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22 September 2020
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Updates
22 September 2020
14 September 2020
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
Gender-intentional
Blog
22 September 2020
How Ghana’s New Digital Finance Policy Can Drive Women’s Inclusion
Ghana made waves earlier this year when it launched the world’s first digital financial services (DFS) policy, building on the past five years of explosive DFS growth in the country. Among the policy’s goals is to ensure that
News
18 September 2020
Agricultural innovation with digital solutions increase smallholder yields in Africa
APA 16 Sep - To accelerate growth of digital agricultural solutions, experts called for the need for sound national strategies including the creation of an enabling policy and regulatory environment to support adoption of
News
14 September 2020
How digitalisation is reshaping the energy sector
Digitalisation is making inroads into every sector and energy is not immune to this disruption. In some respects, the industry can embrace digitalisation as a key enabler of the transition to a low-carbon energy system. Let’s
News
27 July 2020
Ghana mobile money interoperability transactions rise 400% in six months
The volume of Mobile Money Interoperability (MMI) transactions jumped over 444 percent in the first half of this year compared to the same period last year. According to the Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems
Blog
16 April 2020
OP-ED: COVID-19 pandemic bolsters case for technology-based economic resilience
Stefan Nalletamby is the African Development Bank’s acting Vice-President for Private Sector, Infrastructure and Industrialisation. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a devastating impact globally, the African
Blog
16 April 2020
BLOG: What if we quarantine cash in the time of COVID-19?
Jamelino Akogbeto, ADFI Digital Financial Services Specialist. The COVID-19-related economic disruptions and their impacts on payment behavior across West Africa is worth urgent examination. To address the crisis and comply
News
16 June 2019
African Development Bank and partners launch new facility to boost digital financial inclusion in Africa
The African Development Bank’s June 2019 Annual Meetings in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, saw the launch of the Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI), designed to aid the safety and expansion of digital financial
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