Therefore, a necessary step in enhancing finance for the women should be to ensure an upscale of their leadership, technical, entrepreneurial and managerial skills. An important priority for governments should be increasing the enrolment of girls across all levels of education complemented by efforts to improve the quality of education that they receive.
While it is important to build the capacity of financial institutions to better serve women entrepreneurs, it is also imperative that women are provided with the opportunity to be financially literate, so that they can speak the language of finance. Women face peculiar exclusion as a result of cultural, religious and social biases that hinder their access to financial services.