Financial Inclusion for NGOs: Why should you care?

Restrictions, delays or denials of banking services and financial transfers are having devastating unintended consequences for people who depend on humanitarian aid to survive. The delivery of aid is being delayed for months or even blocked entirely, putting hundreds of thousands of lives at risk. Islamic Relief describes how smaller organisations are affected by the way that governments have interpreted internationally agreed standards has failed to recognize, or overstated, the actual risk of abuse by humanitarian organisations.