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Acknowledgments

This special report is a product of the Alliance for Financial Inclusion and its members.

Contributors:

The following AFI members provided qualitative insights through technical interventions in the AFI virtual event on Policy responses to COVID-19 for young populations in Africa (July 2021) which were highly valued to develop this report: Paul Ihuoma Oluikpe (Central Bank of Nigeria), Teresa Nainde Evaristo Pascoal (Banco de Angola), Banji Milambo (Bank of Zambia), and Rachel Mushosho (Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe).

From the AFI Management Unit: This deliverable was led by Diana Schvarztein (Policy Manager, Financial Inclusion) with contributions from Kennedy Komba (Director, Strategy & Financial Inclusion Policy), Aban Haq (Head, PMO & Membership Engagement), Diana Taty Azman (Analyst, Policy Programs & Regional Initiatives), Helen Walbey (Head, Gender Inclusive Finance), Audrey Hove (Policy Specialist, Gender Inclusive Finance), and Beryl Tan Yi Lu (Senior Program Analyst, Gender Inclusive Finance).

AFI would like to extend special thanks to Danielle Hopkins (IF Consulting) for support in preparing this report.

This publication is supported by the Mastercard Foundation under AFI’s COVID-19 Policy Response.

We would like to thank AFI member institutions, partners and donors for generously contributing to the development of this publication.

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