Day 01 - May 17, 2022 | Digital Onboarding & Literacy
Welcome message | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Why is frugal innovation essential to women’s economic empowerment and digital financial inclusion?
Speaker: Asif Saleh, Executive Director, BRAC Bangladesh
Keynote address | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Fireside chat on how digital innovations can unlock an inclusive future for women – the future of gender-intentional financial inclusion and what we learned from the pandemic
Speakers: Shameran Abed, Executive Director, BRAC International; Greta Bull, Director, Women’s Economic Empowerment, BMGF
Digital onboarding for the poor: Where should business meet communities? | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Speakers: Khan Muhammad Saqiful Alam, Programme Manager for Trust and Safety, SA, TikTok; Priyanka Kapoor, Consulting Associate, BFA Global; Moonmoon Shehrin, Digital Cluster Lead, BRAC Microfinance; Immanuel Umukoro, Research Fellow, Lagos Business School
Moderator: Raiya Kishwar Ashraf, Manager, Innovation Ecosystem and Partnership, BRAC Social Innovation Lab
Design for her power: Tools that keep solutions gender-intentional | By IDEO.org | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Interactive workshop that engages participants in applying tools which can help make your digital solutions and linked services gender transformational. These tools are open-source, but here’s a chance to learn them from the makers!
Speakers: Hitesh Singhal, Design Lead, IDEO.org; Celestine Njuguna, Program Lead, IDEO.org
Digitisation tools for onboarding low-literacy users to DFS | By BSR HerProject | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Guided workshop to take participants through curricula, tech learning tools, and visual assets that have successfully supported wage digitisation in ready-made garments factories in Bangladesh.
Learn how these tools may support your audience too!
Speaker: Smita Nimilita, Bangladesh Country Representative, HERproject, BSR
A day in the life of a BRAC staff at the last mile | 360 video | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
What does a day in the life of a BRAC frontliner look like?
Over the last 50 years, BRAC has been reaching communities at their doorstep. At present, approximately 100,000 BRAC staff members are at the frontlines, bringing support to families and delivering essential services.
Join one of our field staff members in this virtual field visit as he goes on his daily routes, delivering crucial services directly to the community in a remote, hard-to-reach area of Bangladesh.
Closing highlights | First day | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Speaker: Kazi Prottoy Ahmed, Business Innovation Lead, Social Innovation Lab, BRAC
Day 02 - May 18, 2022 | Innovation & Entrepreneurship
Opening remarks | Second day | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Speaker: Salman Sabbab, Senior Manager, Innovation Ecosystem and Partnerships, Social Innovation Lab, BRAC
Super platforms and emerging mechanisms for women’s financial inclusion | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
A business world which is more inclusive of women is attainable, and now there are more tools to support them!
Platforms like Whatsapp, WeChat, and Messenger are enabling conversations, businesses and also payments – making it easier for new users and new communities to start-up businesses from scratch. What does this mean for women’s financial inclusion? Let’s hear it from the speakers.
Speakers: Fahad Ifaz, Co-founder and CEO, iFarmer; Afsana Zarin, Chief of Staff, ShopUp
Moderator: Shofi Taneem, Lead, Digital Cluster, Skills Development Programme, BRAC
Learnings from wage digitisation and digital services | By BSR Her Project | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Wage digitisation can be a massive step towards financial inclusion. But it’s more than just digitising payrolls. In this session, our partner BSR connects with partners to learn how they ensured the transition to digitally empower women and their organisations by linking them to relevant services.
Speakers: Mohammad Zahidullah, Head of Sustainability, DBL Group; China Rahman, General Secretary, Federation of Garments Workers; ATM Mahbub Alam, Executive Vice President and Head of Payroll Business, bKash; Zahangir Alam, Social and Labour Manager, Bestseller
Moderator: Smita Nimilita, Bangladesh Country Representative, HER project, BSR
What does it really cost to use digital financial services | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
‘Off-the-book’ fees and non-monetary costs pose a barrier to the uptake and continued usage of digital financial services. In this workshop, participants gain an understanding of the various methodologies available to measure the cost of digital financial services, and participate in a hands-on activity where they build their own mystery shopping research plans. Watch to know how.
Speakers: Xavier Giné, Lead Economist, Development Economics, World Bank; William Blackmon, Senior Research Manager, Financial Inclusion, Innovations for Poverty Action
Moderator: Tanvi Jaluka, Program Manager, Financial Inclusion, Innovations for Poverty Action
Barrier analysis: Women’s economic empowerment | By GRID Impact | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
The latest research in client segmentation and gender-barrier analysis, visualised like you have never seen before!
Speaker: Alexandra Fiorillo, Principal, GRID Impact
Closing highlights | Second day | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Speaker: Kazi Prottoy Ahmed, Business Innovation Lead, Social Innovation Lab, BRAC
Day 03 - May 19, 2022 | Policy To Practice
Opening remarks | Final day | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Speaker: Tanjina Anis, Lead, Social Innovation Lab, BRAC
How to make digital solutions and services gender-intentional | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
The bones of digital financial services (smartphones, ID documents, PINs) often limit access for communities living in low-income conditions, particularly women. In this session, we discuss how women can be placed at the centre of designing inclusive technology and finance solutions.
Speakers: Snigdha Ali, Bangladesh Programme Officer, Financial Services for the Poor, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; Nova Ahmed, Associate Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NSU; Gagandeep Singh Manchandaaggan, Market Engagement Manager, Connected Women, GSMA
Moderator: Masrura Oishi, Manager, Innovation Ecosystem and Partnership, BRAC
How to ensure digital financial inclusion in disasters and humanitarian crises | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
Financial inclusion amid crises is crucial but equally difficult. In this fireside chat, we explore the barriers to implementing digital financial models in the humanitarian sector; modalities that are already implemented and practised across the world, customising and contextualising digital financial services in the humanitarian context; and understanding data privacy, consent and agency while designing digital financial services for communities living in vulnerability.
Speaker: Jessica Stanford, Building Blocks Project Manager, World Food Program; Rumee Singh, Co-founder, Strategic Communication Executive, Rumsan
Moderator: Kuldeep Aryal, T4D Specialist, Social Innovation Lab, BRAC
Walk with us: Visiting a rural marketplace with Nasrin & Nazmunnahar | 360 video | R2FIF 2022 | BRAC
When you go shopping, how often do you have to request to be served For Nasrin and Nazmunnahar, at least ten times. Women’s financial inclusion doesn’t have a silver bullet. Unless restrictive norms against women are addressed, innovations fall short of providing access. What will having money achieve if women can’t buy what they need, when they need it? Join Nasrin and Nazmunnahar in this virtual visit, as they go on the simple task of cashing out mobile money and buying groceries at the local market.
What barriers can you spot in her journey?
Event closing highlights | Runway to FIF 2022 | BRAC
The digital financial services agenda for the future: How can the global south partners work together to build a more inclusive world?
Speaker: KAM Morshed, Senior Director, Advocacy, Innovation and Monitoring, BRAC
