As girls more and more depend on cellphones, digital funds, messaging apps, and on-line marketplaces to handle their companies and monetary lives, technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) is changing into each a security threat and a barrier to financial participation. Harassment, impersonation, privateness violations, monetary coercion, and different digitally enabled harms can undermine girls’s belief in, and use of digital monetary companies.
On this episode of Making Finance Work for Ladies, we converse with Lilian Olivia Orero, Founding father of SafeOnline Ladies Kenya (SOW-Kenya), whose work sits on the intersection of legislation, know-how, and gender. Drawing on SOW-Kenya’s digital-safety schooling, survivor-centered help and know-how, and coverage advocacy, Lilian shares what girls in Kenya are experiencing on-line, how TFGBV can restrict their confidence and participation in digital areas, and what sensible responses might help forestall hurt and help survivors.
