A Primer on Financial Access for NGOs: Challenges and Remedies

As NGOs working in aid, development and peacebuilding continue to face significant financial access challenges, this session provides an overview of the current landscape, empirical data, and some of the progress made to date.
Moderated by Andrea Hall, Senior Manager of InterAction’s Together Project, this session includes:
- A basic overview of bank derisking as it impacts NGOs;
- A description of the current financial access landscape;
- A discussion of where the advocacy is focused, and where progress has been made in seeking systemic solutions, both in the U.S. and internationally;
- A description of actions taken by the U.S. government to alleviate bank derisking over the past three years;
- A brief discussion of multistakeholder dialogues; and
Steps NGOs can take in working with financial institutions.