Bangladesh’s 2021-2026 National Financial Inclusion Strategy

Congratulations to Bangladesh Bank and the Ministry of Finance of Bangladesh on the launch of their first National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS), which spans a time period from 1 July 2021 to 30 June 2026.

As an AFI member and signatory to the Maya Declaration, Bangladesh Bank took the initiative of developing an NFIS in 2014, which now has resulted in a fully-fledged NFIS which embeds, among others, green finance in the NFIS goals and targets. The vision and objectives of this strategy into a concrete action plan entail a set of 12 goals consisting of 69 targets that have been marked to drive future developments in financial inclusion.