On 18 November, AFI’s Capacity Building unit hosted an AFI Educate webinar, Mainstreaming Gender: From National Strategy to Market Impact, giving participants practical tools to translate gender-inclusive finance strategies into real impact in women’s lives.

The session opened with the Reserve Bank of Fiji’s Gender Inclusive Finance Report (2025), using it as a case study to show how diagnostics, stakeholder engagement, and proven methodologies can build national consensus around women’s financial inclusion.

A panel discussion followed, featuring regulators and industry experts who have successfully translated gender commitments into concrete action. Speakers from the State Bank of Pakistan, Central Bank of Uzbekistan, and Women’s World Banking shared practical lessons and real-world examples of designing and executing successful gender-inclusive policies.

Based on its existing online courses, AFI Educate webinars serve as a complementary component for AFI’s learning community.

“AFI Educate webinars are designed to bring our online courses to life,” said AFI’s Head of Capacity Building, Madhurantika Moulick. “They offer learners a unique opportunity to move from theory to practice, engaging directly with industry experts who’ve successfully turned policies into impactful results in the real world.”

The first AFI Educate webinar, The Data-to-Impact Playbook: National Dashboards in Practice, held on 11 November, guided over 150 participants on how to move beyond simply collecting sex-disaggregated data (SDD) toward actively using it to drive policy implementation and market-level change.

The final AFI Educate webinar for 2025 will take place this coming Wednesday, 26 November, and will focus on Youth financial inclusion. For more info, or to register for this event, please contact afieducate@afi-global.org.