AFI has released its annual report from 2010. Entitled, “Progress review 2010: Activating the network and delivering services”, the report provides an overview of AFI’s past year’s strategic priorities, and discusses the results and impact of their implementation. It goes on to detail the year’s grantmaking activities – including statistics on region and policy area – as well as lessons learned. The publication also includes information on AFI’s governance and management.

During 2010, AFI expanded both in size and in the knowledge sharing activities of its membership. By year’s end, there were sixty-eight developing country financial inclusion policy and regulatory institutions in the AFI network. The organization now counts seventy-six members from seventy-five countries dedicated to sharing knowledge about financial inclusion policies that work. AFI also saw the formation of four new working groups, bringing the total to five.

Another milestone was reached in September 2010 when AFI held its second annual Global Policy Forum (GPF) in Bali, in coordination with the Bank of Indonesia. The yearly Forum serves as the focal point for AFI network cohesion, and is designed to bring together policymakers from AFI’s membership in developing countries and emerging markets to exchange, share and dialogue on how to innovate policy and institutional approaches to expand access to finance.

The AFI network is the premier global knowledge sharing platform for financial inclusion policymakers in the developing world and is an implementing partner for the G20’s Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). Additionally, the organization is a key contributor to the “G20 Principles for Innovative Financial Inclusion.”