AFI Financial Inclusion Data Working Group (FIDWG) will hold its 13th meeting on 5-7 April 2016 in San Salvador, El Salvador.

The event is co-hosted by the Banco Central de Reserva de El Salvador (BCR), and is expected to bring together more than 30 FIDWG members, along with key external stakeholders and partners from around the globe.

Attendees will discuss the role of data as a cross-cutting issue with implications across every financial inclusion policy area. The agenda includes various data challenges related to gender, national strategies, digital financial services, green finance and other financial inclusion topics that loom on the horizon.

FIDWG’s role has been, and will continue to be, central to the efforts of the network to promote successful evidence-based financial inclusion policy solutions, according to Charles Marwa, Senior Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist at AFI.

“FIDWG will be an important factor to reaching successful resolutions in all these areas, a fact that will be reflected in our working group’s three-year strategy, which will begin to take shape at this week’s meeting,” said Marwa.

FIDWG is dedicated to promoting and sharing information on the topic of financial inclusion measurement. This group leverages current progress and learning from AFI members and practitioners around the world.