International Women’s Day 2024: Inclusion for All Dialogues 

Another International Women’s Day has passed, and at Inclusion for all, we concluded Women’s Month with the second edition of our I4ALL Dialogues. This year’s theme, “Inspire Inclusion,” resonated deeply with us as we brought together stakeholders from the financial ecosystem to delve into The State of Women’s Financial Access in Today’s Economy. The dialogue […]

Exclusion has face and it is female

This Women’s Month, we’re shedding light on the gender gap in financial inclusion and the gendered effects of poverty that make women more likely to be financially excluded than their male counterparts. According to The 2023 Access to Finance survey, 29% of Nigerians lack NINs, with marginalised groups, including women in rural areas, bearing the […]

Utilizing Data To Accelerate Financial And Economic Inclusion In Nigeria

What we know: Formal inclusion has increased from 56% to 64%, and this is something to celebrate, however, expanding formal access to 64% is only the beginning. We need the ecosystem to do more to give the last mile access, and we need to focus on deepening inclusion for those with access – Savings, pensions […]

Nigerian women financially excluded (2020)

In Nigeria, 21.3 million women are financially excluded (81% are not aware of formal financial access points close to their homes). Of these women, nearly half (23.9 million) use formal financial services. 39.1% (20.9 million) women have a bank account, and over 6 million of the total 21.3 million women who are financially excluded live in rural areas.

Press Release: Inclusion for all research identifies groups most vulnerable to identity exclusion

November 25, 2021 – Lagos: The Inclusion for All initiative, an advocacy programme that seeks to remove the barriers that prevent the financial and economic inclusion of Nigeria’s poorest and most vulnerable communities, has released  its most recent research findings through an open-source data visualisation platform. The Inclusion for All platform allows interested stakeholders to […]