Financial regulators and policymakers play a pivotal role in establishing supportive and enabling policies that are vital to accelerating women’s financial inclusion.

A key commitment within the AFI Denarau Action Plan is to consider and implement best practices in integrating policies for financial inclusion within national financial inclusion strategies through AFI’s Financial Inclusion Strategies Peer Learning Group. This guideline note delivers on this promise.

This publication is an update of the Integrating Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion into National Strategies Guideline Note No. 27, originally published in March 2017.