Financial Inclusion Launches Dashboard
Stakeholders committed to the National Financial Inclusion in Nigeria are gathered in Abuja to scale up the interventions that would further crash the exclusion rate from 39.5% actualized in 2020.
Important in its meeting would be the launch of the financial dashboard for Enhancing Financial Innovation & Access (EFInA) CEO Isaiah Owolabi, said in a statement
Owolabi further said; “As part of strategic activities in line with the conference, EFInA is scheduled to launch the National Financial Inclusion Dashboard on its website.
“This tracks the National Financial Inclusion 2020 targets, and will participate in a panel session titled ‘Deepening digital financial services adoption and usage’ to share innovative digital financial inclusion models that has opportunity to advance adoption of digital financial services among women, youth, and low-income Nigerians.
“The International Financial Inclusion conference is an opportunity to showcase all innovative strategies we have implemented since the launch of the National Financial Inclusion 2012 strategy to get us to 51% of Nigerians served by the formal financial system,” he said. Already, 24 million USD has been invested to accelerate the impact of financial and economic inclusion interventions in Nigeria as well as contributions to the increased focus on financial inclusion in Nigeria, convening and supporting stakeholders to develop and work toward the implementation of a National Financial Inclusion Strategy.
Over 5 million Nigerians have been formally included from this investment (about 2 million women inclusive). More than 35,000 agents have been recruited as a result of these innovation fund investments with more than 8,525 women.
