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The Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI)〔(Alliance for Financial Inclusion Official Website )〕 is a network of financial inclusion policymakers. AFI's core mission is to encourage the adoption of inclusive financial policies in developing nations, to lift 2.5 billion citizens out of poverty. AFI was founded in 2008 as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project,〔(Gates Foundation Financial Services for the Poor Partners Page )〕 supported by AusAid,〔Report to AusAID about the use of funding received in support of AFI's activities on the GPFI ()〕 in order to advance the development of smart financial inclusion policy in developing and emerging countries. AFI's network has more than 100 institutions from more than 89 member nations. AFI utilizes a peer-to-peer learning model to connect, encourage and enable financial policymakers to interact and exchange knowledge on policy initiatives such as consumer protection, mobile financial services,〔(Financial Times: Banking Goes Mobile in Mexico )〕 financial integrity, agent banking, formalizing microsavings, data and measurement, and general financial inclusion. AFI has pioneered regional approaches to knowledge exchange among policymakers and stakeholders worldwide, notably within the Pacific Islands,〔United Nations Capital Development Fund: AFI Pacific Islands Working Group Prioritizes Consumer Protection for 2012 ()〕 Africa〔Mobile Money Africa: African Policymakers Launch Groundbreaking Mobile Financial Services Initiative AMPI ()〕 and Latin America. This information interchange is intended to result in the building of a more comprehensive knowledge base on financial inclusion, and the subsequent formulation and implementation of effective policy by members in their home countries. AFI administers several types of financial inclusion policy related activities, including a membership program, the convening of working groups, the provision of grants, and a Policy Champions Program. It also hosts the annual AFI Global Policy Forum (GPF), the most important and most comprehensive forum for regulatory institutions with an interest in promoting financial inclusion policy, and championed the Maya Declaration, the first global and measurable set of financial inclusion commitments by developing and emerging country governments. AFI is headquartered in Bangkok, Thailand. The Executive Director is Alfred Hannig of Germany, who has held the post since 2008. The organization is financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation〔(Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation: Illustrative Grants Commitment )〕 and administered on behalf of its members by the German Technical Corporation and is based in Thailand.〔 The organization has three working languages: English, French and Spanish. == History == The Alliance for Financial Inclusion was founded in 2008 as a Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded project to advance the development of smart financial inclusion policies in developing and emerging countries. Bank Indonesia (BI), Bank of Thailand (BOT), Central Bank of Kenya (CBK), Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP), Superintendencia de Banca, Seguros (SBS) y AFP de Peru and Comisión Nacional Bancaria y de Valores (CNBV) of Mexico comprised the core group of six members. In 2010, the Group of 20 nominated AFI as one of three implementing partners for the Group of 20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI). In this role, the AFI brings innovative policies for increasing access to financial services from developing countries to the wider Group of 20 forum and helps non-Group of 20 developing country policymakers participate in the GPFI work.〔(Australian Government AusAid )〕 In 2011, AFI members collectively adopted the Maya Declaration, a statement of intent to make financial inclusion a centerpiece of national efforts for poverty reduction and economic stability. More than 30 AFI members then went a step further by announcing specific and measurable commitments. In recognition of these developments, both the G20 and the Group of 24 highlighted the AFI learning model and the Maya Declaration as key steps toward global economic development. (And as recently as April 2013, the G20 has urged members to commit to the Maya Declaration.)〔(G20 Official Outcome Statement, Article 10 )〕 In 2012, at the Global Policy Forum (GPF), members of the AFI Network began a process to transform AFI from a short-term project into a permanent member-funded international organization. In 2013, AFI reached 100 member institutions overall with the addition of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago.〔(The Trinidad and Tobago Guardian: Central Bank of T&T joins AFI )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alliance for Financial Inclusion」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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