID-19 Public Funds in South Africa -- Chapter 5: Re-imagining informal settlements as spaces for enhancing women informal entrepreneurship in South Africa: a financial inclusion perspective -- Chapter 6: The Role of Institutions in Promoting Financial Inclusion of MSMEs in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 7: Fintech and Financial inclusion: Closing the gender gap -- Chapter 8: Financing Women and Gender Inclusion in Cote d’Ivoire’s Peacebuilding Process -- Chapter 9: Digital Financial Inclusion for Women in Africa: Prospects and Challenges -- Chapter 10: Gender and Digital Financial Inclusion: Assessment of Rural/Urban Dichotomy in Microfinance and Table Banking Operations in ECOWAS -- Chapter 11: Gendered Dimension for Digital Financial Inclusion in Nigeria.

This volume presents a collection of cases that examine the status of financial inclusion for women across a variety of states in the African continent. The book uses a qualitative research method and presents both primary to secondary data to narrate the impact of gender-responsive budgeting on women's empowerment and gender equality in these communities. The chapters present the analysis of the effectiveness of African state’ approaches and share lessons that different African economies, whether currently booming or struggling, can enhance or implement toward the financial inclusion and gender budgeting response at all structural levels. The main objectives of this volume are to understand different processes for financial inclusion to gender issues at a national level and to help encourage reflection on what lessons could be learned between states and what factors cause divergence in multilateral settings so that they can be understood and addressed.