On 9 and 10 June, the Expert Group on Financial Inclusion Policy (EGFIP) of AFI’s Arab Region Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (ARFIPI) gathered in Casablanca, for a meeting hosted with Bank Al-Maghrib, to assess progress on ARFIPI’s 2025 action plan, and identify potential 2026 & 2027 activities. 

In her opening remarks, Fatima-Zahra Echihabi, EGFIP Chair and Director of the Financial Inclusion & Sustainable Development Department at Bank Al-Maghrib, said “this meeting marks a renewed commitment from all members to ARFIPI, reflecting our collective dedication to leveraging our collective intelligence, expertise, and experience in supporting each other to overcome persisting challenges, and to foster the achievement of our national goals. Moreover, it reaffirms our unwavering determination to preserve complementarity and collaboration values at the regional level.” 

Topics identified as priorities for ARFIPI include financial literacy, consumer protection, data, artificial intelligence, Islamic finance and SME finance. The EGFIP will now draft an action plan that incorporates these issues and present it to ARFIPI leaders for approval at the upcoming AFI Global Policy Forum in September. 

You can learn more about ARFIPI’s objectives, members, and focus areas on its webpage.