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Grow Digital:  
Leveraging digital transformation to drive sustainable food systems in Africa.

Join us at the 2019 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF). Together, we will identify and catalyse the enabling policies, programmes, and investments to leverage digital transformation to drive sustainable food systems in Africa. Given the unprecedented growth and adoption of digital technologies, Africa has an opportunity to leapfrog the agricultural transformation trajectory of the past and revolutionise life by overcoming isolation, speeding up change, creating jobs of the future, and taking success to scale.

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September 3-6, 2019
Accra, Ghana

About AGRF
AGRF is considered the world’s premier forum for African agriculture, bringing together stakeholders in the agricultural landscape to take practical actions and share lessons that will move African agriculture forward.

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We are looking forward to advancing the financial inclusion objectives of the AFI community and we are excited to announce that the National Bank of Rwanda (NBR) and the Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI) will host the 2019 AFI Global Policy Forum (GPF) from 11-13 September 2019 in Kigali, Rwanda.

Hailed for its gender equality policies and equal participation of women in all spheres of life, the 2019 GPF aims to showcase the experience of Rwanda and highlight how the use of technology will bring progress in financial inclusion of the most vulnerable groups, especially women and youth.

Since the adoption of the Denarau Action Plan (DAP) at the 2016 GPF, AFI members have pledged to cut the gender gap in half by 2021 within their respective jurisdictions. The 2019 GPF is an occasion to take stock of the progress made and set out steps ahead to reach the goal of halving the financial inclusion gender gap. We will also share and discuss how AFI members are developing and implementing youth-specific financial inclusion policies, as well as what are the commitments we need to make as a global policy leadership alliance to make financial inclusion related services and products more accessible to youth.

Official invitations and a logistics note providing all necessary details will be sent out prior to the event. In the meantime, we would be most grateful if you could save these dates.

The National Bank of Rwanda and AFI look forward to welcoming you to Remarkable Rwanda in September 2019.

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According to expert reports, agriculture sector in Africa is the least productive in the world. Small-scale and subsistence farmers, pastoralists, and fishermen produce most of the food consumed in this region, yet they continue to face a number of challenges. Lack of capital for investment contributes significantly to the lowering of small scale farmers’ productivity levels.

How can formal financial institutions provide agricultural credit that meets the unique demands of the entire agricultural?

Topics

1. Strategies for Overcoming Barriers to Agricultural Financing 

2. Climate
How can innovation minimize agriculture’s contribution to climate change?

3. An Untapped Market
High-Saving Youth & Women- solutions to meet market segment

4.Public-private partnerships
Which solutions will cuts costs, increase efficiency, improve risk management, and galvanize the continent’s agricultural sector?

Tools and frameworks for FSPs to better understand rural customers

5. Unlocking Agribusiness Initiatives and skills
This session will explore on business Initiatives and skills put in place to enable farmers to think like business people

6. Rural and Agricultural Finance: Current Status and Recent Trends 
Differences and Overlaps: Rural, Agricultural and Micro Finance
Specific Challenges for Financial Service Provision in Rural Areas
Changing Paradigms in Rural Finance
Key Areas and Hotspots

7. Financial products and services 
Lending and Leasing
Payment Services and Remittances
Payment Services and Remittances

8. Institutions
Agricultural Development Banks
Member-Based Financial Institutions

9. Delivery Methods
Value Chain Financing
Banking beyond Branches

Why Attend?
•Learn strategic financial business solutions
•Network with your colleagues
•Share ideas
•Meet with financially related business partners
•Understand how your daily decisions impact the company profitability
•Discuss the current financial market and its impact on agribusiness

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Building on the success of the 2018 GIIN Investor Forum in Paris, which convened over 1,200 active and aspiring impact investors from over 80 countries, the 2019 Forum will present delegates with the opportunity to build relationships, share insights about new strategies, discover the latest industry developments, and explore ways to drive continued momentum and growth in the market. Further event details to come.

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The 2019 Cracking the Nut conference will take place on  October 14-15, 2019 at the King Fahd Palace Hotel in Dakar, Senegal. The conference will focus on balancing public concerns for food security with private, market-based solutions. Connexus is working with Catholic Relief Services (CRS) to organize this two‐day learning event, which will highlight how public and private sector initiatives can be leveraged to stimulate rural and agricultural development, in a way that improves food security.

Cracking the Nut 2019 will provide a demand‐driven, collaborative learning space where participants share experiences and best practices on innovative approaches to expanding agricultural production, increasing rural incomes and the poor’s access to nutritious food and clean water. This will include methodologies, strategies and tools;  networks  for  partnership and coordinated collaboration;  and  insights into the opportunities and threats facing  developing  countries today. English and French simultaneous interpretation will be available.

Applying a food systems lens, this two-day learning event will bring together some of the world’s leading experts in rural development, sustainable agriculture, water sanitation, health and nutrition, including representatives from the  private  sector, governments, donors and development practitioners to discuss the “tough nuts” related to food security, including the themes highlighted below.

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Background

The inclusive insurance sector has experienced persistent growth in client outreach and premium volumes over the past ten years. Today, nearly 300 million low-income citizens in developing countries are covered by an insurance policy. New technologies are boosting market coverage. In Asia alone, the number of people insured through mobile phones exceeds 40 million. Furthermore, the G7 has decided to insure 400 million people against climate risks by 2020. Nonetheless, many people are still without cover or alternative risk management options. With the global middle class expected to grow to nearly five billion within two decades, we are looking at billions of people who are without a formal safety net from insurance and hence at risk of falling (back) into poverty.

The need to respond to this situation by understanding the role of insurance for sustainable development and the management of climate risks, improving supply, heightening the awareness of insurance, creating the right regulatory framework and better understanding the particular needs of the low income population is the main focus of the conference. Representatives from insurance and reinsurance companies, distribution channels, investment funds, international organisations, NGOs and development-aid agencies, as well as academics, policymakers and supervisory regulators, from around 50 countries will attend the conference. Attendees will exchange views on current growth trends and risks in emerging markets and discuss key factors for successful implementation and maximised business opportunities to bring supply and demand to the next level.

Structure and objectives of the conference 

The conference will feature panel discussions on key topics addressing an interdisciplinary audience. Additional working group sessions will deal in depth with subtopics. Interactive sessions hosted by partner organisations of the 15th International Conference on Inclusive Insurance will be a key part of the conference, facilitating dialogue in small groups on emerging issues. Keynote speeches will look at the latest international, national and local insights.

Conference language

English

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