- September 13, 2019
- Posted by: admin
- Category: Current News
MEFMI will conduct an online course on Financial Inclusion from 16 September – 18 October 2019.
Financial inclusion remains an important and topical aspect worldwide. Globally, about 1.7 billion adults have no access to formal or semi-formal financial services. Governments all over the world have put in place strategies aimed at increasing access to financial services for the masses.
Although these strategies and various technological advancements have succeeded in reducing the number of people who are financially excluded, challenges still exist within member countries. Countries still struggle to balance inclusion with the other important goals of integrity and stability. Also, financial inclusion measures and indicators remain ambiguous and incomparable across countries; while men still dominate women across every measure of financial inclusion such as account ownership, access to credit, and access to savings.
This online course provides an introduction to financial inclusion, discusses the dimensions and measures of financial inclusion, the challenges faced by countries in advancing financial inclusion and provides possible recommendations.
The objective of this course is to introduce participants to the theoretical and regulatory concepts of Financial Inclusion.
The course modules are as follows:
- Introduction to Financial Inclusion
- Players in the Financial Inclusion Ecosystem
- Measuring Financial Inclusion
- Enabling Financial Inclusion through policy
- Beyond the Access Dimension
- Emerging issues in Financial Inclusion
The course is targeting staff working in Financial Inclusion Units; responsible for developing policies, regulations strategies pertaining to financial inclusion. Officials from other stakeholder departments like Bank supervision, payment systems, financial stability, legal, financial markets, who may need training in financial inclusion are also encouraged to enrol.