AFI GIF Ambassador - National Bank of Rwanda

SPECIAL FEATURE AFI GENDER INCLUSIVE FINANCE AMBASSADOR INSTITUTION

NATIONAL BANK OF RWANDA

National Bank of Rwanda committed to a gender responsive National Financial Inclusion Strategy and reduction of the financial inclusion gender gap from 11 in 2016 to 5.5 percentage points on access to formal financial services

Specific measures promoting women's financial inclusion and M&E indicators focusing on women are included in National Bank of Rwanda’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy

National Bank of Rwanda collects both demand- and supply- side sexdisaggregated data. Data was used to identify barriers to women’s financial inclusion and established initiatives to address these such as a Women’s Guarantee Fund

Hon. Soraya Munyana Hakuziyaremye was appointed Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda on March 15, 2021

National Bank of Rwanda served as an inaugural member of the Gender Inclusive Finance Committee for two terms (2017 – 2019)

National Bank of Rwanda participated in the 2019 and 2020 cohorts and worked on promoting the collection, use and dissemination of sexdisaggregated data in its decision-making process