The National Bank and the Union of Banks signed a charter on financing women — Tazabek

Tazabek — Today, September 28, the National Bank and the Union of Banks of Kyrgyzstan signed the National Charter for the implementation of the Code of Financing for Women Entrepreneurs.

According to the National Bank, the charter defines the main approaches to implementing the code in the country: interaction of participants, procedure for joining, data collection and reporting. The National Bank is the national leader and national data aggregator, the Union of Banks is the national coordinator for the implementation of the code. The interaction of participants is carried out within the framework of the national coalition.

24 participants joined the code: 12 commercial banks, 10 microfinance organizations, the Guarantee Fund and the Association of Microfinance Organizations.

According to the press service, earlier changes were made to the regulations of the National Bank, including the concept of “women’s entrepreneurship”. Since March 2026, the regulator has been systematically collecting gender-disaggregated data as part of bank reporting.

The event was attended by representatives of the National Bank, the Ministry of Economy and Commerce, the EBRD, the Guarantee Fund, associations, the banking and microfinance sectors. Women entrepreneurs’ access to finance, the use of guarantee instruments and the use of gender analytics were discussed.

The WE Finance Code is an international initiative to expand finance for micro, small and medium enterprises owned and led by women. In Kyrgyzstan, the National Bank is implementing it jointly with the EBRD, the Union of Banks and participants in the code.