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MEDIA RELEASE
April 2, 2019
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Karen Miller, +1 212 556 3149 or klm@womensworldbanking.org
Ladies’s World Banking and Alliance for Monetary Inclusion collect Central Bankers and Senior Policymakers from all over the world to kick off its inaugural Management and Variety Program for Regulators
Oxford, England – Ladies’s World Banking, in partnership with the Alliance for Monetary Inclusion (AFI), welcome 33 leaders from 20 central banks and different regulatory our bodies from rising international locations this week to Oxford College to kick off its nine-month Management and Variety Program for Regulators.
This system, funded by Visa Basis, is taught by Ladies’s World Banking and college from Oxford College’s Saïd Enterprise Faculty and arrange along with AFI. This system equips individuals with management instruments and abilities to advance monetary inclusion coverage initiatives for girls and construct extra gender-diverse groups and leaders inside their respective establishment. It’s designed to strengthen the function central bankers, regulators and policymakers play in creating an atmosphere that promotes the monetary inclusion of ladies by constructing a extra strong pipeline of ladies leaders and growing particular insurance policies to help gender efforts in nationwide monetary inclusion methods.
A senior official from every establishment identifies a high-potential girl chief in its group to undergo this system collectively. The senior official identifies a coverage initiative associated to serving the ladies’s market, reminiscent of implementing tiered Know Your Buyer (KYC) rules to facilitate simpler entry for girls to open financial institution and cell cash accounts or nationwide efforts to construct girls’s monetary and digital capabilities. The senior official then works together with his or her high-potential girl chief to implement the initiative whereas concurrently supporting her skilled growth throughout and after this system.
“We’re thrilled to launch this program so as to construct extra inclusive insurance policies whereas additionally growing extra girls leaders in regulatory our bodies,” stated Mary Ellen Iskenderian, President and CEO of Ladies’s World Banking. “Policymakers have a vital function in constructing a safer and affluent world for everybody. This program will present the instruments to speed up these efforts.”
At Oxford College, individuals will have interaction in roundtables, classroom trainings and coverage boards to develop the abilities to create an enabling atmosphere for girls’s monetary inclusion and the instruments to advance girls leaders inside their establishments. Further digital touchpoints happen all year long with this system culminating with a capstone mission presentation in the course of the 2019 AFI International Coverage Discussion board in Kigali, Rwanda in September.
Gender and ladies’s monetary inclusion in AFI is spearheaded by the adoption and efficient implementation of the Denarau Motion Plan, which calls on the AFI membership to halve the monetary inclusion gender hole of their respective jurisdictions by 2021. AFI member establishments in 32 international locations have already articulated nationwide coverage commitments on gender and ladies’s monetary inclusion underneath the Maya Declaration, the one world initiative that encourages nationwide commitments to monetary inclusion. Nonetheless, solely 10 % of those establishments, or 10 out of 104, have females on the helm.“Larger illustration of ladies within the senior management ranges of central banks and monetary regulatory establishments and altering the mindset are essential for advancing gender-sensitive coverage making and attaining AFI’s commitments on closing the gender hole and ladies’s monetary inclusion,” stated Dr. Alfred Hannig, AFI Govt Director.
AFI members perceive that equal entry to monetary companies and gender range result in elevated financial welfare and enhanced monetary stability, Dr Hannig added. He highlighted that “the Management & Variety program helps the drive in the direction of gender range and ensures the ability we have to push ahead the agenda on girls’s monetary inclusion efforts inside our member establishments.”
“Ladies are key to constructing a affluent world, and enabling communities to thrive,” stated Invoice Sheedy, Chair of the Board, Visa Basis and Govt Vice President, Visa Inc. “There isn’t any silver bullet, nevertheless, to closing persistent gender gaps in entry to monetary companies. Progress begins with women-centric merchandise and insurance policies. We will additionally leverage expertise for improvements that may assist girls entry and use monetary companies of their native context.”
Contributors within the inaugural class embody the Central Financial institution of The Bahamas; Workplace of the Supervisor of Insurance coverage & Non-public Pensions, Belize; Nationwide Financial institution of Cambodia; Central Financial institution of Egypt; Monetary Regulatory Authority of Egypt; Financial institution of Ghana; Financial institution of the Republic of Haiti; Financial institution Indonesia; Govt Workplace of the President of Indonesia; Central Financial institution of Lesotho; Ministry of Finance and Funds, Madagascar; Nationwide Banking and Securities Fee of Mexico; Ministry of Finance of Russia; Nationwide Financial institution of Rwanda; Financial institution of Zambia; and Reserve Financial institution of Zimbabwe.
To be taught extra about Ladies’s World Banking and its management applications, go to https://www.womensworldbanking.org/womens-leadership-programs/.
Ladies’s World Banking designs and invests within the monetary options, establishments and coverage environments in rising markets to create better financial stability and prosperity for girls, their households, and their communities. With a world attain of 53 companions in 32 international locations serving greater than 30 million girls shoppers, Ladies’s World Banking drives affect via its scalable, market-driven options; gender-lens non-public fairness fund; and management and variety applications.
Alliance for Monetary Inclusion (AFI) is the world chief on monetary inclusion coverage and regulation. AFI is a member-owned community of over 100 monetary inclusion policy-making and regulatory establishments from 90 growing and rising international locations all over the world; masking as much as 85 % of the world’s unbanked. AFI promotes and develops evidence-based coverage options that assist enhance the lives of an estimated 1.7 billion unbanked, out of which nearly 1 billion are girls, who wouldn’t have entry to formal monetary companies.
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