Abuja, Nigeria – 21 August 2025 – Ladies’s World Banking (WWB), in partnership with the Presidential Committee on Financial and Monetary Inclusion (PreCEFI), convened a high-level Stakeholders’ Workshop on Ladies’s Digital Monetary Inclusion (WDFI). The convening instantly helps Nigeria’s aspiration to construct a Trillion-Greenback Economic system by unlocking ladies’s full financial potential by elevated entry to and utilization of monetary providers.
The interactive workshop explored collaborative partnerships in advancing WDFI in Nigeria bringing collectively stakeholders from private and non-private sector, together with the Central Financial institution of Nigeria (CBN), Nigeria Inter-Financial institution Settlement System (NIBSS), Nationwide Insurance coverage Fee (NAICOM), Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC), Financial institution of Business (BOI), Deposit Cash Banks, Microfinance Establishments, FinTechs, and Growth Finance Establishments (DFIs).
The occasion was in furtherance of Nigeria’s nationwide financial and monetary inclusion targets of reaching 95% monetary inclusion and shutting the 9% gender hole in entry to monetary providers. Stakeholders acknowledged that ladies’s financial empowerment is central to inclusive progress, poverty discount, and reaching macroeconomic stability. Talking as chief host, Dr. Nurudeen Zauro, Technical Advisor on Financial and Monetary Inclusion to the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, emphasised that the synergy between PreCEFI and Ladies’s World Banking is plain. Each prioritize listening to ladies, designing providers round their realities, and scaling affect. He additionally famous that the workshop was about aligning nationwide and world methods to speed up progress in direction of Nigeria’s Trillion-Greenback Economic system aspiration.
Uche Uzoebo, CEO of SANEF, counseled Ladies’s World Banking on the partnership and for convening the occasion. She highlighted that SANEF’s collaboration with WWB is crucial as it should speed up the penetration of agent banking, significantly in Northern Nigeria, thereby rising the variety of ladies with entry to monetary providers.
In her remarks, Elizabeth Gathai, Regional Head, Africa, Ladies’s World Banking, emphasised Nigeria’s potential to steer Africa in ladies’s financial empowerment—boosting entry to productive credit score, halving monetary exclusion within the North, and driving gender-intentional insurance policies that shut the hole. She reaffirmed WWB’s dedication to constructing a extra resilient and inclusive monetary system for girls.” Different key contributors on the occasion embrace Dr. Aisha Isa-Olatinwo, CBN Director Shopper Safety & Monetary Inclusion Dr. Rakiya Yusuf CBN Director Fee Programs Supervision Division, and Ngover Ihyembe-Nwankwo Government Director NIBSS amongst others.
A Key spotlight of the occasion was the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between Ladies’s World Banking and SANEF to broaden the agent banking footprint and productiveness for girls in Northern Nigeria. The MoU, witnessed by Dr. Zauro, Head of PreCEFI, signifies a concrete step towards delivering the federal government’s inclusive finance commitments and guaranteeing that ladies are usually not left behind within the digital economic system.
About PreCEFI:
PreCEFI, the Presidential Committee on Financial and Monetary Inclusion, is a Nigerian inter-agency activity pressure established by the Federal Authorities in February 2025 to speed up financial reforms and bridge monetary gaps, with a key give attention to delivering money transfers to fifteen million susceptible households and aligning stakeholders on monetary inclusion methods. Its aim is to enhance entry to financial alternatives and providers, foster inclusive progress, and help the nation’s goal of reaching a trillion-dollar economic system by 2030.
About Ladies’s World Banking:
For over 45 years, Ladies’s World Banking has been devoted to serving the almost 1 billion ladies excluded by the formal monetary sector. As an NGO, we accomplice with monetary establishments and policymakers to design, develop and implement options and packages that facilitate systemic change for girls. As an investor, we advance ladies within the office and as clients by direct fairness – to deliver them safety, prosperity, and independence. Since 2018 Ladies’s World Banking has reached greater than 86 million ladies serving to to vary not solely their lives but additionally of their households, communities, and international locations. To be taught extra about Ladies’s World Banking, go to womensworldbanking.org.
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