Africa-Press – Angola. The National Bank of Angola (BNA), through its Southern Regional Directorate, has been collecting contributions from various economic agents since Friday to draft the National Strategy for Financial Inclusion, which aims to increase the population’s levels of literacy and financial inclusion. The regional director of the National Bank of Angola, Ana Covilhã, who presented the programme, said that the strategy must be within everyone’s reach in order to guarantee the well-being of both families and companies in various sectors.
The BNA’s National Strategy for Financial Inclusion includes, among others, financial institutions, state and private bodies and members of civil society, and the contributions to be collected must reflect the national reality of financial literacy.According to the regional director of the National Bank of Angola, Ana Covilhã, the institution has been holding a series of talks in the country since March 31st to the 30th, with the aim of collecting contributions to help improve national levels of financial inclusion and literacy for the well-being of both families and companies.
A number of portals have been made available for collecting contributions to this end.
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 highlights 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 objective, he pointed out, is for the country to have more citizens with bank accounts, and the priority in this process goes to women, the rural population, farmers, adolescents and young people and informal workers.
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