3rd African Microfinance Conference
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MABS Deputy Chief of Party Meliza H. Agabin attended the 3rd African Microfinance Conference held in Kampala, Uganda on August 20-23, as a conference speaker on the MABS-designed mobile phone banking services in the Philippines. More than 400 participants from microfinance institutions all over Africa, donor agencies, and invited speakers from the international organizations attended the conference. A range of topics were covered in the conference including: policy and regulatory framework in different African states, value chain analysis for agriculture, new approaches and methodologies for reaching those currently unbanked, market segmentation, and application of technologies for improving access to financial services.
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Ms. Agabin presented the RBAP-MABS Program’s initiative on mobile phone banking for rural banks and their clients before a breakout session attended by more than 200 participants. While mobile phone banking has been tried in a few African countries, such as Kenya, the banking applications that the MABS program has developed using the GCash platform of Globe Telecom appears to be in a relatively advanced stage, and generated a lot of interest among the participants.
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