Exploring Bangladesh’s Experience in Women’s Financial Inclusion, Sex Disaggregated Data and Digital Financial Services

From 3 to 6 February, AFI and Bangladesh Bank organized a global Joint Learning Program in Dhaka. Participants from 35 member institutions in 32 countries attended the event, which explored how to develop and implement policies on disaggregated data and innovative digital financial services in order to enhance women’s financial inclusion, drawing on Bangladesh’s experience.

“The positive impact of initiatives to increase women’s financial inclusion cannot be measured without data,” said Bangladesh Bank Governor, Dr. Ahsan H. Mansur. ”Bangladesh Bank launched a data dashboard in 2023 to illuminate the landscape of women’s financial inclusion through comprehensive data representation, with the goal of keeping the gender gap under constant monitoring.”