Greetings from the AFRACA Secretariat. I wish to start the year by extending our heartfelt New Year greetings and expressing sincere appreciation for your support in strengthening the Secretariat. As we enter 2024, I just wanted to pause and take a moment to reflect on some of the key issues that dominated our space in 2023. To start, there was heightened activity...
AFRACA is a member of the Consortium in the Horizon Europe research project, entitled ‘INtegrated and Circular Technologies for Sustainable city region FOOD systems in Africa’ (INCiTiS-FOOD). INCiTiS-FOOD aims to improve food and nutrition security (FNS) in African city regions. With the expansion of urban areas, the distance to rural sites for food production for urban dwellers is increasing, leading to...
The important role of financial cooperatives and other forms of cooperatives in the rural banking system is increasingly gaining prominence. The Government of Kenya underscores cooperatives as key pillars in its Bottom-up Economic Transformation Agenda (BETA). The week-long strategic workshop was convened by the Presidents’ Economic Transformation Secretariat (PETS) in collaboration with the newly formed State Department for Cooperatives and...
In many African countries Central Banks have been the coordinating entity involved to formulating financial inclusion strategies for their respective countries. Tanzania has launched its third framework, the National Financial Inclusion Framework 2023 – 2028, building on the success recorded after the implementation of the second Framework, which ended in December 2022. Implementation of the new framework is expected...
On behalf of the AFRACA network and Executive Committee (EXCOM) we celebrate and express our sincere gratitude to Dr. Jesimen Chipika, Deputy Governor, Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe and Chairlady of the AFRACA Executive Committee for her exemplary service to the Association. Your Bank assumed office in AFRACA as Chair in February 2021 with a new team of Executive Committee Members at...
As Dr. Patrick Njoroge’s tenure came to a close at the Central Bank of Kenya, CBK, AFRACA gives special tribute and remembers his strong commitment and willingness to support the Associations’ activities. Dr. Njoroge was appointed the ninth Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya on June 26, 2015 with his eight year tenure as CBK boss coming to an...
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