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  "title": "Workshop on Financial Access Data Collection and Usage",
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  "summary": "Back to top Qualifications Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, finance, statistics, or equivalent work experience.",
  "publishDate": "2025-11-18",
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      "heading": "Target audience and qualifications",
      "content": "- Target Audience:\n  - Government officials in central banks and other agencies involved in the compilation of supply-side financial access data and the formulation/implementation of financial inclusion policies.\n- Qualifications:\n  - Participants are expected to have a degree in economics, finance, statistics, or equivalent work experience.\n  - Participants' current job or responsibilities at work should be linked to the topic of the workshop."
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      "heading": "Course description",
      "content": "- The workshop will address key issues related to data collection and usage of the Financial Access Survey (FAS), the IMF's annual supply-side database on financial inclusion.\n- Coverage includes:\n  - The FAS data collection methodology in detail.\n  - The importance of FAS for policymaking and monitoring financial access and usage.\n  - Presentation of results of the FAS pilot exercises.\n  - Discussion of potential revisions to the FAS questionnaire based on pilot findings.\n- Peer learning is a central component:\n  - Opportunities for participants to engage in discussions.\n  - Opportunities to deliver presentations.\n  - Opportunities to share experiences with supply-side financial inclusion data collection and usage."
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      "heading": "Course objectives",
      "content": "- Upon completion, participants should be able to:\n  - Understand the nature and content of the FAS data.\n  - Grasp the detailed FAS methodology, including gender-disaggregated data and digital financial services information.\n  - Enhance FAS data collection and reporting through peer learning.\n  - Become familiar with the use of FAS data, including for tracking financial inclusion trends, benchmarking and policymaking."
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