Achieving gender parity for development is a key objective of the Bank for which enhanced access to finance and technical support for upskilling women led businesses is paramount.
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Accelerating Financial Inclusion
A key advocate for African digital financial inclusion.
ADFI works to address the systemic barriers to the growth, uptake and use of digital financial solutions, especially by women and micro and small businesses, by making strategic and catalytic investments in the DFS ecosystem across the continent.
ADFI has committed to ensuring 60% of all projects across our three pillars will be gender-intentional
Gender-intentional
Community news + opportunities
16 April 2025
REQUESTS FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: FIRM & INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANTS - ADFI WSME Program Enhanced Access to Finance Leveraging Data and Technology
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10 April 2025
Agence française de développement commits additional €3 million to Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility to boost digital financial inclusion
The Agence française de développement (AFD) has committed an additional €3 million to the African Development Bank-managed Africa Digital Financial Inclusion
Community news + opportunities
12 July 2024
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Bilingual Digital Financial Services Consultant
The African Development Bank (the Bank) hereby invites Individual Consultants to ind
Community news + opportunities
02 April 2024
REOI: Individual & firm consultancies_Harmonisation of existing payments system infrastructure across ECOWAS
HARMONISATION OF EXISTING PAYMENTS SYSTEM INFRASTRUCTURE ACROSS ECOWAS
Blog
30 January 2024
INSIGHTS: Investing in innovative research approaches to understand and address barriers to financial inclusion for women
Blog
21 December 2023
INSIGHTS: Harmonising gender mainstreaming in digital financial services policies and regulations across ECOWAS
Africa has a gender-inclusion gap of 12% as compared to the global average of 4%, acc
Community news + opportunities
20 December 2023
REQUEST FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST: Enhance women's digital financial inclusion
With the financial support from the African Development Bank under the African Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) program, M-KOPA seeks to improve its DFS offerings for low-income women entrepreneurs, specifically
ADFI Projects
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