Kicking off a women-focused finance convention in Amman

In lower than 24 hours, Girls’s World Banking can be kicking off its first convention for the Center East and North Africa (MENA) area in Amman, Jordan, “Constructing Girls-Centered Finance: the World-Native Expertise” below the patronage of Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah. We’re thrilled to be presenting this one-of-a-kind convention with Sanabel and co-hosting with our native community member, Microfund for Girls.

The impetus for holding a women-focused finance convention in MENA couldn’t be clearer: solely 13% of girls have a proper financial savings account with 4% of girls accessing a mortgage – these numbers are the bottom on the earth and if not addressed, will stop any vital financial development for the area. Given the variety of folks registered for the convention, we all know there’s plenty of curiosity in addressing this difficulty – we’ve practically 300 confirmed attendees, together with 45 community member individuals from 33 establishments world wide.

Girls’s World Banking has a robust focus within the area. We just lately expanded our community with the addition of Al Majmoua (Lebanon) and labored intently with Microfund for Girls (Jordan) on the launch of the profitable Ri’aya (Caregiver) micro medical health insurance product and can be increasing it to Morocco. We’re additionally at the moment supporting Lead Basis’s (Egypt) growth of a person lending program. Microfund for Girls was additionally awarded the 2013 Excellence in Management Award.

Girls’s World Banking will carry its intensive, thirty-year lengthy expertise working with monetary establishments world wide in dialog with different regional and international specialists on monetary inclusion. Among the many topics coated on this two-day convention are product improvements corresponding to microinsurance and cell banking; influence investing; managing by way of a disaster; measuring social efficiency and regulation. All matters after all, can be mentioned by way of a regional and gender lens.

We couldn’t be extra grateful for the beneficiant help of our lead sponsor, Citi Microfinance, in addition to our principal sponsors Grameen Jameel, the IFC and MetLife Basis; companions GIZ, Jordan Insurance coverage Firm and White and Case; and supporters Fern Software program, SANAD and Temenos. We admire their help of selling monetary companies that target the wants of low-income girls of the MENA area.

I encourage you to comply with the hashtag #bwffconf on Twitter to take part within the conversations occurring through the convention even if you’re unable to hitch us. Our employees may also be running a blog in regards to the insights realized through the varied panels so maintain a look-out on our weblog as we share them with you over the following couple of months.