Filling the Data Gap on Digital Financial Literacy to Boost Digital Financial Transformation

During the design of UNCDF’s DFS4Resilience programme in the Pacific, it became clear that a gap existed in practical, up-to-date data on digital skills and digital financial literacy (DFL). The lack of data to create evidence-based initiatives to build these skills could lead to an ability to track progress, make programming decisions, and ultimately to unfulfilled opportunities for those left behind to fully leverage digital opportunities. To fill the gap, UNCDF as an accelerating partner in service to governments to achieve development agendas has developed and implemented standardized public-good DFL surveys in seven Pacific countries that measure levels of digital access and usage, competencies and DFS outcomes, providing a “leaner” mechanism for building a database, measurable over time and comparable between countries and target groups, whose results can be used to assess progress towards programme/project objectives, improve products and services, and inform policy. Join us for a discussion of survey results and how they are being applied in Fiji.