The Africa Digital Financial Inclusion Facility (ADFI) was launched in 2019 by the African Development Bank in partnership with the Gates Foundation (BMGF), the French Development Agency (AFD), the Ministry of Finance, Government of Luxembourg, joined by the Ministry of Economy and Finance, France, the Women's Enterprise Finance Initiative (We-Fi) and the Ministry of Finance, India in 2020, 2022 and 2023 respectively.

Through catalytic and strategic investments in digital financial services throughout Africa, ADFI seeks to break down barriers to the growth and uptake of digital financial solutions to accelerate financial inclusion in general and reduce the gender gap in financial inclusion in particular. The facility intervenes across three main pillars: (i) digital infrastructure (ii) policy and regulation and (iii) products and innovation with gender inclusion and capacity building as cross-cutting themes.