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Navigating Uganda's regulatory landscape: Ensuring consumer protection through robust legal and regulatory frameworks
Uganda’s financial consumer protection involves multiple regulators, each with unique roles and challenges. We explore the regulatory landscape, highlighting key institutions and discussing the need for better coordination, enforcement, and public awareness to ensure fair and effective consumer protection across the financial sector.
Navigating the pitfalls: 3 consumer challenges in Uganda's Financial Consumer Protection
Uganda's financial landscape is booming, with mobile money leading the surge in financial inclusion. However, this progress demands robust consumer protection measures to prevent financial harm.
Advancing digital inclusion: Policy Accelerator's five-year journey
UNCDF's Policy Accelerator program emerges as a critical partner to governments, co-orchestrating a symphony of policy change across Africa, Asia, and the Pacific.
Analysis: The National Economic and Financial Committee (CNEF) is an essential actor for financial inclusion in Cameroun
To make the National Inclusive Finance Strategy a reality for all Cameroonians, the CNEF is at the forefront, resolutely committed to the protection of financial consumers. Learn more about its key projects and why UNCDF is supporting its work.
Bridging the digital divide: Webinar series on advancing financial inclusion
IE Africa Center and the UNCDF Policy Accelerator have partnered to co-create a series of thought-provoking and insightful webinars that aim to bridge the digital divide and advance financial inclusion for all, with a special focus on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection in the digital financial ecosystem.
Digital Financial Services: 14 actions to increase inclusion and protection
As new and underserved groups start using Digital Financial Services (DFS), each sector plays a vital role in creating a web of inclusion, accountability and protection.
New report unveils pathway to accelerate women's digital financial inclusion in Central Africa
UNCDF and Flutterwave join forces to ensure women's voices are included during the policymaking process on digital financial services. In June 2021, our CEMAC advisory panel shared 23 proposals for accelerating women’s financial inclusion with regulators and public decision-makers in the region. Read the full report here.
Watch the webinar: Why a gender lens matters for financial consumer protection
For World's Consumer Rights Day 2022, UNCDF convened civil society representatives from Gabon and Nigeria and a regulator from Sierra Leone to share their views on how digital financial services can better serve their purpose and why a gender lens matters for Financial Consumer Protection.
Join us: Why a gender lens matters for financial consumer protection
Join us on World Consumers Rights Day for a lively discussion with representatives from West and Central Africa on why a gender lens is critical to financial consumer protection — and how to increase protection for all consumers.
Resources for bringing people together in the policymaking process
We believe people directly impacted by policy change must participate in its design. Women — and groups representing women — have an important role to play. (Resources below.)
CEMAC panel: 23 proposals to accelerate the financial inclusion of women in Central Africa
Women in the CEMAC region are still largely excluded from the formal financial sector. In June 2021, our CEMAC advisory panel shared 23 proposals for accelerating women’s financial inclusion with regulators and public decision-makers in the region. Now they are collaborating to turn these recommendations into changes to policy and regulation.
CEMAC panel interview series: Annick Raissa SUMO DOGUEN and Marie Elise PIDJOU KAMGA DOMBISSI
CEMAC panelists Annick Raissa SUMO DOGUEN and Marie Elise PIDJOU KAMGA DOMBISSI share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Mohamadou BADIAGA and Josiane Sylvie MBAKOP NOUKEU
CEMAC panelists Mohamadou BADIAGA and Josiane Sylvie MBAKOP NOUKEU share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Marie-Pierre NYATANYI and Isabelle CUISENIER-KOUZOU
CEMAC panelists Marie-Pierre NYATANYI and Isabelle CUISENIER-KOUZOU share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Love Vera GOZION EKOUME and Carlos WAFO
CEMAC panelists Love Vera GOZION and Carlos WAFO of Cameroun share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Delphine NOUIND and Antoinette MANGARAL KOUDJAL
CEMAC panelists Delphine NOUIND and Antoinette MANGARAL KOUDJAL share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Agnès OUNOUNOU
CEMAC panelist Agnes OUNOUNOU shares her perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Diane NDEUNA and Nadine KAMGA MBEKO
CEMAC panelists Diane NDEUNA and Nadine KAMGA MBEKO share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Sorel MOUAFO and Justin Jules KOUTETE
CEMAC panelists Sorel MOUAFO and Justin Jules KOUTETE share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.
CEMAC panel interview series: Gislaine MAMPOUYA MACKIZA and Christian Richard ABIAGHE NGOMO
CEMAC panelists Gislaine MAMPOUYA MACKIZA and Christian Richard ABIAGHE NGOMO share their perspective on women's financial inclusion and consumer protection.