2011/FMP/FIIWG/001

Agenda

Submitted by: United States

/ APEC Financial Inclusion Working Group Meeting
Bangkok, Thailand
21-22 July 2011

APEC Financial Inclusion Working Group Meeting

Bangkok, Thailand

July 21 -22, 2011

July 21, 2011

8:30am Registration and coffee

9:00am Welcome –Thailand Ministry of Finance

9:15am Opening Remarks – Lois Quinn (USA)

9:30am Session I: Leadership Strategy Development

9:30am Leadership in Practice – Conoslidated Financial Inclusion I Strategies (Fireside chat)

·  Mexico -- Country experience (Christian Carreon)

·  Malaysia -- Country experience (Kamisah Abdul Kadir)

·  Philippines -- Country experience (Joselito Almario & Pia Roman)

·  Indonesia – country experience (Azka Subhan & Sri Noerhidajati)

10:10am Preliminary Leadership Schematic/ Framework

Christian Carreon (Mexico)

10:30am WG Dialogue: Reflections on experiences and the draft framework

Participants – working members & strategic partners

11:00am Break

11:30am Session II: APEC FII Leadership Strategy – Presentation & Outreach

11:30am Financial Inclusion Strategy -- The Message, Target Audiences & Outreach (Fireside chat)

·  AFI – NGO experiences (Raadhika Sihin)

·  JICA – Bilateral AID experiences (Qifeng Zhang)

·  ABAC – Private sector experiences (Twatchai Yongkittikul)

11:50am WG Dialogue: Refining & Packaging Leadership Strategy Outcomes

Participants – working members & strategic partners

12:10pm Work plan Presentation & Discussion

Participants – working members & strategic partners

12:30 pm Lunch & Preview of Upcoming FI Events in APEC

ABAC September Forum (Twatchai Yongkittikul)

Philippines September Workshop (Joselito Almario)

2:00pm Session III: Inclusion Friendly Government-to-Persons (G2P) Payments

2:00pm G2P Trends in APEC Economies (Fireside chat)

·  East Asia & Pacific, WB – Regional trends: G2P payments & Recipients (Nataliya Mylenko)

·  Chile -- country experience (Valentina Konow)

·  Payment Systems, WB --- Transition to electronic G2P (Hemant Baijal)

·  Philippines -- country experience (Joselito Almario)

2:30pm IAG G2P Guidelines – Principles and Tools (ongoing)

Hemant Baijal -- Payment Systems, The World Bank

2:45pm WG Dialogue: Reflections on the G2P Efforts

Participants – working members & strategic partners

3:15pm Break

3:30pm Session IV: APEC FII Inclusion Friendly G2P Payments – Outcomes & Outreach

3:30pm Target audiences – the decision makers and their goals and incentives (Fireside chat)

·  East Asia and Pacific, WB – Regional overview on decision makers (Nataliya Mylenko)

·  Asian Development Bank – MDB donor perspective (Qifeng Zhang)

·  Chile – finance ministry perspective (Valentina Konow)

·  Payment Systems, WB – Perspective on Central Bank/ FM Dynamic (Hemant Baijal)

·  ABAC – private sector perspective (Twatchai Yongkittikul)

·  Alliance for Financial Inclusion -- NGO Outreach (Raadhika Sihin)

4:15pm WG Dialogue: Refining and Packaging G2P Outcomes Participants – working members & strategic partners

4:45pm Work plan Presentation & Discussion

Participants – working members & strategic partners

5:15pm Adjourn for the day

July 22, 2011

9:00am Session V: Data: Testing & Implementing New Information/Data Gathering Methods

9:00am Information Gathering Approaches (Fireside chat)

·  East Asia & Pacific, WB --What’s available/ what’s needed -- WB (Nataliya Mylenko)

·  AFI – Progress report on G20’s data enhancement effort (Raadhika Sihin)

·  Mexico -- Country Experiences (Christian Carreon)

9:40am WG Dialogue: APEC FII Role, Outcomes & Delivery

Participants – working members & strategic partners

10:00am Work plan Presentation & Discussion

Participants – working members & strategic partners

10:30am Break

10:45am Session VI: October Outreach Workshop

10:45am Outreach techniques and experiences

Raadhika Sihin, Alliance for Financial Inclusion

11:00am WG Dialogue: Goals, Participants & Format

Participants – working members & strategic partners

11:30am Consolidated Work Plan and Next Steps

12:00pm Wrap-up