Abuja, 26 April 2023 - The African Development Bank has signed a $525,000 grant agreement with Africa Fintech Network (AFN) for the
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion
The Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) accelerates financial inclusion by investing in the expansion of digital financial services across Africa. By 2030, ADFI will deploy $400 million in grants and loans with the goal of ensuring 332 million more Africans - of which 60% are women, have access to finance.
ADFI has committed to ensuring 60% of all projects across our four pillars will be gender-intentional
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26 April 2023
ADFI NEWS: African Development Bank and Africa Fintech Network sign $525,000 grant, awarded by the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), to strengthen development of fintech in Africa
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24 March 2023
ADFI PERSPECTIVE: Overcoming barriers to African women’s access to and use of digital financial solutions
Recent data shows the significant improvement in financial inclusion across the world, with an increase in global account ownership at 76%.
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24 March 2023
INSIGHTS: Addressing gender norms to improve African women’s ability to access, use, and benefit from digital financial services.
The expansion of digital financial services led by the significant growth of mobile money has been key to increasing financial inclusion.
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23 March 2023
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INSIGHTS: Promoting gender-sensitive digital financial services, policies and regulations across ECOWAS
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23 March 2023
INSIGHTS: Enhancing women's access to financial services in northern Nigeria through female mobile money agent networks
“Women will benefit from being able to carry out transactions on their phone, especially in this part of the country where the man is usually in co
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23 March 2023
INSIGHTS: Empowerment of women smallholder farmers through digital microinsurance
“Agriculture is more likely than other sectors to offer multiple opportunities for women's empowerment.
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23 March 2023
INSIGHTS: Accelerating access to finance for women businesses (WSMEs): leveraging data and technology
Despite forming the largest percentage of women entrepreneurs in the world, women small and medium enterprises (WSMEs) in Africa face an estimated USD 42 billion financing gap across business value
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15 March 2023
SupTech Case Study for Financial Consumer Protection Consumer Complaints Chatbot in Rwanda
SupTech Case Study for Financial Consumer Protection
06 March 2023
FAQs: ADFI CALL FOR PROPOSALS 2023
FAQs: ADFI Call for Proposals 2023
In line with our 2023 work program, ADFI has launched a Call for Proposals to select viable and scalable digital financial solution (DFS) initiatives aimed at f
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02 March 2023
INSIGHT: Executing human centred design research into smartphone-enabled digital financial services for women
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