AFI KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTS

In 2019, AFI published 31 reports that were viewed 27,000 times through its website and shared 2,100 times via its social media channels. Publications explored emerging trends covering topics from, inclusive FinTech, gender, and green finance, to financial inclusion of forcibly displaced persons, cybersecurity, national financial inclusion strategies and small and medium enterprises. These included two annual reports, three case studies, six guideline notes, two member series, two policy models, one policy framework, a toolkit, a roadmap, one event report, three special reports, and nine factsheets.

Members’ experiences were highlighted in a series of case studies that focused on the major strides being made in gender and women’s financial inclusion in Egypt and Zimbabwe. Delving further were AFI’s members series on Rwanda’s use of social protection programs to enhance financial inclusion and how harnessing digital financial services nearly doubled Uganda’s formal financial inclusion rates.

In-depth reports detailed important findings on innovations in Know Your Customer processes, financial inclusion measurements pilot trials, the role of regulators in creating enabling FinTech ecosystems and how Latin America and the Caribbean countries are embracing digital financial services. Other notable knowledge products included Inclusive Green Finance’s first-ever special report on how AFI members were addressing the impacts of climate change as well as policy models on E-Money and Core Set of Financial Inclusion Indicators.

COMMUNICATING WOMEN’S FINANCIAL INCLUSION

TOOLKIT March 2019