Drawing a straight line from capacity-building to policy change is likely impossible. But we can still bring structure and rigor to a holistic assessment process.

As new and underserved groups start using Digital Financial Services (DFS), each sector plays a vital role in creating a web of inclusion, accountability and protection.

The launch of a new Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub to champion equal access to Digital Financial Services for women, with initial efforts to support local coalitions in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as well as to encourage others to join the coalition.

The launch of a new Women’s Digital Financial Inclusion Advocacy Hub to champion equal access to Digital Financial Services for women, with initial efforts to support local coalitions in Indonesia and Ethiopia, as well as to encourage others to join the coalition.

UNCDF and Flutterwave join forces to ensure women's voices are included during the policymaking process on digital financial services. In June 2021, our CEMAC advisory panel shared 23 proposals for accelerating women’s financial inclusion with regulators and public decision-makers in the region. Read the full report here.

The WDFI Advocacy Hub launched June 9, 2022, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Join us in welcoming the member oganisations of the newly founded local Coalition.

The Ethiopia Coalition launched June 9, 2022, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This will mark the official beginning of WDFI Advocacy Hub activities in the region. 

For World's Consumer Rights Day 2022, UNCDF convened civil society representatives from Gabon and Nigeria and a regulator from Sierra Leone to share their views on how digital financial services can better serve their purpose and why a gender lens matters for Financial Consumer Protection.

Aneth Kasebele is recognised by Women in Fintech Powerlist 2021 for her work in digital finance.

UNCDF is calling for Ethiopian civil society and private sector organisations to join a local coalition to help increase women’s digital and financial inclusion.

UNCDF Policy Accelerator and the Arab Monetary Fund are working together to support financial inclusion and digital financial services in the Arab region, as part of our approach to collaborating with a wide range of development partners, as well as a natural extension of our ongoing and planned work in North Africa.

Join us on World Consumers Rights Day for a lively discussion with representatives from West and Central Africa on why a gender lens is critical to financial consumer protection — and how to increase protection for all consumers.

UNCDF Policy Accelerator will work with Women's World Banking to co-create a strategic advocacy program that will support local stakeholders in priority countries to advocate for women’s digital and financial inclusion (WDFI) and ensure that WDFI is a priority among country, regional, and global decision makers.

We’ve learned that diversifying and strengthening our relationships while broadening our areas of expertise can help us adapt quickly to new technical, political, and public health realities and support a more resilient policymaking process.

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, all of our capacity-building trainings have shifted online. We’ve learned that when you identify clear regulatory goals, engage a cross-section of stakeholders, support internal champions, and invest in your team, capacity-building can accelerate policy change.

29 participants from 14 institutions will work together intensively for two months to identify and develop policy solutions in promotion of Egypt's National Financial Inclusion Strategy.

The mobile market in Cameroon is booming yet only a third of adults have bank accounts. This presents a major opportunity for UNCDF to support the expansion of Digital Financial Services in the country.

…and how we’re working with colleagues at UNCDF and with Macmillan Keck to better understand the specific ways that policy and regulation can help create economies that include everyone.

How can we develop inclusive digital financial services in the CEMAC region, where more than one in three women are excluded from formal financial services? And what role do policymakers play in ensuring service meet women's needs?

We believe people directly impacted by policy change must participate in its design. Women — and groups representing women — have an important role to play. (Resources below.)