South Asia Regional Initiative on Financial Inclusion and Regional Training on Digital Payment Innovation

Following the successful outcome of the South Asia Leaders Roundtable held in November 2021 in which a consensus was reached to launch a South Asia Regional Initiative on financial inclusion in 2022, we are pleased to share that we are making good progress and taking concrete steps towards the launch of the Regional Initiative for South Asian member institutions.

As we approach the launch of the regional Initiative at the Global Policy Forum (GPF) in Jordan in September 2022, AFI Management Unit in consultation with the members, is proposing a technical level preparatory meeting for the launch of the regional initiative to be held on 19^th July with the objective to deliberate and develop a draft action plan which will be presented to the leaders at the GPF for feedback and endorsement. This technical level preparatory meeting will be followed by a two-day (20-21 July 2022) tailored Regional Training on Leveraging Payment Innovations for Accelerated Financial Inclusion in South Asia.