Africa-Press – Angola. The National Bank of Angola (BNA), through its Southern Regional Directorate, held a public consultation on Friday in Lubango, Huíla, on the process of drafting the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion (ENIF), which aims to raise the levels of literacy and financial inclusion among the population.
According to the BNA’s regional director for the South, Ana Covilhã, the institution is promoting a series of lectures in the country from March 31st to the 30th, aimed at collecting contributions that will help improve the levels of inclusion and financial literacy of families and companies.
Ana Covilhã highlighted that a diagnosis carried out by the BNA in recent months indicates that only 32 percent of the Angolan population over the age of 15 has at least one bank account, of which around two thirds are male, which reveals the need for widespread national financial literacy and inclusion.
The same study, she adds, reveals that of this universe of the banked population, only five percent has access to credit.
The aim is for the country to have more banked citizens, and priority in this process goes to women, the rural population, farmers, adolescents and young people and informal workers.
The preparation of the ENIF proposal had the technical and methodological support of the World Bank and the collaboration of several public and private organizations, as well as financial institutions and other social partners.
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