Advancing the Financial Inclusion of Forcibly Displaced Persons: Case Studies on Rwanda, Mauritania and Afghanistan

Despite grappling with already existing hurdles in economic development, the National Bank of Rwanda, Banque Centrale de Mauritanie and Da Afghanistan Bank have begun to work towards transforming their policies and breaking silos in multi-stakeholder coordination to ensure forcibly displaced persons (FDPs) are no longer financially excluded.

The collection of case studies present a stocktaking and examination of each of the three AFI members’ progress in advancing FDP financial inclusion, namely the policy and regulatory barriers that remain, the opportunities, and potential ways forward.