The G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) has circulated a draft 2025 annual work plan under South Africa’s G20 Presidency, setting out three expected deliverables aligned to the G20 2023 Financial Inclusion Action Plan: a diagnostic study and policy recommendations on “Moving from Access to Usage” of financial products and services, work on new and innovative technology and solutions for digital financial inclusion, and an implementation framework for the 2024 G20 GPFI Action Plan for MSME Financing. The “Access to Usage” deliverable is scoped to (i) describe and quantify the global problem using Findex and other demand- and supply-side surveys, including trends since 2011 and factors such as literacy, trust and infrastructure gaps, (ii) define a usage measurement framework across transactional accounts, payments, credit, insurance, savings and remittances, and (iii) synthesize policy recommendations based on best practices from countries that have moved from access to beneficial usage; the work is led by the World Bank with Women’s World Banking, the Better Than Cash Alliance and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion. The digital financial inclusion deliverable envisages mapping the global deployment of digital financial services using technologies including open finance, open banking, central bank digital currencies and AI/ML, alongside approaches to leverage digital solutions for “quality inclusion”, with the exact deliverable and responsible implementing partner still to be defined. For MSME finance, the implementation framework will be supported by a simplified voluntary self-assessment questionnaire for countries and an online webinar with a summary note, led by IFC-SMEFF and the World Bank in collaboration with the OECD; the work plan also includes continuing actions on remittances, including revising the National Remittance Plan template and possible outputs such as updated plans and reporting against the G20 Remittance Target. The work plan sets out the 2025 GPFI calendar, including a (tentative) second plenary meeting on 19–23 May 2025, a third plenary on 8–12 September 2025, and G20 Finance Track meetings through October 2025 ahead of a Leaders’ Summit in November 2025.
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G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion publishes draft 2025 work plan spanning access-to-usage diagnostics, digital inclusion technologies and MSME finance implementation
The G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion (GPFI) has released a draft 2025 work plan under South Africa’s G20 Presidency, focusing on financial inclusion deliverables aligned with the G20 2023 Financial Inclusion Action Plan. Key initiatives include a diagnostic study on transitioning from access to usage of financial products, exploration of digital financial inclusion technologies, and an implementation framework for MSME financing. The plan outlines the 2025 GPFI calendar, including plenary and G20 Finance Track meetings leading up to the Leaders’ Summit in November 2025.