SPECIAL FEATURE AFI GENDER INCLUSIVE FINANCE AMBASSADOR INSTITUTION
BANGLADESH BANK
Bangladesh Bank has reported three policy changes, two aimed at enhancing women SME’s access to credit and one at strengthening data collection via a sexdisaggregated data reporting template.
Among the key recommendations in Bangladesh’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy is the creation of a separate gender-focused strategy targeted at accelerating women's financial inclusion.
Bangladesh Bank is committed to enhancing the economic empowerment of youth and women through the provision of agricultural credit.
Bangladesh Bank collects supply-side sexdisaggregated data on account ownership, credit, savings, agent banking, payments, microinsurance, school banking, green financing, and MSME financing.
“Gender equality is central to the Bangladesh Bank’s own goal of ensuring access to finance for all. Making digital finance work for women is key to reducing the gender gap.”
Md. Anwarul Islam General Manager Bangladesh Bank Vice Chair, AFI GIF Committee
Bangladesh Bank participated in the 2020 cohort of AFI’s Leadership & Diversity Program for Regulators and worked on a policy initiative aimed at increasing digital financial literacy for women, MSMEs and youth.