Each year, AFI recognizes a member institution that promotes the use of the Maya Declaration Commitment platform through making specific financial inclusion targets, updating implementation progress of these targets, and publicly sharing its implementation lessons.  

At the recent AFI Global Policy Forum, Bangladesh Bank received the 2025 Award – the other nominees were Palestine Monetary Authority, Bank of Uganda, Central Bank of Sri Lanka, and Central Bank of Egypt.

Bangladesh Bank stood out for having made the highest number of progress updates (33) against targets, which included:  

• ensuring acceptance of the National QR Standard “Bangla QR” for merchant payments
• provide in-person financial literacy training to at least 300,000 participants
• developing a financial inclusion data dashboard segmenting men, women, youth, physically challenged, third gender, elderly, Forcibly Displaced Persons, etc. 

Bangladesh Bank also logged a significant number of new targets, such as to formulate a comprehensive policy for financial service providers to accelerate women’s financial inclusion, and to integrate financial integrity modules into digital financial literacy programs aimed at young people, reaching at least 50,000 beneficiaries. 

You can learn more about the work that AFI members are doing in the 2025 Maya Declaration Progress Report.