Together with Banque Centrale de la République de Guinée (BCRG), the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) will be hosting the 6th Annual Roundtable of the Leaders of the African Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (AfPI), taking place from 10-11 May 2018 in Conakry, Guinea.

Prior to the Roundtable, BCRG and AFI will co-host the fourth meeting of the Experts Group on Financial Inclusion Policy (EGFIP) on 7 May 2018.

The regional event also includes a high-level, Public-Private Dialogue (PPD) on breaking the barriers of digitally-enabled cross-border remittances in Africa. In addition, as part of AFI’s PPD platform, a regulatory training on digital financial services (DFS) will be held from 8-9 May 2018.

Expecting more than 100 regulators and policymakers, AfPI will address barriers for women-owned MSMEs/SMEs to access credit from formal financial institutions, discuss issues on enhancing interoperability for DFS in Africa, and highlight key policy and regulatory approaches to facilitate effective consumer protection for digital credit in Africa.

About AfPI

AfPI is the primary platform for AFI’s African members to support and develop financial inclusion policy and regulatory frameworks in Africa, and to coordinate regional peer learning efforts.

The scope of AfPI includes policy solutions for small and medium enterprise (SME) finance, agriculture finance, and women’s financial inclusion. These solutions offer greater potential for deepening financial inclusion in Africa and go beyond the work on enabling regulatory environment for scaling-up mobile phone financial services.

The leaders of AFI member institutions in Africa unveiled the African Financial Inclusion Policy Initiative (AfPI) in May 2017 in Maputo, Mozambique. Moving beyond mobile phone financial services, AfPI is a successor of the African Mobile Phone Financial Services Policy Initiative (AMPI) that was launched in February 2013, in Zanzibar, Tanzania.