Financial inclusion policies and regulations have a critical role to play in addressing the unique challenges that FDPs face and in ensuring that collective efforts can sustain for the long term. Different key stakeholders in the ecosystem contribute to the development and implementation of such polices and regulations, and these include customer identification and verification regulations, policies for financial literacy and education, and other innovative policy solutions that comply with financial integrity, financial stability and consumer protection global standards.

The session will spotlight concrete examples from the MENA, LAC and Sub-Saharan African regions and will demonstrate that financial inclusion policy can only be impactful if there is strong multi-stakeholder coordination, regular sex- and age- disaggregated data collection, due consideration of the digital divide, and broader enabling policies for FDPs such as the right to free movement and decent employment.