Read #UNSGSA Queen Máxima’s op-ed “Embracing financial inclusion and financial health for national progress”, in today’s Philstar.com: philstar.com/the-freeman/op…

In the Philippines, with over 7,000 islands, achieving financial inclusion poses significant challenges, especially for hard-to-reach segments like island communities. #UNSGSA Queen Máxima met w/ local fishermen on Talim Island today to hear how DFS helps some of the community.

Watch: In the #Philippines, #UNSGSA Queen Máxima talks #financialinclusion progress and shares insights from visits to the field, including how digital financial services are helping fisherfolk access insurance to build resilience to shocks. Bangko Sentral UN Philippines

Today in Manila, #UNSGSA Queen Máxima visits GCash (GCash). The Special Advocate heard about how GCash and partners like Mayani are supporting farmers and fishers in building greater financial resilience to disaster and climate risks in the #Philippines. Bangko Sentral

This morning #UNSGSA Queen Máxima held a roundtable with development partners to discuss financial inclusion in the Philippines. The focus was on understanding challenges and opportunities to support the UNSGSA’s advocacy. UN Philippines

#UNSGSA Queen Máxima and President Bongbong Marcos had a fruitful discussion about boosting #financialinclusion in the Philippines, creating financial health metrics, and improving resilience for farmers and fishers. #FinancialHealth #Philippines @bangkosentral

Dialogue between UNSGSA Queen Máxima and President Bongbong Marcos included #financialinclusion foundational building blocks, such as connectivity, as well as how to help Filipinos improve their financial health and build resilience to climate shocks. Bangko Sentral

At Ateneo de Manila University, #UNSGSA Queen Máxima spoke with several presenters on DPI, including MediMate, an Ateneo student-designed app to harmonize medical health records.

We were pleased to welcome UN SG's Special Advocate Queen Máxima Queen Máxima to our headquarters today. The Queen met with ADB President Masa Asakawa to discuss how financial exclusion — an issue that affects women, small and medium-sized companies, and other disadvantaged groups — exacerbates poverty and

Today in a press conference at @bangkosentral in Manila alongside Governor Dr. Eli M. Remolona Jr., #UNSGSA Queen Máxima emphasized the importance of ensuring that access to financial services also results in increased financial health for Filipinos.

On her final day in the #Philippines, #UNSGSA Queen Máxima underscored during a press conference at Bangko Sentral the importance of ensuring that access to financial services also results in increased financial health for Filipinos. UN Philippines bit.ly/3yKMw56

Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands, the #UNSGSA, delivered a pre-recorded keynote address today at the #IAISGlobalSeminar2024 on the key role insurance plays in building financial resilience and supporting #FinancialHealth. youtube.com/watch?v=9o_Pt1…

UNSG Ban Ki-moon appointed Princess Máxima in 2009 as his Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance #UNSGSA. At that time, universal access to financial services was still a bold vision. In the run-up to the 15-year UNSGSA event , we will mark 15 milestones in #financialinclusion.

With support from the Gates Foundation, the UNSGSA office was established at the UN in 2010. That same year, the #UNSGSA presented her first annual report to UN-SG Ban Ki-moon. The office supports the work of the UNSGSA and facilitates partnerships to advance financial inclusion.

2011 World Bank Global Findex, initiated by #UNSGSA, shows 51% account ownership worldwide. #UNSGSA visits Egypt and Mali, leads the first meeting with Bank for International Settlements and global SSBs on #financialinclusion and becomes Honorary Patron of G20 Global Partnership for Financial Inclusion.

At the 2012 G20 Leaders’ Summit in Los Cabos, Mexico, 17 nations commit to #financialinclusion strategies. As the Honorary Patron of the #GPFI, the #UNSGSA welcomes this as an important step towards worldwide access to #financialservices and economic development.

“Financial inclusion is a means to an end, not an end in itself,” says the #UNSGSA. As part of the 2013 United Nations MDG Report, #financialinclusion is now firmly on the global development agenda as an enabler of positive development outcomes, especially for the world’s most vulnerable.

The #UNSGSA deepens partnerships with Food and Agriculture Organization, International Fund for Agricultural Development & World Food Programme after visiting Ethiopia & Tanzania in 2013 with the United Nations agency heads & advocating for #inclusivefinance for #foodsecurity & #ruraldevelopment. ©FAO/IFAD/WFP/Daniel Hayduk/Eliza Deacon

In 2015, #financialinclusion is identified as an enabler of 7 of the 17 #SDGs. Basel Committee on Banking Supervision develops guidance on application of Core Principles relevant to #financialinclusion & the #UNSGSA addresses #financialinnovation Bank for International Settlements All-Governors Meeting.

#DigitalFinancialServices create opportunities but need responsible oversight. In 2016, the #UNSGSA leads the launch of the #G20 #GPFI Digital Finance Principles, enabling more innovative digital financial products and services to reach underserved groups