In-Country Implementation (ICI) is a strategic initiative that aims to accelerate financial inclusion across the AFI network. Driven by AFI’s core ethos of a bottom-up, member-driven approach, the ICI program ensures that AFI continues to represent members’ views and needs while remaining neutral in delivering its services.
The ICI program also reinforces AFI’s strategic objective to support members in implementing financial inclusion policies. The ICI program achieves its objectives by a demand-based approach, prioritizing initiatives based on AFI Member Accords and Maya Declaration Commitments, fostering peer-learning among the member institutions, implementing policy interventions, and fostering high-impact projects with scalability potential, thereby fostering an ecosystem of shared growth and knowledge.
Eligibility
Following are two eligibility criteria that allow for diverse, impactful, and fair application of the ICI program, while remaining cognizant of AFI’s contractual obligations and membership structures.
There are two types of ICI services available:
AFI provides financial support in the form of grants to its member institutions to aid them in attaining their policy objectives for financial inclusion on a national scale. These grants catalyze the development and successful execution of comprehensive financial inclusion policies that, in turn, have a profound impact on improving the accessibility, usage, and quality of financial services for the unbanked and underbanked populations. This grant support enables the member institutions to tackle diverse challenges and deliver impactful policy outcomes.
Technical support includes a range of AFI support services tailored to member institutions. These technical supports primarily include assisting with the development of policies and regulations, conducting comprehensive policy reviews, and providing input on members’ financial inclusion policies, strategies, or regulatory tools adopted by the member institutions. Technical support also includes conducting technical on-site capacity-building training for implementing regulatory and/or supervisory tools and providing technical input for member workshops or seminars.
Projects per region
Projects per thematic area
* Data as of June 2023
Central Bank of Lesotho
Ministry of Finance Eswatini
Central Bank of the Gambia
Bank of Uganda
Reserve Bank of Malawi
Banco de Mozambique
Bank of Namibia
Banco Central de Sao Tome e Principe
Ministere de l’Economie et des Finances de la Cote d’Ivoire
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe
Central Bank of Nigeria
Central Bank of Kenya
Central Bank of Liberia
Bank of Ghana
Banque de la Republique du Burundi
Bank of Sierra Leone
Ministry of Finance and Budget, Senegal
National Bank of Rwanda
Banque Centrale des Etats de l’Afrique de l’Ouest
Central Bank of Seychelles
Ministere des Finances de la Republique du Niger
Central Bank of Eswatini
Banque Centrale des Comores
Banque Centrale de Mauritanie
Central Bank of Sudan
Central Bank of Egypt
Banque Centrale de Tunisie
Palestine Monetary Authority
Central Bank of Iraq
Royal Monetary Authority of Bhutan
Maldives Monetary Authority
Bangladesh Bank
Nepal Rastra Bank
National Bank of Cambodia
State Bank of Pakistan
Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Financial Regulatory Commission of Mongolia
Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan
Central Bank of Armenia
Reserve Bank of Vanuatu
Central Bank of Solomon Islands
Bank of Papua New Guinea
Reserve Bank of Fiji
Central Bank of Samoa
Comision Nacional Bancaria y de Valores de Mexico
Superintendecia de la Economia Popular y Solidaria de Ecuador
Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador
Central Bank of Suriname
Superintendencia General de Entidades Financieras de Costa Rica (SUGEF)
Superintendencia de Bancos de la República Dominicana
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