Côte d'Ivoire has demonstrated a commitment toward financial inclusion, including an aim to reach a 60% inclusion rate by 2024, as well as to gradually digitize 80% of the government’s financial flows. To offer support and seek out opportunities to collaborate, the UNSGSA and her partners recently conducted a virtual country visit.
Country Visits
Argentina Illustrates Need for Access to Finance
The Special Advocate often observes that financial inclusion is a universal issue, one that needs to be addressed in every country. The situation in Argentina illustrates her point with great clarity.
Although Argentina is a middle-income country with the third-largest economy in Latin America,… Read more
October 12, 2016
Queen Máxima to visit Argentina to promote access to financial services
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From Tuesday 11 to Wednesday 12 October Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will visit Argentina in her role as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). In the capital… Read more
October 4, 2016
Technology Helps Accelerate Financial Inclusion in Indonesia
Indonesia’s dynamic growth over the last 15 years has helped cut poverty in more than half. Still, 40 percent linger right above the poverty line, their economic prospects in need of further protection. To build further on this progress, the government has made a commitment to extend financial… Read more
September 1, 2016
Special Advocate Traveling to Indonesia to Discuss Financial Inclusion
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As Indonesia takes increasingly strong steps to build financial inclusion, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA)—H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands—will visit to the country… Read more
August 25, 2016
UN Special Advocate Queen Máxima to Visit Pakistan to Discuss Financial Inclusion
H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA), will visit Pakistan 9–11 February 2016 to promote financial inclusion and support the implementation of the country’s National Financial Inclusion Strategy. Launched in… Read more
February 4, 2016
Special Advocate Visits Bangladesh to Promote Access to Financial Services
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H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will visit Bangladesh from Monday 16 to Wednesday 18 November in her role as the UN Secretary-General's Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance at the invitation of the Bangladeshi government.
This will be… Read more
November 12, 2015
Special Advocate Visiting Philippines for Launch of National Financial Inclusion Strategy
In her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, Queen Máxima will visit the Philippines from 29 June to 1 July. She will meet with a wide range of leaders from public and private sectors and with clients, and will participate in the launch of… Read more
June 24, 2015
Special Advocate Visiting Myanmar to Advance Financial Inclusion
Queen Máxima in Myanmar with the UN Resident Coordinator Renata Lok-Dessallien. Photo credit: UNDP Myanmar
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development, H.M. Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, has arrived in Myanmar… Read more
March 30, 2015
Special Advocate to Visit China to Discuss Access to Financial Services
From Monday 24 November to Friday 28 November, Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands will visit China in her capacity as the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for Development (UNSGSA). China is taking various measures to improve access to financial services in… Read more
November 17, 2014
A Meeting of Minds Over Financial Inclusion in India
The Special Advocate visited a water ATM project in India, which dispenses fresh water in the manner of an ATM.
The UNSGSA met with the newly appointed minister of finance, the governor and leaders of the Reserve Bank of India, non-bank financial… Read more
July 31, 2014
Extending Financial Inclusion in Colombia
In her keynote address at the presentation of Colombia’s National Strategy for Financial Inclusion, Queen Máxima congratulated the Government on the progress it has made over the past ten years. Now, Colombia is entering a second phase of financial inclusion, in which the emphasis should be on… Read more
March 5, 2014
A new national framework for financial inclusion will help Tanzania achieve its goals
"I really commend Tanzania for its ambition to include 50% of the population in the formal financial system by 2015." - UNSGSA
In her keynote address at the Launch of the National Financial Inclusion Framework the UNSGSA noted the rapid progress in Tanzania since her last visit in 2010, and… Read more
December 13, 2013