We, the members of the Deauville Partnership, represented at the Senior Officials Meeting and the High Level Conference “Responsible Financial Inclusion for Social Inclusion and Stability”, Berlin, 27./28. April 2015,

 

Recognize the critical importance of responsible financial inclusion as an element that contributes to creating jobs, increasing economic opportunities for youth, women, underserved groups such as the poor and small scale farmers and underdeveloped regions as well as increasing the unbanked and under-banked population’s access to and usage of a range of quality and cost-effective financial services and promoting micro, small and medium enterprises which, in turn, fosters economic stability and sustainable inclusive growth generally and specifically in the region of Middle East and North Africa (MENA)….