This briefing note presents the summary of the findings of the upcoming Landscape of Micro-insurance in Africa 2012 publication. The study provides up-to-date data on micro-insurance providers, products, distribution channels, and market trends, and includes a high level overview of regulatory developments.

This policy brief offers to African policy makers and other stakeholders involved in the policy making process a set of high priority policy recommendations designed to advance African women’s financial inclusion.

The Report summarizes the roundtable discussions held on The Cross-border Regulation and Supervision of Regional Banks in Africa during the 2012 IMF/World Bank Spring Meetings in Washington, DC.

The African Financial Sector Development Stakeholder Profile Catalogue features factsheets of strategic African public and private institutional stakeholders and key shapers of FSD across the continent. The catalogues aims to present stakeholders and offer greater visibility of their mission and activities.

This document present the report of the first MFW4A Advisory Council Meeting. The Advisory Committee (AC) has recently been established as an additional structure within the MFW4A Partnership. The AC gathers key “shapers” of financial sector development (FSD) in Africa, and includes representatives of Finance Ministries, central banks, the private sector, pan-African bodies and with the donor community (as observers).

MFW4A is pleased to present its first yearly report. During 2011, the Secretariat successfully continued to position the MFW4A Partnership as an emerging leader in the financial sector development policy debate and knowledge dissemination in Africa, while strengthening its internal capacity and setting up the new governance structure for the Partnership. The achievements summarised here represent the combined efforts and valuable inputs of the MFW4A Secretariat and its partners.

The second Partnership Forum was organised by the MFW4A Secretariat in conjunction with the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), with the support of the African Union (AU). The objective of the Forum was to provide a networking platform for African Financial Sector Champions from the Public and Private Sector to take stock of recent developments and discuss current Financial Sector Development Efforts in Africa.

This Policy Brief provides a set of policy recommendations designed to help promote the expansion of agricultural finance in Africa. It is addressed to African policy makers from the broad range of ministries, from central banks and regulatory authorities involved in agricultural finance. It concerns also donors, financial institutions and farmers’ organizations engaging in policy dialogue and advocacy.

In collaboration with the Secretariat of the Association of African Central Banks (AACB), the Partnership for Making Finance Work for Africa (MFW4A) organized a policy workshop on “The African Approach to the Implementation of International Standards for Banking Supervision and the Basel Capital Framework”. The Bank of Uganda (BoU) hosted the workshop from April 28th-29th 2011 in Kampala, Uganda. This brief report summarises the proceedings of the workshop.

This report provides an insight into the lively discussions of the conference, the business cases presented, and the elaboration of the Kampala Principles.

"Financing Africa" is a landmark study on the financial sector in Africa. Using the most recent data available, it documents recent trends in Africa’s financial sectors, progress in the provision of financial services, the state of the continent’s financial services infrastructure, and the efficiency of African financial systems. It takes stock of recent changes and reviews the long-term prospects for African finance and proceeds to provide policy analysis and recommendations for policymakers, development partners, and financial institutions.

Below are the datasets (in Excel) used for the publication's analysis:

Figure Data
Financial Sector Data
Regulatory Framework Data

This document is the executive summary of the upcoming publication "Financing Africa: Through the Crisis and Beyond".

This study reviews the experience of regional financial integration in both the European Union (EU) and in Asia and draws lessons for Africa. It also develops a generic roadmap for Regional Financial Integration (RFI), describing the various stages, their characteristics, policy and institutional requirements.

This paper builds on the 2009 MFW4A Conference “Promoting Financial Capability and Consumer Protection, A Step Forward Towards Financial Inclusion in Africa”. It identifies opportunities for partnership and suggests some innovative new approaches to making progress toward more healthy and sustainable financial inclusion.

Making Finance Work for Africa takes a panoramic view of Africa's financial systems, both at the large scale ("finance for growth") and the smalle scale ("finance for all"). It presents a policy approach that addresses African priorities and can work in African conditions. It challenges the applicability of some conventional views on a range of issues from securities markets and banking regulation to the organization of microfinance institutions.