{"id":11042,"date":"2021-09-12T12:19:44","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:19:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/?p=11042"},"modified":"2021-09-12T12:19:44","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T12:19:44","slug":"phase-iii-strategy-2021-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/2021\/09\/12\/phase-iii-strategy-2021-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Phase III Strategy 2021-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"11042\" class=\"elementor elementor-11042\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-c427f3d elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"c427f3d\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-481a6bb\" data-id=\"481a6bb\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8672141 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"8672141\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><!-- wp:image {\"align\":\"left\",\"id\":9838,\"width\":261,\"height\":370,\"sizeSlug\":\"large\",\"linkDestination\":\"none\"} --><\/p><div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/afr.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AFR-Phase-III-Strategy-Summary-12-pages-print-05.03.21-1.pdf\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-11046\" src=\"https:\/\/afr.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-12-at-14.24.06-min.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/afr.rw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AFR-Phase-III-Strategy-Summary-12-pages-print-05.03.21-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOWNLOAD THE PDF<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><p><!-- \/wp:image --><\/p><p><!-- wp:paragraph --><\/p><p>Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) is a Rwandan not for profit organisation established in 2010 by the UK\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) in partnership with the Government of Rwanda. AFR is currently funded by FCDO, USAID, MasterCard Foundation and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA). It is one of nine members in the Financial Sector Deepening (FSD) Network across Sub Saharan Africa.<\/p><p>AFR\u2019s strategic focus is to stimulate financial sector development by partnering with financial institutions and other stakeholders to increase access to and use of financial services. It is guided by the making Markets Work for the Poor (M4P) approach recognising that efforts to increase financial inclusion must be carried out by market actors to be sustainable. AFR identifies and intervenes to address constraints that prevent the financial sector from serving Rwanda\u2019s low-income population through promoting innovations and learning that result in sustainable change. Improving access to financial services for the rural poor, women and youth is of particular focus. AFR supports the Government of Rwanda\u2019s development objectives by aligning its interventions to national policy frameworks including the Financial Sector Development Programme (FSDP) II, and the National Strategy for Transformation 2017-2024.<\/p><p>During Phase I (2010-2015) and Phase II (2016-2020) AFR played a pivotal role to facilitate positive change in Rwanda\u2019s financial sector through its partnerships with the public and private sector leading to increased financial inclusion and enhancing livelihood opportunities for poor women and men.<\/p><p>This document summarises AFR\u2019s Phase III strategy and covers the period 2021 to 2025. It builds on the outputs and achievements building markets for sustainable financial sector development from Phases 1 and II and is based on an analysis of constraints and opportunities informed by:<\/p><p><!-- \/wp:paragraph --><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d6b7e43 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d6b7e43\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;,&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-1836ce9\" data-id=\"1836ce9\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-a62a0c3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"a62a0c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"553\" src=\"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-12-at-14.21.30-min.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-11044\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-12-at-14.21.30-min.png 1600w, https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-12-at-14.21.30-min-1024x354.png 1024w, https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Screen-Shot-2021-09-12-at-14.21.30-min-768x265.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Access to Finance Rwanda (AFR) is a Rwandan not for profit organisation established in 2010 by the UK\u2019s Foreign, Commonwealth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11046,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afr.rw\/version-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}