FINANCIAL INCLUSION STRATEGY (FIS) PEER LEARNING GROUP

Policymakers in the AFI network have reached a consensus that National Financial Inclusion Strategies (NFIS) are essential in coordinating financial inclusion policies and ensuring they are based on sound data and the impacts are robustly monitored. AFI’s Financial Inclusion Strategy (FIS) Peer Learning Group promotes the development, implementation and monitoring and evaluation of national financial inclusion strategies.

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KEY OBJECTIVES FISPLG provides practical support to countries that have made commitments under the Maya Declaration and to the G20 through its Financial Inclusion Peer Learning Program. > Facilitate peer learning on the different approaches to strategy development and implementation across the network; > Provide a platform for peer reviews of draft strategies and action plans; > Develop joint guidance on aspects of national strategy formulation and implementation; and > Support the capacity of members to develop and implement financial inclusion strategies, including through connections to expert stakeholders.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES

> Gender Savings Group: Guideline Note on Gender Savings Groups; Case Study Gender SavingsGroups in Egypt. > Youth and Financial Inclusion Subgroup: Guideline Note Integrating Youth in NFIS. > Inclusive Green Finance Subgroup: Toolkit Integrating the IGF perspective in a NFIS. > M&E and NFIS (jointly with FIDWG): Guidance Note on M&E Framework for National Financial Inclusion Strategies. > Onboarding of the Informal Sector (jointly with SMEFWG): Policy Framework on onboarding of the informal sector.

Member Policy Knowledge 58 Institutions 53 Countries 97 Changess 14 Products KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS PEER REVIEWS

> SDGs & Socially Responsible Finance > of Egypt 2020 (SRF) - Case Studies from Selected Review of the State of Financial Inclusion AFI Member Report draft report > Palestine Monetary Authority > Guideline Note 35: Effective 2019 Review of Palestine’s NFIS Stakeholder Coordination for > Bank of Uganda National Financial Inclusion Strategy Review of Uganda’s NFIS Implementation > Bank of > Guideline Note 34: Communication Review of Zambia’s NFIS Strategies for National Financial > Bank of Zambia Inclusion Strategy Implementation NFIS lII, Updated Draft I > Inclusive Insurance in National > Ministry of Finance Swaziland & Central 2018 Financial Inclusion Strategies Bank of Swaziland Draft document of Swaziland’s National > National Financial Inclusion Financial Inclusion Strategy Strategies: Current State of Practice > Reserve Bank of > Case Study 3: Bank on Her: > Central Bank of Solomon Islands 2017 Diamond Bank Enhances > Banco de Moçambique Opportunities for Nigeria’s Low- NFIS of Mozambique Income Women to Save > Superintendence of Banking Peru > Case Study 2: Women’s Financial NFIS of the Republic of Peru Inclusion in the Solomon Islands. > Philippines A simple opportunity can make a NFIS of the Philippines difference > MOF Swaziland Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS : Women Financing: > Case Study 1 and associated roadmap documents A case study of Lapo Microfinance > Madagascar Bank Limited Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS > National Coordination and and associated roadmap documents Leadership Structure > Palestine > Guideline Note 28: Defining Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS Financial Inclusion and associated roadmap documents > Guideline Note 27: Integrating > Superintendencia & Central Bank Gender and Women’s Financial Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS Inclusion into National Strategies and associated roadmap documents > Ecuador > Guideline Note 20: National Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS 2016 Financial Inclusion Strategies: and associated roadmap documents A Toolkit > Banque de la République d’Haïti Country’s proposal for developing a NFIS > National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2015 and associated roadmap documents Development: Current State of > Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan Practice Country’s proposal for a NFIS document > Progress on National Financial > Central Bank of Liberia 2013 Inclusion Strategies (NFIS) - NFIS of Liberia A Timeline of Achievements > Da Afghanistan Bank NFIS of Afghanistan MEMBER INSTITUTIONS

CHAIR > Central Bank of The Gambia > Central Bank of the Republic of > Bank of Tanzania Uzbekistan CO-CHAIR > Centrale Bank van Suriname > Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores > Ministry of Finance of Eswatini de México (CNBV) > Bank of Uganda > Da Afghanistan Bank > Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador > Direction Générale du Trésor, Ministère > Banco Central de São Tomé e Príncipe de l’Economie et des Finances, Madagascar > Banco Central de Timor-Leste > Financial Regulatory Commission of > Banco de Moçambique Mongolia > Banco Nacional de Angola > Insurance Development and Regulatory > Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Authority Bangladesh > Bangladesh Bank > Maldives Monetary Authority > Bank Al-Maghrib > Microcredit Regulatory Authority of > Bank Negara Malaysia Bangladesh > Bank of Papua New Guinea > Ministère de l’Economie, des Finances > Bank of Sierra Leone et du Budget du Sénégal > Bank of Tanzania > Ministère des Finances de la République > Bank of Uganda Tunisienne > Bank of Zambia > Ministry of Finance - Eswatini > Banque Centrale de Mauritanie > Ministry of Finance Zambia > Banque Centrale de Tunisie > National Bank of Cambodia > Banque Centrale des Etats de l’Afrique > National Bank of Tajikistan de l’Ouest (BCEAO) > National Bank of the Republic of Belarus > Banque Centrale du Congo > National Reserve Bank of Tonga > Banque de la République d’Haiti > Nepal Rastra Bank > Banque de la République du Burundi > Palestine Monetary Authority >  > Reserve Bank of Fiji > Central Bank of Egypt > Reserve Bank of > Central Bank of Eswatini > Reserve Bank of Vanuatu > Central Bank of Jordan > Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe > Central Bank of Lesotho > Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan > Central Bank of Liberia > Superintendencia de la Economía Popular > Central Bank of Nigeria y Solidaria de Ecuador > Central Bank of Samoa > Superintendencia General de Entidades > Central Bank of Solomon Islands Financieras de Costa Rica (SUGEF) > Central Bank of Sri Lanka > Central Bank of the Bahamas

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